Well that's a good enough reason I guess

Palm Beach (in the worst state in the world)- Some guest of a fancy pants restaurant in the armpit of everywhere, Florida, decided he wanted the check until he didn't want the check anymore in which case he decided that he did not want the check so much, it was enough to break the waiters finger.  Or two.  Good enough reason you ask.  Good enough for that waiter to sue the crap out of said gentleman because this is the ideal situation for a court to award a million dollar settlement and I wouldn't say a word.  Certainly a better reason than hot coffee to the lap at least.

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Giant mess of dark matter

Austin- Scientists have created the largest scale rendering of dark matter across the universe, revealing a picture of the invisible stuff thought to represent 98 percent of all matter in the universe.

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I got an idea

Thinking about starting another blog so I will.  Been going through lots of old records and seeing some of the most beautiful, wonderful, scary, creepy, and all around weird images I ever did see.  So, it's old inappropriate record covers blog (which will have a better name) and it starts this week so look out team.  Now I've got two things to procrastinate on and not do. Here's a preview.

Buck Owens-Live at the Nugget: As ppulido points on rateyourmusic.com, Buck only plays six of the songs on the album but the whole shebang ends with Johnny B Goode so it's fine by me.  The weirdness level is fair but tempered by the fact that the Nugget, John Ascuaga's Nugget to be exact, most certainly had easy access to an elephant whose loyalty and affection need only to be bought by a bag of peanuts and a scotch.  Buck looks slightly terrified as he hangs on for dear life on the girdle around Bertha's head but he's putting on a lovely fake smile that warms the heart.  Random Rating: 4.3 which is a 3.8 with an added bump for the Billy Brown boots Buck is sporting.  Hell, maybe Billy even stole them.  Who is to say.

It's Friday so...

Let's give you a few of the newest stories for 2012, the last year we will be alive (jokes, I got jokes).  Let's start with the government's new cloaking device idea that doesn't invisible just a person or a place but rather an entire event (Touch Me).  I wish I could cloak every Tuesday.  I don't like them.  Ever.
Hey, we also had a little caucus voting down (or up) there in Iowa.  What a great time that was had by all.  What is also fantastic is that even with a record caucus turnout, only 8 percent of Iowans came out to cast their hand raise ballot.  Here is where that link would go but I can't seem to find it right now so you just have to believe me on this one.  Or not.  It will not hurt my feelings.
Here is another link host that I never thought I would share.  Fox had a great story this week about sea creatures living on the sea floor living off of chemicals from black smoke created volcanic hot vents beneath the ocean where temperatures can reach over 700 degrees (Touch Me).  Just one of those little things that might make you wonder why we don't turn a government agency (yes, this is a fight with NASA) down under water instead of always in the sky.  Underwater, that is the future.  Says me.
How about a little trip to space to watch the Earth rise up from behind the moon (Touch Me).  Ah, things that make you feel so minuscule in the grand scheme of things (and that is okay cause we are. Calm down with all the we are so important thing.  Down a notch or two).

Look at me

Alright, my twitter has now joined us on all my page of pizana so enjoy that too.  What more could you ask for from me?  Except nudie pictures but I shall not do that until I get 300,000 followers, I mean dollars.  Followers aren't paying for me to get away.  In the mean while, share my desktop photo with me. It's pretty, no?

The things we believe when we are told it is true

James Corbett always does a great job researching and finding facts on all things secret.  Please visit his site http://www.corbettreport.com/ just remember that it is not going to be uplifting.  These are the things we have to live with sometimes.  My favorite part of his reporting is a segment he does telling the real history of some the stories of our time.  The history of the taliban, events around September 11th (not crazy ideas of the events of the day.  Just all the scumbagery that was going on around at the time), and so on.  This week, it is the story of how we, the American people, get bamboozled into war.  Ah, the wonderful world of the war machine.

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Last year for us

Here we are 2012.  The year that the highly respectable National Enquirer has been saying the world was going to end (as far back as I can remember at the very least.  I always read them standing in the grocery store line.  Sometimes I need to know which celebrity as cellulite hanging out at the beach).  (Second note, I kid the NE. They did break the John Edwards story which also reminded me that I will never ever never think that a trial lawyer is a decent human being ever again).  There were good stories in 2011.  There were great stories in 2011.  Most importantly, I think that 2011 was the year that the turnaround for rich people doing devious stuff and us finding out about it is nearing instant and that is just about the best thing that could happen to try to keep some of those mofo's in check.  Now, don't get me wrong.  Since 2008, one group of Americans has made a bid to steal everything that isn't nailed down (and been very successful) so when things collapse, they will have more green paper to burn for kindling I guess but we know about this already.  It would have been nice to get angry beforehand and maybe stop some of the money going to people who don't need it but better late than never.  2011 was also the year that we got Fast and Furious program, a drunken used car salesman from Houston was accused of being an Iranian hitman, and to end the year, our fearless leader (our if you are a banker) decided to "with great reservation" approve the indefinite detention of American citizens if they are dubbed a "threat".  The problem with great reservation is that even if Obama doesn't abuse the law, what about the next guy or the one after that.  Constitutionalists crow about laws been written that go against the things the Founding Fathers had set forth.  That usually isn't true.  This time it is.  So, 2012, the end of the world (just to be clear, this is completely a joke. I'm not putting my eggs in the world's gonna end basket just yet) let's see if we can make it through.  Good luck.