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Video: The Ray Harryhausen Creature List

State of the art, pre-CGI

The Ghost of a Flea
July 2011re: #82 Naso Tang As a 30-someodd-year-old man who's spent half his life in South Asia, you're wrong. One ascending generation and I have family remembers that personally experienced Partition. It's hours after the discussion, so I'm not going to ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 6:14 pm PDT • Views: 41,621

Every stop motion creature and special effect ever created by Ray Harryhausen, in one terrific mashup. (h/t:

The So Long Raving Freakazoid Open Thread

‘I can almost feel you’

Decider
July 2011I mean *now"

Charles Johnson

June 2011Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2:09 pm PDT • Views: 40,560

Open Letter to Jeff Bezos on Terminating CA Amazon Associates

Amazon uses sales partners as pawns in fight with CA government

Ming
July 2011re: #130 Obdicut I'm not sure "regressive" is the word for what I prefer. I generally prefer flat, uniform (same for everyone), SIMPLE taxation. My reason is that in reality, with our current "progressive" taxes, the rich pay LESS than ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 12:11 pm PDT • Views: 36,680

Video: The Very Best Moments of a Raving Freakazoid

Eleven minutes and forty seconds of Beck’s best

boredtechindenver
June 2011re: #9 Obdicut Obi, you are such a smark.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 10:09 am PDT • Views: 38,257

Pamela Geller Makes Excuses for Supporting Nazis

Geller is shocked - shocked! - that the English Defence League has Nazis in it

Mickey Blumental
June 2011Geller, the enemy doesn't need any more ammo to prove you're a hate monger lunatic.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 8:53 am PDT • Views: 41,646

Katrina and the Waves Tell Michele Bachmann to Knock It Off

Musicians not digging the Bachmann vibe

The Ghost of a Flea
June 2011re: #326 Fat Bastard Vegetarian ACK. Two days ago I discovered one of my friends has signed on for LaHaye's Apocalypse. Our conversation...and likely our friendship...ended when he used Sola Fide to justify his line-and-sinker acceptance of the "Left Behind" ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 7:59 pm PDT • Views: 38,728

British Branch of the ‘Anti-Jihad’ Movement in Full Meltdown

Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are oddly silent

Dom
June 2011re: #228 000G Nobody has hijacked LGF from what I can tell so even with her claim that the EDL has been hijacked, "doing a CJ" doesn't apply. The only people doing a CJ - ie breaking ties with extremists ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 5:48 pm PDT • Views: 42,485

Wednesday Afternoon Open

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
June 2011re: #227 talon_262 She was seriously flouncing because nobody said hi to her? That's sad.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 3:31 pm PDT • Views: 34,800

Tim Pawlenty, Climate Change Denier (and Creationist)

The anti-science party

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
July 2011re: #355 groovimus Methane isn't oil. And again, even if it were, it's moot: the burning of hydrocarbons, whatever their source, adds CO2 to atmosphere, which traps heat, which is causing AGW.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:26 am PDT • Views: 44,046

Michele Bachmann Uses Tom Petty’s Song Again

Not getting the message

syrius
June 2011I think it should be pointed out the song "American Girl" was used in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" ( en.wikipedia.org ) . It kinda of flows with the John Wayne Gacey Jr. gaffe the other day. I ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 9:49 am PDT • Views: 41,145

Tom Petty Tells Michele Bachmann to Knock It Off

Petty isn’t pleased

BongCrodny
June 2011The USDA reports that it costs around $225,000 to raise a child if born in 2010. That's roughly $13,000 a year through age 18. If you're earning $250,000 per year, that's about two weeks' take-home pay.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 8:39 pm PDT • Views: 47,354

Tuesday Night Open Registration

Leap into the mosh pit

OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
June 2011re: #268 Naso Tang Do you support the killing and eating of living things?

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 6:17 pm PDT • Views: 41,514

Massive Attack on Kabul’s Hotel Inter-Continental

At least 10 people known dead

Fat Bastard Vegetarian
June 2011re: #218 Killgore Trout Fuckin' Jimmah and Ice hangin' out in Central Park again?

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 3:23 pm PDT • Views: 41,142

Where Michele Bachmann Learned About the Founding Fathers: David Barton

Delusional alternate history with a theocratic message

SanFranciscoZionist
June 2011re: #35 fiveonefive There's both a pattern of hostility and unease about slavery, and a pattern of increasing financial, cultural and political investment in slavery. There would have been no need for the Civil War if the matter had been ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 3:05 pm PDT • Views: 41,474

American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer: Homosexuals Are Child Molesters

Just another blast of anti-gay hatred from the religious right

Petero1818
June 2011re: #47 NorthWhale I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the quote. But to take his syllogism all the way to the end, the one thing that is clear is that the overwhelming majority of sexual molestations ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 1:45 pm PDT • Views: 41,730

Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) Refuses to Admit She Was Wrong About Founding Fathers

Very weird behavior

Charles Johnson
June 2011Another dead thread hero. Stars in his eyes.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 10:45 am PDT • Views: 45,258

Overnight Open Thread

OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
June 2011re: #120 Killgore Trout I had a bit of fun with it, myself. (Not) Queer Like Me.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Monday, June 27, 2011 at 9:57 pm PDT • Views: 37,279

Stevie Ray Vaughan in Denmark, 1988

Voodoo Chile

Tricho
June 2011Notice he is using a left-handed guitar strung for right-hand play (tuning machines pointing down, but fat strings still on top), a visual allusion to Hendrix (composer of Voodoo Chile-Slight Return). Jimi (a left-hander in an era with very few ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Monday, June 27, 2011 at 4:13 pm PDT • Views: 43,184

Michele Bachmann Says, ‘I’m Like John Wayne’ in Hometown of John Wayne Gacy

Attempt at hometown pandering misfires embarrassingly

Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)
June 2011re: #256 jvic Um, okay. You mean, people are making money off of it? What will Muslims think if we involve Israel? Presumably this question was never asked, at least not as bluntly as I phrased it. Was it ever ...

Charles Johnson

June 2011Monday, June 27, 2011 at 1:25 pm PDT • Views: 46,018

Video: Republicans Shun Science

A scary detachment from reality

OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
June 2011re: #70 lostlakehiker Of course it's fair. It's a historical fact. As for amendments, last I checked, nobody but conservatives want the 14th Amendment gutted clarified, and the 16th and 17th axed.

Charles Johnson

June 2011Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:32 pm PDT • Views: 41,169