Here’s why it’s not good to align portraits side by side when you’re doing a slideshow: the human brain, earnestly seeking to differentiate them, exaggerates the differences, resulting in an optical illusion called Flashed Face Distortion that makes the faces seem hideous and ogre-like. (Or, if you’re Clint Howard, more hideous and ogre-like.) Take a look.
Even if you’re never going to make a music video, you have to admire the cut-to-the-chaseness of this post. And, for all my friends so thrilled to be writing for Huffington Post for free, note the insistence on getting paid for your expertise.
A recent poll shows that a majority of small business owners polled lean conservative — but plan on voting for Obama. What’s their number one issue? Health care. Hm.
Which brings new meaning to the term Beastie BOYS.
Nothing ruins one’s mood so quickly and so completely as dealing with AT&T. Whether it’s jacking up your bill without notice, baiting-and-switching you on the plans and services offered, transferring you to five different people on the same service call, or sending you to collections because they forgot to cancel one of your old lines, they are unbeatable at beating you down while sounding pleasant over the phone.
Stop being the man’s dancing monkey.
I think this advice applies to everything.
In which, rather than euthanize a stunned deer involved in a fender bender, the Michigan deputy picks it up and carries it to the side of the road.
I grew up surrounded by deer, but I’ve never gotten to pick one up.
For more on this story, click here. It’s interesting that when first asked about this, the deputy was out hunting. I was prepared to see more caustic comments about this online — hey, he saved this deer, but he’s off hunting other ones — but found only one, which was nicely answered by this response: “Hunters do more to protect wildlife than almost anyone else. The whole wildlife conservation movement began with sport hunters. There is absolutely no conflict in this officer’s actions.”
OK, the two attacks on Obama’s support of gay marriage that I missed:
1. That he’s waffled on the issue. (In fact, that’s how I just heard NPR report it — “After months of waffling on the issue, President Obama today….”; which I was taught in college was “editorializing,” but that was an earlier era.)
2. That he did this solely to support wealthy Hollywood donors who wouldn’t write him checks otherwise. I’ve been seeing this one on social media.
Is there any base we’ve left uncovered now? Maybe supporting gay marriage is an alien plot masterminded by the clearly gay Marvin the Martian. Look for that one next.
Today in an interview with ABC News, President Obama came out (no pun intended) as saying he supported the right of same-sex couples to get married.
Here’s his actual quote:
“I’ve been going through an evolution on this issue. I’ve always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. At a certain point I’ve just concluded that, for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
So now I’m trying to predict how various Republicans are going to distort this.
I know if Santorum were still running, he’d say that Obama is in favor of people marrying streetlamps. Or, under the Obama plan, everyone must marry a San Francisco leather queen. He’s not running any more, but he’ll probably still say these things.
I think that Romney is more likely to say that now somehow you have to pay for other people’s gay weddings. I truly expect that one: It’s going to cost “us” when these gay people get married.
And I’m still trying to figure out how they’ll work in other Others (al-Qaeda; unions; socialists; wine-drinkers; people with college degrees), because clearly this is their work.
And I expect all of this to start… 20 minutes ago.