We hadn’t understood, until we watched this, how easy it is to measure distant stars: You start with a known quantity, and a few steps later, you’re applying that to the how much a star’s light shifts into the red spectrum by the time it reaches us.

The same would apply, we think, to somebody’s distance from reality, although we suspect that, like the galaxy, the distance increases each time it’s measured — so much so that some people can fairly be said not to exist in our universe at all.

[via Sully]

Going into the head section at 0:45 and at 2:46, it is nothing less than breathtaking how well the quartet lands ahead of the beat so perfectly in time with Steve Gadd, on drums. Finesse and a steely sense of time.

Vegan 145-pound comedian Jamie Kilstein offers to fight violence-inciting member of the Lucky Sperm Club and fiction-writer Jonah Goldberg. Sign the petition and tweet the Doughy Pantload @JonahNRO. Jamie is @jamiekilstein. Jonah sure didn’t bother to fight in Iraq; maybe he’ll fight this time around.

How many times was this guy wrongly pronounced dead?

Wrote this post about a year ago, and running it again because now it’s time for another annoying display of royal indifference:

And believe it or not, it’s not in a Rolls.

My interest in the Royal Wedding™ Diamond Jubilee™ is limited, so of course I wanted a car or cooking angle. Elizabeth II rides around in a heavily-modified Bentley, the donor chassis probably related to a Bentley Arnage. HRH likes a royal purple exterior and cloth seats, so that’s what the car has. Note also the high roofline and large windows – the Queen is an expensive indulgence, so the Brits should be able to see her as she passes by.  More on the car here.

Wisconsin’s Governor Walker (R-Koch) might lose even if he wins:

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Good riddance to one of the worst Republican governors in office.

Somehow, I don’t think this is what Jesus had in mind.

Frank Bruni of the New York Times shares with us yet another anti-gay video from a church service. This time it features a young boy in Indiana who can’t be more than three singing “Ain’t No Homo Gonna Make it to Heaven” to a wildly cheering crowd of adults and children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agsAZcA3fU

As Bruni notes, it is important to see these videos because especially those of us who live in certain parts of the country can get lulled into complacency that this vile hatred and prejudice is not still out there.

Tellingly, when I searched for “suffer the little children” on Google to confirm that was the wording of the passage in the Bible, what came up after the KJV was a link to a 1968 documentary about institutionalized child abuse at the Pennhurst State Hospital in Pennsylvania.

[Bruni: Hatred You Can Hum To]