http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=351 Sonic Scream would be a pretty rad band name BTW

“As someone who worked years in the service industry, I would not want such a person defending me – such an attitude only makes the irritable person worse, only gives cause to take it out further on service people. If he wishes to engage in a larger goal of publicly shaming horrible customers, there are more effective and less antagonistic ways to do so (assuming public shaming is a good method, which I’m doubtful of). “We know nothing about ‘Diane’. We don’t know what state of mind she was in, beyond his analysis and judgement – and public humiliation. We know what she allegedly said – and even what she said did not warrant the response Gale proceeded to mete out, premising it strangely on defending being polite . . . But Gale’s bullying and childish tactics are not the worst parts: it’s the audience, the followers, the media, cheering on, welcoming the suffering and distress of another innocent person . . . Gale’s actions directly affected another person and they appear fuelled by the sick love people have with digital nastiness . . .” – Tauriq Moosa, in The Guardian [CJ: I would add here that not only was this dude’s public ridicule of ‘Diane’ immensely and needlessly mean-spirited and antagonistic, it was also immensely and gratuitously misogynistic.]

Confirmation of 68,000,000 year old soft tissues encased in petrified fossils. Because dinosaur tissues were embalmed in their own blood. 1. Technological civilization is awesome. 2. The world is so fucking metal.

Bro I am stoked! http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=353

?! #$&@! #WDE

http://forward.com/articles/146279/lchaim-a-bad-grammatical-error/ (A.: No, it is not.)

Ha, ha, I’m the President of the United States, I can’t be arsed to pardon Leonard Peltier, but I sure can crack some jokes about “pardoning” a damn bird. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/11/27/obama-thanksgiving-turkey-pardon-service-event/3766919/

Metastatic Militarism.

“‘So the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our [sic] laws,’ he [Barack Obama] continued.” If laws command injustice, then those laws *ought* to be violated. There is no higher law than human rights or common decency. The sight of the most privileged man on the face of the earth lecturing disenfranchised immigrant families about how powerless he is over the actions of agencies that are directly responsible to him, and talking about “easy ways out” while he continues a relentless war on immigrants, with the excuse that he’s Just Following Orders, is appalling. Barack Obama’s record on immigration has been shameful, and his endless political excuse-making for pursuing record levels of deportations, is despicable. #NotOneMore