WTF is going on (and other general WTFs)?

[Sally, la reina]

Oh. I've only ever seen them in the Pacific Northwest.

[~Geektastic~]

Sally wrote: "Oh. I've only ever seen them in the Pacific Northwest."

Maybe I'm confusing the areas. I only know about them because of Dirty Jobs.

[~Geektastic~]

Thanks, Misha. Maybe I had them confused with quahogs.

[Félix]

I had them confused with sweathogs.

[Cynthia]

They look like they'd need a good scrubbing before they were cooked.

[~Geektastic~]

Félix wrote: "I had them confused with sweathogs."

I'm always getting mollusks confused with a young John Travolta, too.

[Phil]

I get Sally confused with Arnold Horshack.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The previous incident was American, wasn't it? The flight attendant who had the attack of insanity. I do feel terrible for someone who has an attack like that. I mean, there is something awry with these two people. A medical problem. Maybe they were off their meds. And now the tapes of them screaming will live on in perpetuity.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Alicia Silverstone's baby feeding. I'm not going to watch the video....because I don't want to see regurgitation and because I don't care.

The video shows her feeding her child Bear Blu like he's...a baby bird. She chews of his food and then -- how else to say this? -- deposits the masticated morsels in his mouth.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/enterta...

[janine]

Someone wrote "Juden" on the sidewalk, with an arrow pointing to my front door. WTF?

[Félix]

Weird. I was reading that neo-nazis are having a resurgence. Scary.

[Félix]

Be safe, Dutch.

[janine]

I'm mostly surprised.

[Félix]

I would be, too.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Uh, WOAH. WTF??????

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Oops, I misspelled WHOA.

[Cynthia]

janine wrote: "Someone wrote "Juden" on the sidewalk, with an arrow pointing to my front door. WTF?"

Frightening.

[[deleted user]]

Are you even Jewish, Janine?

[janine]

No.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gnostic?

[scherzo♫]

Missouri Republican: 'Legitimate rape' rarely causes pregnancy

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/20...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy from rape) is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in a clip posted to YouTube by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

Akin added: “But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.”

Akin issued a statement Sunday afternoon saying he misspoke.

I'm so glad there's legitimate rape, because here I was thinking all these years rape is illegitimate. Also I'm glad the female body shuts down and prevents pregnancy. That is a huge fucking relief! What is the science behind that, I wonder? How does the body know it's rape rather than consensual? Oh, the mysteries of life.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

WaPo commenter:
To most people, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is a terrifying dystopian novel about religious control of women run mad.

To the GOP, it's an instruction manual.

[Cheri]

"..shut that whole thing down.” What thing? Legs? Ovaries? Uterus? Penis? The thang thing?

[janine]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Gnostic?"

No, just protestant.

[Scout]

Akin didn't misspeak. He's ignorant. Appallingly so.

Here's a WTF moment. My neighbor's husband, Charles, was walking his lab after dark a couple of weeks ago on the street parallel to ours, which he's been doing since they moved in 12 years ago. The new neighbor there, a white guy, shouted out to him as he passed that he needed to take his black ass and his black dog home. WTF? There was a confrontation which ended with Charles walking away. This isn't something I would ever have thought would happen in my neighborhood. Charles filed a police report and, thankfully, nothing further has happened.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gross.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Prince Harry let himself be photographed nekkid....in Vegas? Oof. This dude is going to impregnate some chick. Some day soon. Some totally random chick that he drunkenly, accidentally got nekkid with.

[Stina]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Prince Harry let himself be photographed nekkid....in Vegas? Oof. This dude is going to impregnate some chick. Some day soon. Some totally random chick that he drunkenly, accidentally go nekkid..."

Yikes!!
I liked the part where the palace had no comment at this time. Do you think they were too busy kicking his stupid ass?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I think they recognize they can't control him.

[Scout]

Good for him.

[Cynthia]

I heard a comment by a British royal-watcher that this impish behavior is all part of why the Brits love their Harry.

[evie]

Are they wild about Harry?

[[deleted user]]

And, is Harry wild about them?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No, I won't post them. I did look at them though. TMZ thoughtfully covered his butt crack with a red star, and Harry himself had his hands covering his pee-pee.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Are they a non-issue because it's Harry party boy, rather than William? What if it were Kate playing nude billiards? I wouldn't call them a non-issue myself, I mean the guy is butt naked (though covering his wee-wee). And he is butt naked with a butt naked girl in both pix! But maybe that is just my Puritan roots speaking and we should all post butt naked pix of ourselves playing billiards right now.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Apparently the Brit tabloids aren't even printing the pictures? Now that is surprising.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Don't wear out the nude-google button, Barb.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Frank Szabo wants the people of Hillsborough County, N.H., to know that if they elect him as sheriff this year, he will do whatever it takes to stop doctors from performing abortions — even if that means using deadly force.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo...

Szabo said he believed sheriffs were granted special powers under the Constitution. That means, he said, he would be empowered to arrest or even use deadly force against doctors for providing legal abortions for women.

“I would hope that it wouldn’t come to that, as with any situation where someone was in danger,” Szabo said. “But again, specifically talking about elective abortions and late term abortions, that is an act that needs to be stopped.”

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Heh. Gawker did an illustration for us.

[Cynthia]

WTF? Some douchebag Mr. King of the world tried to rip me a new a#hole in Target yesterday! What? Don't you know we're Iowans, buddy? We are NICE.

[[deleted user]]

People care WAY too much.

[Scout]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Are they a non-issue because it's Harry party boy, rather than William? What if it were Kate playing nude billiards? I wouldn't call them a non-issue myself, I mean the guy is butt naked (though ..."

William's married. Kate's married. I don't see the big deal about a single guy playing strip pool. The photos aren't salacious.

[[deleted user]]

Harry's JOB as the younger brother is to be a rascal. Makes William look that much better. Take Henry VIII for example, he wasn't raised to be King, he was meant to be the younger brother...

[[deleted user]]

By the way:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...

True? Lie? Did he read Room and get ideas, or did SHE read it and make up a giant whopper? Cause, other than the shed; it sounds an awful lot like copy-catting...

[ms.petra]

I agree Scout. I am sure much worse happened before all this technology and 24/7 media.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Amelia wrote: "By the way:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...

True? Lie? Did he read Room and get ideas, or d..."

Room is based on real-life situations. Not the other way around. These things do happen.

[[deleted user]]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Amelia wrote: "By the way:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...

True? Lie? Did he read Room and ..."

I have read/watched about actual cases, but never with a kid. And, never when they're let outside and neighbors see/hear them etc. Seemed fishy.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It's like they just can't help themselves......

State Rep. Alan Clemmons, who authored the South Carolina voter ID law being argued in federal court this week, admitted on Tuesday he welcomed a racist email he received from a friend in support of the law.

Clemmons replied with “Amen” and “thank you for your support” after a man named Ed Koziol wrote that black and poor voters would “be like a swarm of bees going after a watermelon” if the legislature offered a reward for obtaining identification cards, according to McClatchy.

At the trial, Clemmons called the response “poorly considered.”

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo...

[Félix]

At the trial, Clemmons called the response “poorly considered.”

YA THINK?