OMG SLUG PORN

Here is an image of the Great Grey Slug mating.

Here's another.

I'm staring at what are *obviously* the sex organs and find myself deeply, deeply fascinated. And confused.

Dear idiot neighbors

Today is July FIFTH. Your fireworks, aside from being illegal, are much too loud for midnight. A lot of people on this block have kids who might not appreciate being woken up by those overly powerful explosions in the middle of the night. A lot of people on this block might intend to go to church tomorrow, and would like some rest. If this was a once a year thing, I'd ignore it, but you have a history of acting like five year olds in regards to your own noise levels. Knock it off, or I'm calling the cops. They actually care about things like illegal fireworks.

Here's hoping one of them sends themselves to the hospital with minor injuries....

On the list of highly ironic images....

Take a look at this picture.

The caption reads: In this picture provided by Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Liberty, a male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wears a hat and waves an American flag in honor of the Fourth of July at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif. on Friday, July 3, 2009. Liberty, born on July 4, 1990, was named after his birth date, and this year turns 19 the same day the nation marks its 233rd year.

The irony of naming a caged animal born in captivity (no matter how well-treated) "Liberty" and teaching it to do foolish tricks to earn money is astounding.

I'm not opposed necessarily to zoos and whatnot, nor to teaching dolphins tricks (it stimulates their minds, anyway), but the name...!

Been reading up on missing person cases and unsolved murders.

It's depressing and fascinating at once. It is also depressingly fascinating and fascinatingly depressing! Four sensations out of only two adjectives, a new world record!

Here's a man with a rare case of retrograde amnesia. I wonder why, as he remembers growing up in Indianapolis and as he thinks he attended Catholic school, he hasn't searched old parochial school records - maybe an old yearbook from a few years around when he's likely to have graduated? Well, it'd require tremendous manpower, I suppose, and in the meantime he has to live the life he HAS, doesn't he?

Still, if anybody reading recognizes this guy, go tell him :)