l.p. - luminous pondering - hmm...

So, another year and once again this farce carries forth - for everyone aged 4 and less to be deceived and have their hearts thoroughly crushed by a Coca-Cola guzzler (with a spotless beard - somehow) once they hit the 5 year mark... NORAD continues in the awkward footsteps of CONAD (man, they really did well to change their acronym; a myriad multilinguals and I can think of a million puns to make with that ''CONAD'' thing...!  It stood for '' Continental Air Defense Command''  somehow - don't ask how...! You may ask how and most especially and importantly why  they are tracking down Ol' Kris Kringe since the late 50's at least... Is it because ol' man Santa is a Commie?  Is it because he's a threat to our National Defense...?  Pardon - North American Continental Defense - as it is the U.S.A. *and* Canada together in this thing and, until proven otherwise, these two are still two distinctive countries, or so they say... But we are d...

What is the problem here - the gap between their two front teeth somehow created a vacuum that got all the way up to their brains and sucked in most of the grey matter to be found there...? Duh! How could the brains behind sempiternally trendy brand ''THE GAP'' (yeah, we know it's not ''THE'' GAP but just ''the GAP'' - so don't get your socks all in a bundle over it now, you hear?) - how could they?!?  Actually, the question is not ''how could they do this'' but really ''how could they NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT IT REALLY MEANT... originally, that is!'' For those in need of a HISTORY COURSE FOR THE COMPLETELY IDIOTIC NUMBSKULL DUMMY - here is one . And here, right here, is another:

And so it is B.A.D. - and what have *you* done? Hmm?  HMM? This cool thing called a ''social media badge widget''  (by StressFreeSites!) was to be found on the lower left corner of their webpage - but it is clearly embeddable exclusively on Wordpress blogs - and so it has me thinking... How can it truly be called ''stress free'' when it infuriates ME and EVERYONE ELSE that wanted to embed this thing onto HERE... for example... HERE being a good old-fashioned, slightly archaic (perhaps) Blogger blog!   And Stress Free Sites (SFS - hmm?) has the gull to ask on their site if we are, in fact, feeling stressed...? OF COURSE WE ARE - AND YOU  ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING TO BETTER THAT SITUATION, DESPITE YOUR BEAUTIFUL PROMISES...!!!  Personally, I am way fed up with all manners of widgets, great and small: the damnable things fail you, always, sooner or later.  Why bother going through so much trouble, accessing your template, finding just the right spot and ri...

Why did the ninny NASA name their latest drone  ''Curiosity'' of all things...?!? Of all possible names for it, couldn't they have gone with  something more... valiant, awe-inspiring, noble perhaps?  Something like ''Searcher'' or ''Explorer'' -  names were taken already, eh?  Or they just lacked that latest brand of  ''All-American Oomph''  that was so eagerly sought for here...  Another fine way to misuse enormous sums of cold hard cash  that could have done a hell of a lot of good right down here  on terra firma - it only there was a will for that...  Only in America indeed  can one find all the arguments for such a waste of funds,  time, effort and energy  not to mention media coverage  AND also find so many amusing  derisive and right-on lampoons  of the very same endeavour  questioning with style  the very heart of the matter  and rai...

No wonder the left and the right are so merciless with one another in the political arena: it is but a reflection of a much more profound conflict that is going on... An inner conflict. One that lays waste to billions of our brain cells each decade that goes by, as that is exactly its battleground of choice and by predilection: inside our craniums' gray matter... Gray or colourful (which doesn't mean to say ''gray or gay'' - at all. Don't let the picture below influence you into seeing that certain rainbow's colours where they aren't all there at all...!) those are the two camps, the two trains of thought, the two tangents. And only one can totally prevail, although we oscillate between the two camps, sometimes leaning towards one, at other times espousing the aspects of the other. So, which one are you  - like, most of the time? Catalyzing Change Liked  · eon s ago, on FB, of course... We are ALL left brain and right brain. ...

Now, before we get to it - DON'T BE LIKE THE CROCS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC! DON'T GO FOR MY THROAT! My intent is to critique, to indulge here in  an objective review of the entertaining and educational (not to mention morally acceptable) value of said material, as also in the advent of objective and 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.   Aye, everything I will momentarily do here is completely in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 - read it and weep! (For more information, why don't you just go  there  already, hmm?) Thus, as this practice is entirely covered by the FAIR USE law cited above, there is nor reprisal possible, pals! I fear no one anyways... So now that THAT is clear - let us proceed and show the damn thing already! National Geographic Liked  · eon s ago   A wildebeest tussles with a crocodile  in an epic submission to the  National Geogra...

In 2007 Claire Lomas was thrown from her horse, breaking her neck, back, and ribs, and puncturing her lung. It left her paralyzed from the chest down.  On May 8th, she completed the London Marathon after 16 days. She did so with the assistance of a 'bionic suit' that helps people with lower-limb paralysis walk and stand.  Lomas entered the marathon to raise money for spinal research and she did jus t that, raising almost $130,000. Official rules state that she won't get a medal or have her time entered officially because the race must be completed on the same day. However, she still gets a special trophy and 15 other runners that also completed the marathon gave her their medals as well - her victory lies entirely elsewhere though. Her triumph is that of the human spirit amidst tragedy and trial. Anyone so afflicted could have just shriveled up and cocooned oneself, unable to cope with it. Not her. Claire Lomas is  truly a remarkable example of courage, determinat...

No time to waste watching what's on ''primetime'' - so they thought they'd help out by serving it all up to you on a not-so-silver screen platter with ''Primetime In No Time.'' Makes complete sense.  Watch some high-and-lowlights now: Whether it's by recapping the moves (like Jagger?) on ''Dancing With The Stars'' or the tunes (like Jagger's - sometimes) on ''The Voice'' - or giving a semi-detailed blow-by-blow account on what went on on reality TV trash shows (trashing them while they're at it; absolutely) such as ''The Pitch'' (the real-life version of Mad Men  they say) or ''Celebrity Apprentice,'' recounting who got eliminated and who inched closer towards world domination in the process... Primetime In No Time promises to keep *you* informed of aaaaaaaall that's been happening - and that you've most likely been avoiding w...

ALL THIS TALK OF 99% VERSUS 1%... And today, is Earth Day, is it not? Got us thinking about some other perspective, some other significance there could be out there for those very same, exact percentages... And here it is, courtesy of The History Channel... 99% of the species on the planet died out already! WE ARE THE 1% ALRIGHT - THE 1% LEFT AFTER THE LAST GREAT EXTINCTION! So maybe we can stop our petty bickering amongst ourselves, cease all the silly little subdividing into classes and social groups and, maybe -just maybe- we can TRY and d something about trying and avoid THE NEXT GREAT EXTINCTION...? Hmm? Lest it is more like the next great purge of the good ol' planet Earth - it gets disinfected every once in a while...? Food for thought...! (NOTA BENE: the video here is but part ONE of TWELVE - studying the seven biggest threats to humankind (although the uploader calls them 'the seven deadliest treats to humanity' - cool) so do yourself a favor and look up the six o...

As much as I dislike admitting it, it is true: Between the two extremes that are represented so well by Ron Paul and Mitt Romney, we would have THAT: a not-so hostile, amicable even, foreign intervention? Hmm... Maybe Ah-nold should be considered, after all: for, if we open up the doors to the foreign possibilities, we'd rather have with (an alleged) backbone in the Oval Office, not some sissy from up north... eh? No offense, "cannots"...! ;-)

Is it a good tactic, I wonder, to blackout in protest of something that might permanently black things out all over... hmm? Wikipedia decided to go dark for 24 hours (in order to "raise awareness" apparently - one supposes that a simple banner/message on top of the page, whichever page is chosen, would not have sufficed?) so dark we go to protest the fact that U.S. Congress is merely discussing at this time the possibility of passing some restrictive legislation that would limit access to free stuff on the web, like we're all used to it by now... Wikipedia® chose to go dark indeed on the 18th of the first month of the ominous year of 2012 - and it is all for our own good, of course. Their encyclopedia articles have become the easy-access/easy-solution for any-and-all interrogations that we might have had, at any time during our cyber-lives - and to be met with a dark screen and a sinister message (though the hyperlink "learn more" does lend it a hopeful twist) ...