Strippers? Pornography? This morning coffee is going to be popular with the search engines.
We begin with pornography. Lyndsey G shares her thoughts about the impact of pornography on our sex lives. It is a fantastic look at how our environment shapes our expectations, and face-coating climaxes. Here’s a particularly fantastic excerpt:
As recently as the ’80s and early ’90s, facials weren’t all that common, but to look at porn today you’d think some Porn Pope had issued a Pop-Shot Bull decreeing that facials were the only proper type of cumshot and must be used in Blue Films unto boredom.
(Solar powered airplane Solar Impulse in flight, piloted by Andre Borschberg. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini. Found at The Big Picture.)
Churchgoers picketing a strip club? Not morning coffee material. Strippers responding by picketing a church? That gets our attention.
Finally, the science of baby names … or at least baby initials. If they spell something good, your child will live longer. Spell something bad, there may be an early death. So avoid baby UGH, and go for baby ACE.
In Australia, muggers chased a man into an alley to mug him … only to be ambushed by ninjas.
(via Sober in a Nightclub)
Airlines continue to compete to see who can provide the worst possible service to their customers. Lowering the bar this week is Southwest Airlines, which now classifies the mechanical breakdown of their fleet as an Act of God, meaning that they classify it in the same category as the weather and wars … things they cannot control and refuse to be liable for.
Finally, if you like both dead animals and beer, then you probably need one of these beer bottles.
Astronomers thought they had it all worked out — how solar systems form, planets and all. They were wrong — it seems that nearly 25% of solar systems have a planet that moves in the “wrong” direction. Where “wrong” means “in a manner inconsistent with accepted theory”, rather than, you know, wrong.
(The Big Bad Blog does not know who to credit. FFFFound tells us it’s from this LiveJournal. But who made it?)
Richard Dawkins wants to have the Pope arrested for crimes against humanity. I’m guessing that I missed the point in which covering up abuse was classified as a Crime Against Humanity. I would think that the rape of children would have to be a “systemic practice” for this to stick, and whatever you might think of the Pope or the Catholic Church, that’s reaching a bit.
A new low in academia? A professor (or, perhaps, his wife) has allegedly been taking an aim at his rivals by trashing them in Amazon reviews.
(Crayons sculpted into the Chinese Zodiac by Diem Chau)
(Paralympic skier Ralph Green competes in the Giant Slalom. Photo by Hannah Johnston.)
Blind? Upset that you have never had an opportunity to solve a Rubik’s Cube? Here’s one in Braille.
An unfortunate discovery: Beer consumption is a factor in malaria. More beer? Or more mosquitoes? Here at the Big Bad Blog, we are on beer’s side. Always.
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