Prepare for battle

Happy Monday,

Hope your weekend was good. After my sick wife sought and found health care on a sunny Sunday, it seems difficult to get fired up about universal health care and tax relief. So in case you need a little testosterone-fueled push to keep you going during the campaign season, here's a deft mashup of the new American Gladiators and the presidential primaries. Regardless of how you to choose to vote, the sight of a McCain-and-crossbones will definitely make you wonder.

Political Gladiators
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/62d0c815a1




The 25 Most Nonsensical Protest Signs
In this modern age of cynical detachment, where many people have difficulty expressing an opinion that isn't couched in layers of irony and "meh," there's something refreshing about protesters. These people actually care about something, so firmly and fervently that they're willing to get up and do something about it, even if that something is idiotic and/or just marching around and trying to work up a rhyme for "globalization." Yeah they smell, and they're usually shamelessly ugly, but there's just something so earnest about these people that we can't help but respect. Except for the stupid ones. It turns out there's a lot of those. Here are the 25 stupidest.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15850_25-most-nonsensical-protest-signs.html


Repetition is the highest form of flattery
A lot of books like these purport to have discovered the secret of achieving success. In a sense, this is no exception, being some 400 pages of "Work hard, keep going, focus" and variations thereof. I’m sure it works great if you can get past the monotony and occasional flashbacks The Shining.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1600372635/


QuOTeD
"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F. Kennedy


The Weirdest & Wackiest Scholarships You’ve Never Heard Of
Candy technologists? Duck calling? What the...??? No wonder the US is getting its ass kicked in education. Maybe this one should be billed as "ScholarPointless".
See the list >>


Rainbow puke
Lots and lots of multicolored art, inspired by the beautiful and poetical combination of rainbows and vomit. Enjoy.
http://www.rainbowpuke.com/


Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures
Finally, someone is trying to use the interweb for good to provide a public service with this do-gooder blog for lost memories.
http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/


Away.