In order for Facebook to be worth the valuation that their stock is trading at, one out of every ten advertising dollars spent in the world (not just on the internet, but the entire world) would need to be spent on Facebook (and at that point, FB would be so over-burdened with ads that no one would ever want to use it). It's a simple matter of math. No “long-term” plan could ever, ever, ever make Facebook worth it's stock price (at least not under their current operating model). Don't waste your money.

For a country that seems so frequently willing to dive into a war, America seems to have surprisingly little stomach for the reality of it. The culture of the people we're fighting view protracted war as a permanent way of life. The Palestinians have been fighting the Israelis for almost 100 years over the current conflict, and people of Islamic faith have been fighting the “Zionists” for going on a THOUSAND YEARS now. This is why a lot of us were screaming “whoa, bad idea!” when we started invading middle-eastern countries, but no one seemed to understand at the time that when you go to war with Arab extremists, you don't get to just fly in, bomb the hell out of everything, and take off in a couple of months. Now, barely 10 short years into this thing, we've got to deal with with whiny “journalists” (and I use that term very, very loosely) complaining that we've been there too long, and this isn't working, so we're better off to just quit and go home. Well guess what? You don't get to bitch-slap the bear and then quit running after ten paces. We got into this mess (or rather, were pushed in by a handful of religious nut-jobs who killed thousands of innocent civillians), now we have to deal with the consequences of our decisions. If Dubbya's reaction to 9/11 hadn't been “F the world, Imma go blow shit up”, maybe we wouldn't be quite so screwed today, but that's what we get for allowing the citizenry of this country to turn into uneducated, inattentive, dolts who would rather watch “American Idol” than take enough interest in the government they're supposed to be participant in to elect a real leader as opposed to an aging frat-boy (on the basis of “he's the kind of guy I could have a beer with”). See: cause and effect. Elect the worst president in American history (TWICE!!!), get stuck in a protracted conflict that can never be satisfactorily ended.  So is “Obama's biggest mistake in the world” really the decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan? No, I think that honor goes to ever wanting to be President in 2008.

The dude protesting austerity measures in Greece with a “This is Sparta” sign = my new personal hero.

So, let me see if I've got this right: “Hey, you know that amazing thing that you've been wishing exists your entire life? Well now it does! And you can buy one! Just never, ever use it to have an awesome light saber fight like these guys are doing right now! Check out how super-cool that is! You know, just so you can be sure you see how not to use it. So hurry up and buy one of these things so you can not have bad ass light saber battles like this one!”

Anyone who's intrigued by this should read up on Gary Johnson. He's got the fiscal discipline of a tea-partier, but without the batshit crazy part, and he tends to embody that Libertarian idea that if you aren't hurting anybody, it really isn't the government's business to tell you what to do. Plus he's just a interesting guy; he's climbed Everest, and competed in the Bataan Memorial Death March and stuff.  If nothing else, it would be nice to have an actual choice, rather than being stuck between two parties that only serve to cater to the most extreme wings of the left and right.

For one who's tempted by this, I owned a Shiba that was as cute or cuter than this one. That dog was nuckin' futs. I'm talking Mel on a bad day crazy. She was actually smart, and wasn't that much harder to train than a san Gibson e dog (although you have to be willing to pay for professional training), but she also took a flying leap off a second story balcony without a second thought, shattered her femur, and cost me $4000 in medical bills.  Approach with caution.any

The Hammer of Thor tattoo just multiplied Scarlett Johansson's hotness factor by 10-fold in my book. Yay for chicks who respect the old Gods.

Unless you feell like filing the appropriate paperwork and paying a boatload of excise tax, you're probably better off just buying cheap grain alcohol from the liquor store. That said, this like a very, very, very basic how-to, and it leaves out a lot of important details. You could theoretically make moonshine with this recipe. You could also actually blow yourself up, or put yourself in the hospital. This is something worth doing the extra research on if you insist on trying. If not for personal safety, then to make liquor that's actually palatable (I'm just imagining a throng of 16 year-olds tossing white processed sugar, bread yeast, and corn meal into a pot, and thinking they're hardcore moonshiners)  Please don't give the evening news one more thing to blame the Internet for!

Scale up! For the love of God, scale up!!!

mmmm… vagina macaroons…