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There’s been a heap o’ loose talk around Mayberry about the new health care reform law. Barney Fife’s friend Sara has pore Aunt Bea plumb scairt to death, and lil’ Opie, he cain’t hardly sleep a wink.

Let’s all just simmer down here, now, and see what Sheriff Andy has to say about this:

More here.

Linked images from AndyGriffithShow.net and A Mayberry State of Mind (don’t miss the recipes).

 

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Upon hearing the news that Laurence Fishburne’s daughter Montana is releasing a hardcore sex tape, I initially planned to leave the story alone. I mean, it’s a free country. She can suck d*ck on camera if she wants. However, once I heard the reason why Montana Fishburne, a.k.a. “Chippy D” chose to make a sex [...]

Yesterday I posted a vid of bunny show jumping on Facebook and thought it was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. (Video posted below for those of you who missed it.)

Today, AgtOrange sent me something even cuter than that, a vacation company for your stuffed animals. Now why didn't I think of that?

https://www.toytraveling.com/index.php?lng=en&matrix=home

Cutest thing eva!

The State of Arizona recently took time out from coining its own currency and making foreign policy to pass its own immigration law, known as SB 1070. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton blocked implementation of several key provisions because they would pre-empt federal authority and impose an undue burden on legal immigrants and visitors.

The judge also determined that Arizona used two ineligible players in 2007-8 and must vacate all wins involving them, eliminate a scholarship for 2012-13, and spend two years on probation.

Oh, wait. That was the NCAA ruling on Arizona basketball.

 

Read the full injunction and NCAA details.

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A guy with an irritating manner pushes his way into a Metro car, sits down and begins talking. It’s mostly incoherent gibberish, but then he says something that was as totally fascinating as it was believable, writes the DC Universe. The post: Jesus, not even Lee Majors pulled that off…

Monument fans: The most reviled public statue ever erected. Eye Level.

The final burger rankings at City Girls World

The Veganista is convinced she is the woman on the cover of Consumer Reports.

Footnotes: Salt is a great escapist movie to cool the summer heat. It gets a B+.

Four art shows opening tonight (Friday). And Now, Anacostia, including East of the River: 4th Annual Juried Exhibit.

The talented and always colorful Reni Lane will be playing tonight at Iota. One of my favorite artists to see live, her music is mesmerizing in person and is perfect for remixing. In fact, she offers a few free remixes of her songs for free here. She will probably go on about 9pm-ish and open for the Horse Feathers.

Last night I tried to outsmart myself, yet still ended up looking like an idiot. I’ve gone all day long thinking that my cell phone battery was dead since I left the charger in a work conference room. Once I finally got a chance to go in there and plug it in, the screen said [...]

Copyright © BiotechBlog, partner of DrugPatentWatch, and a product of thinkBiotech The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, where I am on the board of directors, is hosting an Emerging Technologies Roundtable: August 13, 2010 – “Synthetic Biology: What’s the Agenda?” Synthetic biology has hit the headlines yet again. The J. Craig Venter Institute’s recent [...]

The Scarry Mommy contemplates the conundrum of being a stay at home mom vs. going back to work.

Snarkshelf contemplates the vice in coveting thy neighbor’s BMW… among other things.

The Prince of Petworth contemplates the neighborhood ramifications of a new DC brewery opening in Shaw.

The blogger behind At Least I’m Enjoying the Ride contemplates the unassailable perfection that is dinner at the Inn at Little Washington (it would take the bulk of this page to list all of their major accolades so you just need to trust the opinion of  someone who gets paid to make such assessments that I am correct on this matter.)

WashingTina contemplates her attachments to inanimate objects but most especially the her first thing-love – a candy apple red Ford Mustang convertible with a really big engine and big personality too.  Her name was Flash.

Neurotic in Ashburn contemplates the complexity of dealing with emotionally damaged men.

Ed. Note: Yes, as I wrote this submission, I clearly had some fascination with contemplation or its nominal form.

It’s time for me to get a real logo for this site. What better way, than with a contest? I design logos and sites all the time, yet I tend to struggle in that department when it comes to making MY OWN stuff look good. I used to think that it’s because I’m my own [...]

The recent CEO-juggling at PB may have distracted you from an alarming news item. Mike Williams, an electronics technician for Transocean, reported that the alarm for the Blowout Preventer valve (BOP) on the Deepwater Horizon drill rig was intentionally disabled to avoid waking the crew with false alarms.

The result: no alarm for the real emergency, which cost 11 lives. A similar alarm bypass at the Upper Big Branch Mine killed 29 miners in an explosion, notes Johnny Kilroy.

 It gets worse. A supervisor told Mr. Williams that the entire Transocean fleet of drill rigs runs the alarms in bypass.

The Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer had not been inspected since 2000. The BOP was modified in China. The vessel was in use for nine straight years but never drydocked for refit and repair, so it was full of work-arounds.

And there may be another culprit: Bill Gates. Among the glitches besetting the Deepwater Horizon computer system: the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), a Microsoft classic.

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iPhone and iPad users: If you’ve had enough of the complete bugginess of the WordPress App you need to give this one a try. At $2.99 it’s not as cheap (free) as the WordPress app but BlogPress (iTunes link) actually works! You just enter the type of blog you have (WordPress self-hosted blogs still use the WordPress setting), your username, password and site address. That’s it!

My site was giving me error messages until I enabled the XML-RPC feature under Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing but now all is well. Holy crap! It’s like the future!

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Eat More Drink More may have finally convinced me to go to a non-metro accessible part of Virginia with this review of Trummers on Main.

A group of lawyers in downtown DC is suing a burger joint for creating too much “beefy smoke”. Ummm… what? Washington City Paper has the oh so ridiculous details.

Farm Fresh Meat encourages us to “all pledge to stop checking our email for a couple hours and watch some good old fashioned TV.”

A group of Marines and Navy Seals fly the flag at a beach and it draws people into conversation. Midcourt writes: That is when it struck me … that these people coming up to us, sharing their stories of their sons, brothers and in one case her husband, were bonding with their loved ones through us. This well told story is titled, What does “nothing to do” mean to you?

Giving a tour to a zillion Boy Scouts on the hottest Saturday of the year SOUNDS like it should have been miserable, but DC Like a Local explains why it was actually one of the most pleasant.

What would you do if your child was referred to as “broken”? Something “needing to be fixed”? The Big Piece of Cake maintains that her son is not a piece of equipment needing a replacement part.

Don't miss Katie Herzig's performance at Iota tonight at 9pm. I first saw her perform when she toured with Ten Out Of Tenn a few years ago. I'm looking forward to hearing the live rendition of her hit Hologram. Opening for her tonight is Paul Dempsey.

Today I learned that I know a grown man with an ankle tattoo. The guilty party was wearing loafers with no socks on, so this GROSS violation of #ManLaw was in plain sight, visible to the entire world. My first thought upon noticing the sockless style travesty was “Damn. I had no idea that he’s [...]

Join me at tonight's outdoor movie showing of Star Trek: First Contact in Crystal City! It seems like we've gotten a slight break from the heat wave after the storm, so this seems like a great activity to take advantage of the outdoors.

This is a summer long event happening every Monday at sundown until August 16. This year's theme is Star Trek and every week is a different movie, each in chronological order.

Tonight features an extra special people watching event: a Star Trek Costume Contest!

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A loyal Brutalism reader kindly sent along the following Facebook status update that someone  posted to her wall (in all seriousness) this weekend:
Which, of course, made me question the following:

a) Was Camp Buttpirate already full when you tried to enroll lil Matthew? Did your vacation schedule conflict with the dates for Camp Assjockey? Was Camp Rumpranger too expensive?

b) Do you really think knowing someone is going to be the biggest cause for concern for young Matthew?

c) Does "choosing the top bunk" mean the same thing at Camp Ramsbottom as it does at other summer camps?

When Matthew comes home and asks for Mexican S'mores "just like they made at camp," you have only yourself to blame.

A Bike Courier’s Bad Day. The life of a DC courier and lindy hopper. A former programmer tells his story.

This isn’t a metaphor, it’s a photo: Woman on the ledge. Fat Biscut.

I might be a cougar. Sorry about that. She writes: I was enjoying myself, my burger, and the good view of perfect bone structure. Then the conversation moved to weekend plans, I told him that I try not to think that far ahead in my life, and he told me that his birthday is this coming Saturday.

Inferno antidote or a salad dressing with honey, lime, grapefruit … Bicycle Girl: One Girl, One Life, One Bike.

DC Dept of Motor Vehicles doesn’t get the license right. Photo of results. The life of MB.

There’s a nice new two-way bike lane in the median of Pennsylvania Ave., writes Note to Self. Photo.

DC in 50 Days. A long vacation that’s now at day 33.