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Oct 31, 2011

sweet...



Heidi Klum Wears a Gory Skinned Dead Body Costume to Her Halloween Party




Model Heidi Klum, already known for over-the-top Halloween costumes, donned a custom skintight, and quite gory, skinned dead body (ala “Visible Woman”) costume to the 12th Heidi Klum’s Annual Halloween party which she hosted at the The Venetian Resort’s TAO Nightclub in Las Vegas. For ‘authenticity’, she made her grand entrance by being wheeled in on an autopsy table by two bloody ‘medical professionals’. The macabre ‘body’suit was created by costume designer Martin Izquierdo.
She tweeted a series of photos of her face makeup as it was being applied:


via Daily Mail & Super Punch

Just in time for the holiday....


I don't know what the hell this is , but I dig it....


wow....


Oct 28, 2011

the thirteen year old in me cries out in joy....


I feel safer....

TSA goes through woman's luggage, finds sex toy, leaves pervy note

By at 7:26 am Monday, Oct 24
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"Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA," tweets writer and attorney Jill Filipovic of Feministe. "Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow."
It was a standard-issue "we rummaged through your checked luggage" Transportation Security Administration Notice of Inspection (NOI), but with these handwritten words in pen overlaid: "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL."
"Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok," Filipovic writes in a post titled Your Tax Dollars at Work, "but I also just died laughing in my hotel room."
The "personal item" in question, Ms. Filipovic tells Boing Boing, was this $15 "Silver Bullet" vibrator from Babeland. I suppose a case could be made that an airport screener would have a legitimate reason to probe more deeply see what I did there you guys if this sort-of-ammo-shaped sex toy popped up on an imaging display. But the creepy note? Yeah, that definitely didn't have to happen. And TSA agents behaving badly with female travelers' intimate stuff? Not uncommon. Nor are women the only recipients of inappropriate notes from screeners

Booo!!!

Realistic 3D Pumpkin Carvings by Food Sculptor Ray Villafane

By on October 24, 2011
beautiful






Food sculptor Ray Villafane of Villafane Studios in Arizona creates amazing 3D pumpkin carvings including a particular awesome one in the likeness of talk show host David Letterman

Wooo Hoooo!!!!!!

McRib is back!!!!

Mcrib 2011
McRib, the elusive sandwich that has inspired a cult-like following, is back.
McDonald's Corp. plans to announce Monday that the boneless barbecue pork sandwich that is not always available in stores will be sold at all U.S. locations through Nov. 14.
It's usually up to local franchises to determine when and if they want to sell the McRib, except in Germany, the only place where it's available perennially. But McDonald's said the response was so great last November when it made the McRib available nationally for about three weeks – the first time it had done so since 1994 – that it decided to bring it back this year. The company declined to give specific sales numbers.
The sandwich, which is dressed with onions, pickle slices and barbecue sauce, was introduced nationally in 1982. With 500 calories and 26 grams of fat, it's slightly trimmer than the Big Mac, which has 540 calories and 29 grams of fat. And just like the Big Mac, the McRib has become a popular McDonald's offering.
There are Facebook groups like "Bring Back the McRib!!!" There are Twitter tags, where posts range from "Lucky me, the McRib is back" to "If you eat McRibs, you need to re-evaluate what it is you actually want in life." There's even the McRib Locator, a website where true believers can report McRib sightings, and even truer believers can take a road trip when one shows up within driving distance.
If the McRib is so popular, why not just offer it all the time? McDonald's likes to stoke the enthusiasm with an aura of transience.
"Bringing it back every so often adds to the excitement," said Marta Fearon, McDonald's U.S. marketing director, who added that she's not sure if the McRib will reappear in stores every fall.
And how can it be called a McRib if it doesn't have any bones? Said Fearon: "That gives it this quirky sense of humor.".

Oct 24, 2011

tidings of comfort and joy......(and brains)

Zombie nativity scene

By at 7:53 pm Saturday, Oct 22

Since you know that November 1 is the day that retailers bust out their Christmas dross, why not combine Hallowe'en and Xmas with this zombie nativity scene from Etsy seller fetishforethics?

Yikes!!!!! (part 6)

Penile Fracture: Study Links Broken Penises To Infidelity

Penile Fracture

Not only do affairs fracture relationships, they may also fracture penises, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Dr. Andrew Kramer, a urologist and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, studied 16 cases of penile fracture between 2004 and 2011 that required surgery. Half the patients admitted to fracturing their penises during an extramarital affair.
According to the study, which was published last month, penile fracture occurs when the "tunica albuginea" -- the fibrous membrane surrounding the tissue in the center of the penis -- is torn during the bending or buckling of an erect penis. It can result in erectile dysfunction if not surgically repaired.
We talked to Dr. Kramer to learn more about his unusual findings.
(Warning: Graphic content ahead)
Of the 16 patients in the study, 50% admitted to having an extramarital affair when the penile fracture occurred. Was that surprising? Why do you think that is?
I was... and it was a joke among the residents who'd come in. Some of the guys would say, "I'm sure he's with his girlfriend." If a guy is having an extramarital affair or he's rushed or in a weird place, the situation is different [somehow]. I think the time you don't see a lot of men fracturing their penises is in the bedroom with his wife that he's been married to for a number of years.
Not only were these men engaged in extramarital affairs when the injury took place, but they were also having sex in unusual locations -- outside the bedroom. Is there something to be said about where people carry on affairs?
That made sense to me. If the guy is having an affair with a coworker, I guess it makes sense that he would go about it at work, or he didn't want to come home. Maybe they were just trying to find whatever location they could... I think that a guy, when he's with a girlfriend or a co-worker and he's in a weird place, I think the sex might be different. He's extra excited and he's maybe doing more forceful or frequent thrusting, and the key is that he has less control over the angle that his penis can penetrate and that's what can predispose the fracture. If you're in an elevator with your wife or in a weird position it's the same risk, and it has nothing to do with an affair.
Your findings are based on 16 patients over a 4-year span. How can you be sure that your conclusions are accurate based on the limited number of patients in the study?
The paper is just observational; I'm just giving you opinions on it. I think it's pretty clear-cut that penile fractures have to occur from some buckling effect on the penis. About the affairs, I think it's the stressful situation and the unusual positions and the partners; I'm drawing a conclusion that is a lead from the data. In this type of study about penile fractures, it's hard to get thousands and thousands of patients. I agree that it would be great to pull data from other people and institutions.
You note that the incidence of penile fracture may be higher than reported because patients may be too embarrassed to report their injuries. Can you speak to that?
Oh, for sure that's the case... If I had an injury and I was embarrassed, I might stay home and say "God I hope this gets better." I think a lot of guys are not going to come to the emergency room for that reason. They would rather hope it goes away or they don't want to tell someone at home.
You treated many of these patients yourself. What was it like talking to the patients' wives after they confessed to you?
It is awkward. I don't feel any ethical obligation to tell a wife that her husband was cheating on her. I really have not felt that it's my duty, and I'm not embarrassed about it... I'd just say, "We fixed the penis... there's a tear." If she wants to ask him later, then that's up to her. I think in terms of confidentially, I'm not obligated to tell them, so I never do.
What advice would you give to men based on your findings?
I think a man has to be extra cautious. Most of the time, it doesn't matter who you're with, the position where a man fractures his penis is typically when a woman is on the top and she comes down on the erect penis and it buckles. Protect that penis from getting buckled, or getting hit at an angle, because that's where it'll happen.

armadillo's don't kill..people using armadillo's do...

Texas man sought in frozen-armadillo attack

 
Dallas police are searching for a man who allegedly used a frozen armadillo to attack a woman who had been trying to buy the critter.
Investigators told Fox 4 News-Dallas Fort Worth that the fight started in an apartment parking lot Sept. 29 when the suspect was selling the carcass to the alleged victim, who planned to eat it.
The pair were haggling over the price when police said the man hurled the armadillo at the 57-year-old woman twice. The woman was struck in her leg and chest, and suffered bruises, police said.
So far, investigators have been unable to track down the suspect, who they said could face assault charges.
According to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas law prohibits the sale of live armadillos, but some Texans still savor the meat. Some developed a taste for armadillo during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when it was known as “Hoover Hog” and “poor man’s pork.”
--Molly Hennessy-Fiske in Houston

don't need it , want it....

Electric DeLorean to be Released in 2013

By on October 21, 2011
Electric DeLorean
Electric DeLorean
Electric DeLorean
The resurrected DeLorean Motor Company is producing an electric version of the iconic 1980s DMC-12 sports car for release in 2013. The car is expected to have about 260 HP and a 70 to 100 mile range. Jalopnik recently test drove a running prototype of the car.
Founded by John DeLorean, the original DeLorean Motor Company collapsed in 1982. The company’s sole production model, the DMC-12, was made famous in 1985′s Back to the Future. Texas businessman Stephen Wynne bought the remnants of the company, including enough spare parts to make new cars, in 1995

Oct 23, 2011

is this making a mountain out of a molehill? (ha ha,sorry...)


Dwarf Tossing Should Be Illegal


Bill Klein, star of The Little Couple, on why dwarf tossing is no laughing matter.

Imagine walking into a bar and as you sit down to order a drink, you notice tonight's entertainment on the tabletop beer menu: Dwarf-tossing, starring Joe the Midget, 10-Midnight, 2 drink minimum.
I know that some of you are appalled, and that some of you snickered. The folks that snicker are the same people that I’ve had to combat all my life.
My name is Bill Klein. I am 37 years old and stand four feet tall. My wife, Jennifer Arnold, and I appear on a reality series on TLC called The Little Couple. For nearly three years, we have been propagating the message that people with dwarfism are no different from average-height people. My wife is a successful physician at Baylor College of Medicine and I own a few small businesses in New York and Texas.

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Florida Rep. Ritch Workman in a file photo from May 2011 (left). Bill Klein & Jennifer Arnold from the show The Little Couple. Workman wants to repeal a Florida ban on "dwarf-tossing"., Steve Cannon / AP (left); Courtesy

truth in advertising....

201110211203
The Consumerist: "Someone has graffiti ed this Burger King billboard in downtown Seattle to transform it into criticism about how sugary fast food contributes to diabetes and the obesity crisis."

yikes.....


Christine Chin's "Sentient Kitchen" sculptures imagine a whole set of kitchenware sculpted to resemble body parts. The hairy nostrils are a really good touch -- indeed, the whole collection uses sparse hairs to great effect.

only makes sense...

Dan Savage Challenges Herman Cain To Prove Being Gay Is 'A Choice'... By Performing Oral Sex On Him

Dan Savage Herman Cain

Sex columnist and It Gets Better campaign co-founder Dan Savage has some choice words for Herman Cain.
The presidential hopeful's stance on homosexuality -- that it's a choice -- has drawn outrage from many, but Cain continues to hold his ground. Earlier this week he discussed his views with talk show host Piers Morgan:
Cain: I think it's a sin because of my biblical beliefs and, although people don't agree with me, I happen to think that it is a personal choice.
Morgan: You think people wait — you believe people get to a certain age and say, I want to be homosexual?
Cain: Let me turn it around to you. What does science show? Show me evidence other than opinion and you might cause me to reconsider that...Where is the evidence?
...Cain: ... I respect their right to make that choice. You don't see me bashing them. I respect them to have the right to make that choice. I don't have to agree with it. That's all I'm saying
Morgan: It would be like a gay person saying, Herman, you made a choice to be black.
.Morgan: Maybe if they say that, they would find that offensive.
Cain: Piers, Piers. This doesn't wash off. I hate to burst your bubble.
Morgan: I don't think being homosexual washes off.

In response to Cain's comments, Savage offered him the chance to prove that homosexuality is in fact a choice, writing on The Stranger's Slog blog:
 

Interesting....

Oct 21, 2011

WWJD? (vomit in his hat...)

Catholic Church Sex Abuse Report: Blame Woodstock


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Most Holy Redeemer Church alex atallah's flick

Earlier this year, Archbishop Timothy Dolan posited that the Catholic church's far-reaching sex abuse scandal "needs to haunt" the institution for some time. To that end, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned a study on the matter five years ago, trying to identify the factors which led to the widespread sex abuse. And they concluded in the controversial report that though celibacy and a rise in gay priests weren't necessarily to blame, the social and sexual upheaval of the 1960s were a major factor.
Though the 300-page report, formally titled “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010,” paints a complex picture of the causes of the abuse, it does argue that there was a link between poorly prepared and monitored priests who started around the kooky 1960s and ’70s and the abuse. According to the Times, this “blame Woodstock” explanation has been floated by bishops since the scandal broke out in the US in 2002, and by Pope Benedict XVI after it erupted in Europe in 2010.
The report states: "The rise of abuse cases in the 1960s and 1970s was influenced by social factors in society generally...Factors that were invariant during the time period addressed, such as celibacy, were not responsible for the increase or decline in abuse cases over time." They found that many more boys than girls were abused by priests, but only because of easy access, and argued that no particular “psychological characteristics,” “developmental histories” or mood disorders distinguished abusers from non-abusers: “Individual characteristics do not predict that a priest will commit sexual abuse of a minor. Rather, vulnerabilities, in combination with situational stresses and opportunities, raise the risk of abuse.” They even compared those priests with police officers who brutalize citizens.
Conducted by New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the report also notes that more homosexual men began entering the seminaries “in noticeable numbers” from the late 1970s through the 1980s, at a point when reports of sexual abuse dropped and leveled off. But the $1.8 million study, which relied heavily on data provided by the church, has already garnered a lot of criticism, particularly because of their definitions of "prepubescent" children, and "pedophile."
They argue that "it is inaccurate to refer to abusers as ‘pedophile priests,’" because fewer than 5 percent of the abusive priests exhibited behavior consistent with pedophilia, which it defines as a “psychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent fantasies, urges and behaviors about prepubescent children." They define "prepubescent" children as those age 10 and under, and as a result found that only 22 percent of the priests’ victims were prepubescent. However, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifies a "prepubescent" child as age 13 or younger. If the researchers had used that cutoff, a vast majority of the abusers’ victims would have been considered prepubescent.
Some also argue that the report shifts blame away from the church hierarchy, which knowingly protected/shielded the abusive priests, allowing them to get away with their crimes, and that because the Church supplied all the data, it calls all the findings into question: “There aren’t many dioceses where prosecutors have gotten involved, but in every single instance there’s a vast gap—a multiplier of two, three or four times—between the numbers of perpetrators that the prosecutors find and what the bishops released,” said Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of BishopAccountability.

Anne Frank a Mormon?

 

Related At an appearance at George Washington University here Saturday night, Bill Maher bounded into territory that the news media have been gingerly tiptoeing around.

Magic underwear. Baptizing dead people. Celestial marriages. Private planets. Racism. Polygamy.
“By any standard, Mormonism is more ridiculous than any other religion,” asserted the famously nonbelieving comic who skewered the “fairy tales” of several faiths in his documentary “Religulous.” “It’s a religion founded on the idea of polygamy. They call it The Principle. That sounds like The Prime Directive in ‘Star Trek.’ ”
He said he expects the Romney crowd — fighting back after Robert Jeffress, a Texas Baptist pastor supporting Rick Perry, labeled Mormonism a non-Christian “cult” — to once more “gloss over the differences between Christians and Mormons.”
Maher was not easy on the religion he was raised in either. He referred to the Roman Catholic Church as “an international child sex ring.”
But atheists, like Catholics and evangelical Christians, seem especially wary of Mormons, dubbed the “ultimate shape-shifters” by Maher.
In a Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll released on Tuesday, people were asked what single word came to mind for Republican candidates. For Herman Cain it was 9-9-9; for Rick Perry, Texas; and for Mitt Romney, Mormon. In the debate Tuesday night, Romney said it was repugnant that “we should choose people based on their religion.”
In The Times on Sunday, Sheryl Gay Stolberg chronicled Romney’s role as a bishop in Boston often giving imperious pastoral guidance on everything from divorce to abortion.
Stolberg reported that Romney, who would later run for Senate as a supporter of abortion rights against Teddy Kennedy and then flip to oppose those rights in Republican presidential primaries, showed up unannounced at a hospital in his role as bishop. He “sternly” warned a married mother of four, who was considering terminating a pregnancy because of a potentially dangerous blood clot, not to go forward.
Another famous nonbeliever, Christopher Hitchens, wrote in Slate on Monday about “the weird and sinister belief system of the LDS,” the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Aside from Joseph Smith, whom Hitchens calls “a fraud and conjurer well known to the authorities in upstate New York,” the writer also wonders about the Mormon practice of amassing archives of the dead and “praying them in” as a way to “retrospectively ‘baptize’ everybody as a convert.”
Hitchens noted that they “got hold of a list of those put to death by the Nazis’ Final Solution” and “began making these massacred Jews into honorary LDS members as well.” He called it “a crass attempt at mass identity theft from the deceased.”
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank.
It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American

right wing brain trust....

Rush's recent on-air claim that Obama is sending troops to Uganda for the purpose of "wiping out Christians." Explaining that the "Christian" group Lord's Resistance Army promotes an objective "to remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people," Limbaugh left out that the LRA has terrorized the people of Uganda and other countries for over 25 years by abducting children, brainwashing them and forcing them to become sex slaves as well as torturers and executioners.
 

new yummy math...


I'm not sure I have any comment for this, other than to say how pleased I am that puns work just as well in math.

Oct 20, 2011

weird, but cool...


Ariana Page Russell is a visual artist whose work features intricate patterns etched in her own skin. Russell has dermatographia, an immune system disorder that causes histamine swelling in response to light scratching. The effect lasts about 30 minutes: "This allows me to painlessly draw on my skin with just enough time to photograph the results. Even though I can direct this ephemeral response by drawing on it, the reaction is involuntary, much like the uncontrollable nature of a blush."

nine nine...nine...

20 bizarre facts and bits of interesting trivia about H.P. Lovecraft



Above is one of the rare photos where horror writer and "weird fiction" legend H.P. Lovecraft is attempting a smile. It's a fitting way to kick off these 20 facts and bits of trivia about a now famous author who lived much of his life in poverty, died in a agony and was almost entirely unknown and unread until after his death: 

When Lovecraft was 3 his father went insane and died 5 years later, most likely from "general paresis of the insane" caused by syphilis.

Lovecraft's first attempt at writing the "weird fiction" he would later become famous for is a story called "The Noble Eavesdropper." The story (which some say he wrote at the age of 6 or 7) does not survive.

His first published work was a letter about "astronomical matters" that was printed in The Providence Sunday Journal in 1906.


Lovecraft became a prolific letter writer and by some accounts wrote 87,500 letters during his lifetime. He was also in the habit of dating letters 200 years earlier than the current date.

Although now considered one of the greatest early American writers of horror, Lovecraft never received his high school diploma.

Lovecraft was friends with many contemporary writers of his time, including Conan creator Robert Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber.

Lovecraft was once "killed" by fellow writer Bloch in the short story "Shambler from the Stars" and later killed Bloch in turn in a story called "The Haunter of the Dark."

Lovecraft ghost wrote a story called "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" for Harry Houdini, who later commissioned Lovecraft to write a book debunking superstition (which was never finished due to Houdini's death).

Although Lovecraft is most famous for creating the Cthulhu Mythos, he himself never used that term. Lovecraft referred to his own series of interconnected mythos stories as the "Arkham Cycle."

Lovecraft's favorite author was Edgar Allan Poe, of whom he said "Poe was my God of fiction."

Lovecraft in turn influenced numerous writers that came after him, including Stephen King, Cliver Barker and Neil Gaiman. King called Lovecraft one of his biggest influences and "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

Lovecraft only truly became popular after his death, when friend and fellow writer August Derleth founded Arkham House publishing to help keep Lovecraft's work alive.

All of Lovecraft's stories written before 1923 are now in the public domain. However, it's not clear who owns or owned the copyright to many of his works, and the status of stories written after 1923 is disputed.

The statuette for the World Fantasy Award is a bust of Lovecraft, in honor of his writing. The award is informally referred to as a Howard.

Lovecraft created one of the few fictional books that was later turned into a real book: The Necronomicon. No less than 4 versions of the Necronomicon have since been created.

Although everyone knows Lovecraft was born on Aug. 20, 1890, and died on March 15, 1937, he's one of the few people whose "middle day" of life is also on record. A fan once calculated that December 2, 1913, was the exact halfway point of Lovecraft's life.

While he died in 1937, Lovecraft didn't actually get his own headstone until 1977, when fans pitched in to buy him one.

Lovecraft isn't buried under his headstone, however, even though hundreds of people visit it each year to pay homage to him. (His body is buried nearby.)

On Oct. 13, 1997, someone apparently tried to dig up Lovecraft's body, not knowing it wasn't under the headstone. They dug down about 3 feet before giving up for unknown reasons.

Lovecraft and his creations frequently appear in popular culture and have shown up in such diverse places as episodes of South Park and songs by Metallica. Although dead, Lovecraft has a Facebook page with more than 122,000 fans

Oct 19, 2011

Ape speaks....clown college...



Now if you are a Republican... A deck shoe, no white after labor day, Episcopalian ,fiscal and social conservative you must have been feeling pretty good around four months ago. The right track, wrong track is leaning your way, unemployment over 9%, they way you got it figured any one your party picks (boring white guy) will waltz right in over this community organizer (what the hell is that? does he wear shorts and have a whistle?) Short of him walking out on a debate stage with a feather duster up his ass and asking everyone to call him a pretty little peacock it should be a shoe in. And you would feel justified. It has been a tough twenty years. Clinton? (are you kidding?) Bush? (what the hell was that?) and then Obama.
But things have been looking a little spooky.
Trump,Perry and now Cain?
The only thing left is Romney. (Doesn't he have magic underpants?)
Why one can barely bring one self to finish a Manhattan...
So now you sit and watch the debates with a white knuckled intensity...
Because you know it's just a matter of time...
Before the feather duster comes out.......

cave gap!!!

Russian space caves on the Moon

Some Russian scientists want to build a space colony inside a network of caves on the Moon. No, really. It's hard to tell, from the Reuters story, how much support this plan actually has from the people who hold the purse strings.

sharp..

Folding utility knife that fits in your wallet


The CardSharp 2 from Iain Sinclair is a folding utility knife that turns into a credit-card object when it's not in use, suitable for storing in your wallet. It's a clever little design, unlike a lot of credit-card tools that leave you with a rectangle of plastic in one hand and a tool in the other, the "card" folds around to become the handle.

Oct 18, 2011

The end of western civilization....


Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick


I recently spotted the Jimmy Dean Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick food product in my local grocery store’s frozen food aisle. As surprised as I was to see it there, I was even more surprised to find online that they produce a a blueberry pancake version of this sorta-corndoggish item too. Not surprisingly, this product has a very low NuVal score: 6 (out of a possible 100)

all too true....

Life Cycle show by TrustoCorp
Life Cycle is an upcoming gallery show by anonymous prankster artists TrustoCorp. The focus of the show will be the life cycle of a person in contemporary America. Life Cycle opens at the Opera Gallery in New York City on October 21 and runs through November

so absurd it's righteous...


TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NOSES, by Simon Fletcher. "GOD IS THE ARTIST. I JUST FIND THE NINJA TURTLE IN HIS WORK."
Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses


(vi

Oct 17, 2011

Man quits w/t marching band....(cool)


very cool...

Virgin Galactic opens world's first commercial spaceport

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Richard Branson blogs: "A historic day today in New Mexico as we will be opening the first commercial spaceport in the world - Spaceport America.

hitchens v galloway (just in case I've forgotten that I am a intellectual neophyte)


nuff said....