21st Century? They haven't made it to the 20th yet...

Ah, the Deep South. Land of ignorance, hatred, and fear. Also known as the Bible Belt.

Mississippi libraries ban 'Daily Show' book

GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.

"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.

"We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," Willits said. "If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we'd have the book."

I wonder, do they have Gray's Anatomy on the shelves? How about National Geographic? Lynne Cheney's lesbian thriller Sisters? How about Bill O'Reilly's potboiler Those Who Trespass : A Novel of Television and Murder? Both of these books feature graphic sex.

Grumble. We should have let the South go in 1860. Slavery would have ended under pressure from the British and French, and today the CSA would be a third world cesshole.

Meme thing

Ganked from deathbytamarind

This seems to be aimed more at the female half of the species, but I'll play...

A - Accent: Generic California. When I get really sarcastic, my Georgia accent comes out. When I'm really mad, my father's Devonshire accent comes to the fore.
B - Breast size: Who knows?
C - Chore you hate: Dishes.
D - Dad's name: Peter John Douglas
E - Essential make-up item: None
F - Favorite perfume/cologne: I don't have one. I dislike scents/perfumes. I won't even use scented soap.
G - Gold or silver: Silver.
H - Hometown: Los Gatos, Ca.
I - Insomnia: Every so often..
J - Job title: Sales Associate
K - Kids: I may have a son. He's a teenager now...
L - Living arrangements: 2 bedroom apartment, with the second bedroom used mostly for storage and Kiri's sewing machine.
M - Mum's birthplace: Kansas City, MO
N - Number of apples you've eaten: Not that many, over the years.
O - Overnight hospital stays: LOL! Let's see.. over the last ten years I've probably racked up two months of hospital stays.
P - Phobia: Deep water.
R - Religious affiliation: Atheist Discordian. I don't believe in Eris, but it's OK.. She's not too sure about me either.
S - Siblings: Older brother (isomeme) and younger sister (no LJ... yet.)
T - Time you wake up: I'm an Evil Morning Person(TM). I'm usually out of bed by 0800. This will change when I get the 76 job.
U - Unnatural hair colors you've worn: An accident with a smoke grenade left me with bright yellow hair once...
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: Pretty much all of them.
W - Worst habit: Procrastination
X - X-rays you've had: Gah. Dozens and dozens. At least twenty chest films alone, alone with head/neck, dental.. add in the CT and MRIs, and I'm probably one of the best-imaged bodies in the Bay Area.
Y - Yummy foods you make: I'm not much of a cook, but my chocolate shakes are pretty damn good.
Z - Zodiac sign: Cancer. In Chinese astrology, I'm a Fire Horse

That's no moon...

that's a space station.

Iapetus is weirder than we thought.

Iapetus moon bulges at the sides

The Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus has revealed a bizarre geological feature in its images: a bulging ridge at its equator. Mission scientists have started to release detailed images of the moon's surface, which is sharply divided into a bright half and a dark half. The ridge is around 13km (8 miles) high in some places - taller than Mount Everest, the tallest peak on Earth. Dr Carolyn Porco, leader of Cassini's imaging team, says Iapetus is one of the most interesting targets Cassini will visit during its four-year tour of Saturn.

( Moons have ridges... )

Anybody up[ to watch me get really geeky?

Giants Fan Fest is 2/12/05 at Pier 48.

Anybody interested?

Bleat!

Thanks to kshandra

If you didn't start a Live Journal for the sole purpose of being an attention whore and having everyone pity you because of your sob stories, put this in your LJ.