RADIOAKTIVE EBER NEHMEN DEUTSCHLAND IN ANGRIFF!

Yr Mutant Dystopian Future Is Now headline of the day:



The slightly less sensational source article at Der Spiegel explains the problem better – basically it’s to do with the after-effects of Chernobyl.

Wild boar are particularly susceptible to radioactive contamination due to their predilection for chomping on mushrooms and truffles, which are particularly efficient at absorbing radioactivity. Indeed, whereas radioactivity in some vegetation is expected to continue declining, the contamination of some types of mushrooms and truffles will likely remain the same, and may even rise slightly -- even a quarter century after the Chernobyl accident.

And it will remain a problem for the next 50 years, says Joachim Reddemann, an expert on radioactivity in wild boar with the Bavarian Hunting Federation.

For more information, consult the horror section of yr local video store/service provider.

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Too much pork for just one fork,

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YOU KNOW YR CHEWING BUBBLEGUM / YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT YA STILL WANT SOME

As a child of the 70s, I was big on bubblegum cards, though my taste was less towards baseball/football stars and more the likes of Mars Attacks and, of course, Star Wars. Either way, the gum was typically crumbly and expendable, but I chewed it anyway because hey, free gum.

However, by far the coolest innovation in gratuitous gum products had to be Chu-Bops – gum shaped like a vinyl record and kept in an album sleeve.

Like this.



I’d forgotten about these, but I do remember getting the ones with Pat Benatar, Blondie, Judas Priest and a few others – not The Knack, sadly, or the Rush covers, since I never saw the entire series in stock all at once). I was fascinated with album cover art as a concept at the time, so I thought it was cool to get them in miniaturized versions.

You can find all nine series here (with automatic music samples that you can’t control, so you’ll be hearing some Pat Benatar).

Chew on this,

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SON OF QUAYLE VOWS TO DEFEAT OBAMA IN 2010

You don’t have to follow politics all that closely to understand that when it comes to campaigns, people will say just about anything to be elected, or to help their preferred candidate get elected.

“Our party promises to outlaw blowjobs and strippers.”

"My opponent is a raghead financed by foreigners who want her to take over the country."

"Public transportation is a UN plot to enslave America." 

And so on.

So when Ben Quayle – son of Dan (yes, THAT one) – kicked off his latest campaign ad with the statement, “Barack Obama is the worst president EVER”, I didn’t take it that seriously.

Because it’s not like he actually spent any time researching that claim. And why would he? It’s easy to say and sounds good, and if anyone tries to pin you down on it, you can just cite Obamacare and teleprompters and birth certificates, because yr target audience is conservative voters, not historians. So it’s not like they’re going to fact-check you on that.

But I do find it interesting that he’s using anti-Obama sentiment as a hook to convince people to vote for him in a Congressional district race. “Hi, I’m Ben Quayle. Obama sucks, so vote for me. I approve this message.” How lazy can you get?

To be fair, there’s a little more to it than that – Quayle’s point (and he does have one) is that when Obama is done wrecking the country and turning it into a Constitution-free Sharia dictatorship where everyone has to be gay and speak foreign languages and give 100% of their earnings to the local mosque, you’ll need people like Ben Quayle who can fight to put America back the way it was (preferably back to 1800 when marriage was still traditional).

I'm paraphrasing. But you get the idea. 

Still, as campaign ads go, it’s pretty weak. And unimaginative. At least Basil Marceaux.com’s ad had some original ideas, and Dale Peterson had firearms. Rick Barber has conversations with dead presidents. Carly Fiorina has demon sheep.

“Obama sucks! We need outsiders to fix Washington!” is pretty generic by comparison. No wonder even RedState.com isn’t that impressed with him.

Still, his dad was a nincompoop and made it all the way to Veep. So who knows?

On the other hand, if he wins the primary in two weeks, maybe all the other GOP candidates will decide the ticket to victory is to pretend yr running against Obama and not that other person. Which surely must be unprecedented.

PRODUCTION NOTE: As for this “We need outsiders to fix Washington” meme, I could do a whole separate post on that. Maybe one day, when I’m not that busy.

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