These make me happy

Do you get it now?

This one also makes me happy…do you want a real penguin, or a pet penguin?

and now for the weird…this song is catchy

MMM 409: “Pyramid” in Antarctica!

Except it isn’t.  Well, not in the sense of having been built as a structure for human use, it’s a natural formation, noted by explorers as a “pyramid” as far back as AD 1913.

At least that’s what “they” want you to think.  It’s not like anyone not on the right lists is allowed to go check or anything.

MMM 397: Nevalı Çori

This is a temple site not far from Göbekli Tepe in the Anatolia region of modern Turkey.  Organics buried at the site date it to approximately the same time period; active use between 8400 BC and 8100 BC.  Structurally, it has much in common with Göbekli Tepe, stone pile walls, some large standing stones, and some carved walls.

Temple area.

MMM 389: Göbekli Tepe

This is the mother of all archaeological crackpot magnets.  Not because of its size (though the site is large) or its grand height (it was buried for almost 10,000 years), but because radio-carbon dating gave us reliable estimates of the age of its construction (~10k BC at the latest) and the time at which it was buried under sand and sediment (~ 8000 BC).  We don’t know why it was buried, if it was deliberate human activity or if some catastrophic event.  The age of its founding is a serious shift for anthropology, because it either implies that hunter-gatherers could (and would) build enormous temple structures, or that dawn of agriculture was a at least a full 2 millennia earlier than is currently believed.

Meme was Yesterday

No, we haven’t skipped Tuesday, stay tuned!

I know, you were scared. It’s ok.

I’ll give you some memes now.

Thorsday Filler – Liars Abound

“”The Truth Behind Pathological and Compulsive Liars

We all lie, but some people take it to extremes, destroying careers and relationships in the process.””

The lying going on is stupefying. Normally we would blame it on mare – ‘cuz you know – whore, but the current level is Soviet era propaganda level lying, so she’s off the hoof.

Holy Moly how in the universe can anyone with an IQ over 60 actually believe any of the crap that’s coming out of DC and the denizens thereof?

You really should go do something more meaningful than read this pos post

Things mawr meaningful:

 

How about taking up knitting:

Lies, Damnable Lies – POS Calumny

Imagine my surprise when aspersions were flung at me recently!!!

November 28th is Head Day – POS Observances

That may be a somewhat concatenated  version of an amazing international day of ponderous ponderings… I’ll let you decide.

Other amazing factoids about November 28th:

1) a metric buttload of people we’ve never heard of were born this day in history

&

2) a surprising number of people we’ve never heard of, or really gave two craps about drew their last breath – including jeffrey dahmer who interestingly enough kept heads in his refrigerator – coincidence or a TRUE Believer in the Observance of Head Day…. you be the judge.

Gender Neutral Russia

I’ve always been fascinated with Mother Russia. Wait. Is that triggering? I guess we should start calling it gender neutral Russia. You know mothers can be fathers right? I’ll start over.

I’ve always been fascinated with cisRussia. Not today’s pussy version; the full blown commie war machine that defeated the Nazis with their incredibly effective strategy of throwing about 9 million young men into the maw of Hitler’s army. Either march forward and get blown away, or retreat and get shot by your own guys. Touch choice for the Igors.

Total WWII casualties are thought to be around 20 million but no one really knows for sure. To put that into perspective, the glorious CCCP lost the equivalent of today’s population of NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia. Or as most of the blog would say, ‘a good start.‘

Much like you, I’m really amused at the Russian follies going on in the media. It’s really driven by two factors: 1. They still don’t accept the outcome of the election and 2. a total lack of historical perspective prior to 2005. It’s just fucking awesome to watch the political/media brain trust try figure out the basics of Russian geography, let alone culture. Pretend you know nothing. Now pretend you are in a soundproof, lightproof box buried under the Siberian tundra. You are more prepared to discuss Russia than Brian Stelter, Steven Colbert, or Katy Tur.