The Big Bad Blog has been very safe for work of late. We really have no intention to be. But we have been so very safe for work that we feel that we should mention — at the top — that is a vagina tuxedo on this page.

If this isn’t safe for work, we don’t understand your workplace.

In any case, to kick things off properly this morning, we begin with some giraffe pornography.

(Photo by Ed Zipco. Tuxedo by Hilary Olson. More here.)

Everything that you wanted to know about sloths, but were afraid to ask.

The people over at Science Based Medicine have started calling the Complementary and Alternative Medicine industry Big Placebo. I cannot help but be amused by this. Today they take on the claim that modern medicine (aka “Big Pharma”) does not cure anything, but “merely” manages diseases.