"A well-armed population is one that gets eaten by fewer vampires!"

Necessary Evil, part 2.

Now with Real, True Quotes(tm)!

(  Give me half an hour and I'll give you SUCH a SMACK!  )

"You're talking to a radio."
"I am not a radio. But I understand how this is sometimes complicated, and confusing."
"... please continue negotiating WITH YOUR RADIO."

( Wherein Our Heroes find allies. Kind of. )

( More! )

(  What is this guy, like, the Resistance resistance?  )

"So, how are we to receive payment?"
"Uh...."
"We should probably have arranged this in advance."

( Indeed! )

"I need a sunlamp!"
"Life is NOT THAT BAD!"

( Humanitarian - what's the opposite of that? )

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Guess the state!

Teacher has students vote on whether 5-year-old can stay in class

After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Alex, his teacher said they were going to take a vote.

By a 14 to 2 margin, the children voted him out of the class.

Cute baby ferrets eating baby ferret food!

And by "baby ferret food", I mean "a rabbit"

( Here there be FUZZY and CUTE and little NOSES and some BLOOD and a DEAD RABBIT )

I love living in the future.

A self-portrait made from a single "pen" line more than 110 000km long.

That's right, he used a GPS unit to "draw" on the planet. His head is significantly larger than Europe.

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Phil Plait calls this "The Best Image Ever"

Quoth him:

That is exactly what you think it is: Phoenix descending to the Martian surface underneath its parachute.

This incredible shot was taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. You can easily see the ‘chute, the lander (still in its shell) and even the tether lines!

Think on this, and think on it carefully: you are seeing a manmade object falling gracefully and with intent to the surface of an alien world, as seen by another manmade object already circling that world, both of them acting robotically, and both of them hundreds of million of kilometers away.

Never, ever forget: we did this. This is what we can do.

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Fox News correspondent "accidentally" calls Obama "Osama", then suggests killing him.