"With the hectic pace and demands of modern life, many people feel stressed and over-worked. It often feels like there is just not enough time in the day to get everything done. Our stress and tiredness make us unhappy, impatient and frustrated. It can even affect our health. We are often so busy we feel there is no time to stop and meditate!"

I read the above mentioned excerpt on a website called "how to meditate dot com".  

I just don’t get this!  If I’m feeling overly stressed out and over-worked, its not my idea of stress release to sit in an uncomfortable position with my knees in the general vicinity where my boobs should go!  I mean really! 

"Our stress makes us unhappy, impatient and frustrated"? Nooooooooooo.. idiots make me unhappy, impatient and frustrated.  My stress is caused from the piddly-ass wage I make while having to DEAL with the idiots. 

"We are often so busy we feel there is no time to stop and meditate"?  Well of course there’s no time to stop and meditate, unless you count being in rush hour traffic at 5:45 p.m. and gazing up at the sky and saying out loud to yourself.. "you may NOT ram the back of her car to get her to use the long pedal on the right, you may NOT".  Now THAT’S meditation!

I think meditation is over rated.  How many of us would rather wrap our knees around our ears in a quiet field of flowers, or on a mat in our living room and just sit there?  What’s going on outside that you’re missing?  How many kisses could you get in with your spouse or significant other instead of getting a numb tail bone?  How many personal contacts could you make, with another person preferably, instead of listening to the sound of your own breath? 

Meditation………………. BAH! 

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I think I’m going to have nightmares tonight

Cred: ectoplasmosis

   Body modification is nothing new. There are the old standby: earrings, then tats, belly button rings, nose rings, and hundreds of other mods that vary from clever to obscene. But a few folks have revived a centuries-old art: scarification aka body carving, practiced by primitive tribes in various ways the world over, now coming to a mod shop near you!

   The artist actually slices off strips of your flesh to produce the permanent image on your skin. The finished art is striking to be sure, but, man, that’s gotta fucken hurt.

See more pics at propeller.com here.

Cred for the find to Drough from the Winextra Forums.

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"3 High school girls from Lewisboro, New York were suspended from school for saying the word “vagina” at a public reading, against the direction of the school’s staff. It took place last year, but I wish I’d seen it earlier."

   While I understand that educators have a gargantuan and usually contradictory responsibility, and respect the right of the school to determine what kind of content is permissible at school, I take deep offense at this. Since when is "vagina" a bad word? My kids (seven of them, thanks) knew the proper names for their body parts as soon as they were old enough to speak. None of this "hooey" and "dinky" and "va-jay-jay" bullshit in this house. If it’s a penis, you call it a penis. I don’t understand why parents will buy GTA for their 10 year olds, but turn red and yell at them if they speak the accepted medical term for a part of their bodies. Puritanism/PC gone bad, as usual.

   At any rate, Braincellsoup belatedly accepts the vagina challenge, using the word "vagina" in the title of a blog post, in support of the 3 young ladies and common sense in general.

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Some toad in England has come up with a brilliant idea to force smokers to have to buy a smoking permit and if they don’t they don’t get to buy their cigarettes; and I imagine cigars as well.

Julian Le Grand; the chairman of the English government agency Health England, calls his idea libertarian paternalism. I call it more of telling me what I can and can not do. I realize that smokers are the newest and easiest social pariahs to kick in the nuts every time you want votes or score some easy money for the government but come on when is enough going to be enough.

Especially when such a authoritarian idea comes from a country that continually treats its citizens as fodder for governmental controls. One has to wonder if England has become nothing more than a giant example of an ongoing Orwellian social experiment of how far people can be pushed before they break.

Normally I wouldn’t care about things like this but as we have seen the ideas being tested in England soon find their way over the pond and into US and Canadian society. While we are taxed to death over cigarettes and looked upon as the scum of the gene pool the only thing any measures to further ostracize us has done is create a new class of criminals.

Whether it be the single person going to the Indian reserves to buy a few bags of cigarettes the the growing black market that has been created and grows with every new government measure smokers have become a new criminal class. Now some dipwad in England wants to further propagate the problem by making us buy permits.

Well I have one thing to suggest to Julian Le Grand - shut the fuck up; because sure as shit this idea gains any traction in England and some do goodie two shoes here will think it’s a great idea and the next thing you know some government looking for easy votes will pass it as a new law.

What’s next - needing a permit to eat that extra hamburger at McDonalds or how about having to make sure you have that permit that allows you to buy that bottle of booze. Think not? … bet you thought he same thing about cameras on every street corners. Cameras that have not proven one bit to beat back crime .. except now they’ll be able to use them to catch those society destroying smokers.

Cred: Nothing to do with Arbroath

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I just don’t get this whole body modding thing. The occasional bit of ink is cool but surgically implanting stuff in your body to change the look - I’m sorry but that is just too whacked for me.

Cred: ectoplasmosis

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THAT is the question.  There are some who say, "Kinky" is when you just use a feather.  "Perverted" is where you use the whole damn chicken.  I wonder if it was this photo that made the saying a reality. 

What would you get out of this?  Better yet, what would the chicken get out of this?

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Okay .. you’ve gone out and spent a small fortune for a cool piece of art nouveau circuitry called an iPhone and now you want to embarrass yourself even further by turning it into an iGuitar

Cred: The Raw Feed

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The actual window and frame from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed our 35th president, John F. Kennedy. 188 bids were placed and the winning bidder paid $3,001,501.00 on February 16th 2007 and gained what is most likely the most valuable window in the world.

3 million bucks. For a window. That Kennedy was shot through. Maybe.

Sure wish I had money laying about for things like that.

Cred: Webupon.com

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In a Time Magazine Online article today that I read when I got home today, I learned about John and Cynthia Burke of Newark, New Jersey. They’re good people, with good jobs, and a good family. They just wanted to adopt a child. Unfortunately, a judge in NJ, using a rather sick interpretation of the state constitution, has denied them the right to keep the child that has already been living in their home for most of it’s short life.

What, you may ask, could have surfaced that makes these people terrible enough, dangerous enough to take a child from the only parents it has ever known? Are they terrorists? Hidden drug convictions? Ties to the Russian mob? AOL subscribers?

They don’t believe in God.

I couldn’t even breathe for several seconds. How can this happen? In America? Home of the FREE? Freedom of religion? First Amendment, anyone?

For one thing, all the true atheists I know are among the most open-minded people I have ever met, respecting of almost any point of view, even if they don’t agree with it.

Second, I’ve met a lot of people in my close to 34 years, from many nations, many races, and many religions including lack thereof. You know what? Every segment of humanity I have ever come in contact with has it’s share of assholes. I’ve met Asian assholes, Buddhist assholes, (okay, not many of those, Buddhists are pretty mellow) Christian assholes, German assholes, Russian assholes, and Portuguese assholes. I’ve even met assholes who were atheist. And let me tell you, there’s no particular group that has more than it’s share of assholes.

Since when is the judicial system of the United States of America permitted to judge a person’s worth by the god(s) they choose (or choose not) to worship? I thought it was illegal to “..make (a) law respecting an establishment of religion..”. Looks to me like one judge is awfully close to just that.

I bet you could attach wires to the graves of our forefathers and power a small city from all the spinning.

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