The Subtle Dangers of Online Dating Video Profiles

A little Delta to brighten your day:

Your Future Husband from Bradley Jackson on Vimeo.

DADT Humor

The graphic below may or may not be circulating among Powerpoint presentations given at local military CC calls:

Human Ventriloquist Dummy

On a lighter note:

Joel Demos for Congress

Gave me a giggle:

 

H.T.:  Ace.

Belle on Badboys

From the SecondCityNetwork:

Mental Health Break: Simon's Cat

If you have a cat, then this behavior will look familiar:

This is actually a series of videos, all of them pretty good.

From The Onion Crawl:

New police forms allow suspects race to be designated as “Happens to be Black”.

Friday Funnies: Daddy Longlegs

Gave me a giggle:

· Stories about children and their views of the world are always touching.

· A father watched his young daughter playing in the garden.

· He smiled as he reflected on how sweet and pure his little girl was.

· Tears formed in his eyes as he thought about her seeing the wonders of nature through such innocent eyes.

· Suddenly she just stopped and stared at the ground.

· He went over to her to see what work of God had captured her attention.

· He noticed she was looking at two spiders mating.

· 'Daddy, what are those two spiders doing?' she asked..

· 'They're mating,' her father replied.

· 'What do you call the spider on top?' she asked.

· a DaddyLonglegs,' her father answered.

· 'So, the other one is a Mommy Longlegs?' the little girl asked.

· As his heart soared with the joy of such a cute and innocent question he replied, 'No dear. Both of them are Daddy Longlegs.'

· 'The little girl, looking a little puzzled, thought for a moment, then lifted her foot and stomped them flat.

· 'Well", she said, "that may be OK in California , but we're not having any of that shit in Minnesota.

Mental Health Break: "Come to the USA"

Meh. Kinda funny. Mostly depressing.

“Obama at the Bat”

Meh.

Mental Health Break: “The Government Can!”

I’m pretty sure this has made the rounds before, so apologies to whoever I forgot posted it first.

Tim Hawkins has a lot of funny videos on YouTube worth checking out.

Mental Health Break

Real fly-bys that TOTALLY break the FAA's 500 foot rule:

Giggle of the Day

H.T.: Ace.

Who Benefits?

Here is a question I posted over at Steve’s place regarding his coverage of Obama’s attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District:

Who benefits?

I mean, it's easy to see who will be hurt: White and Asian students (and above-average children of any race) who use magnet/charter/AP programs to extract a decent education from LAUSD; their families who then have to abandon the public schools and/or pack up and move to communities with no minorities to disparately impact; and the LAUSD tax base. Meanwhile, the minority students themselves will not be helped by this, and will probably be harmed in the long run.

Politically speaking, this appears to be a Democrat administration pouncing on a heavily Democrat jurisdiction. Granted, it's hard to see how it hurts Democrat fortunes in California -- whatever centrists start leaning Republican will be offset by white-flight -- but I don't see how it helps, either.  Nationally, it will attract the notice and ire of any public school parents in school districts with substantial minority populations, but aren’t these already heavily Democrat?

So . . . why is Obama doing this? It's very difficult to see the upside for him or his party.

UPDATE:  One possibility crosses my mind:  this represents Obama’s effort to force LAUSD to re-introduce bilingual education.  In theory, this will benefit professional Hispanics, who like keeping their people in a linguistic ghetto.  But Hispanics are already heavily Democrat, so the upside to Obama has got to be small.  And I’m not sure it will work:  English immersion is in the California constitution, and LAUSD couldn’t officially abandon it even if it wanted to.

Men with a Plan

Mild content warning.

Mental Health Medley

I'm clearing out some Megan McArdle RSS backlog, and a couple of posts are worth repeating:

Cats!

Don't call the SPCA: