Obama Fiddles While Archduke Assasinated

Well, maybe he wasn’t ‘fiddling’, but was only golfing.  And maybe it wasn’t Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that was assasinated, but the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey G. Karlov.  Maybe the metaphors are a bit haphazard, but the fact remains that Barack Obama will get his 36 holes of golf in no matter that the “sky is falling” or not.

Daily Darwin – Belly Flop Fail

Darwin has a hard time containing his glee every time some fool attempts a belly flop (or as Darwin in wont to call it – a ball buster) and it turns out to be a true genome squisher.  Usually, there is water involved, and sometimes as in this poor fool’s experience, not so much water.

Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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A Nostalgic Polar Vortex Christmas Scene

The Chicago Tribune reports, “As subzero cold hits, wind chill advisory for Wednesday night, Thursday morning“.

With overnight temperatures dropping well below zero, the National Weather

Service has issued a wind chill advisory for Wednesday night through Thursday morning.

The advisory is in effect from 9 p.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday. The weather service said wind chills could reach minus 30 in some areas. It warned people could suffer frostbite in as little as 30 minutes.

One happy corollary, the sub-freezing temperatures slow Chiraq’s murder rate down a bit. Once the sun comes out, and things warm up again…maybe not so much.

Chiraq Murder stats – HeyJackass.com