I think it's another in a long line of suicide attempts...

Most people have to resort to something as pedestrian as a gun, a rope, or drugs.  Evidently for the extremely wealthy and extremely elderly, the preferred method is pussy.  Somebody please let me know when it's ok to feel bad for Hef for being so friggin old.  Hef's 24 year old fiancee... read

The road less traveled...

Is sometimes less traveled for a reason.  Sorry I haven't been updating here for a few weeks, this old comp I've been using has gotten a few trojans and/or viruses recently.  It's beyond me what point it is, sending out a program that almost completely cripples a computer.  What can anyone get from their attack if the victim can't use the computer at all?  Then there are the obvious things I've been seeing, the new tab that pops up telling me that I've won a $1,000 prize from Wal-Mart, or a new I-phone or playstation.  These people are pathetic.  It seems that even though I'm sure there is still something lingering deep within this comp, I've gotten rid of most of the problems.  I still don't feel safe enough to visit my bank account from here though.  I'll make it a point to come blog again every couple days, so I'm sure that will cause a huge celebration among my few faithful followers.  I wish I could have raved here a little more but I'm just not feeling very apocalyptic tonight.  If this trojan thing gets worse I'll whip up some fiery frenzy from the book of revelations.  See ya soon...

Something is going to happen... something wonderful...

A year or so ago, the lower reddish band that was visible even to amateur astronomers here on earth disappeared.  I just read that it has begun a re-appearance.  Evidently it was covered by an ammonia cloud this whole time.  The outer surface of Jupiter is composed of various chemical storms that have winds that get up into the hundreds of miles an hour on a regular basis.  No problem really, until the great red spot begins spewing forth thousands of monoliths... then we'd better be somewhere else.

All that you touch, and all that you see...
all that you taste, all you feel...
and all that you love, and all that you hate
all you distrust, all you save...
and all that you give, and all that you deal...
all that you buy, beg, borrow, or steal...
all you create, and all you destroy...
all that you do, and all that you say...
all that you eat, and everyone you meet...
all that you slight, and everyone you fight...
and all that is now, and all that is gone...
and all that's to come,
and everything under the sun is in tune...
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...................

All these worlds are yours except Europa.  Attempt no landings there.  Use them together.  Use them in peace.  And if you can't, go fuck a duck.

Who watches the watchers?

The International Space Station has had direct internet availability for a few months now, and the astronauts are having fun with it and getting the people down here involved as well.  They're taking tons of really cool pictures and sending them out, even involving people in games like "guess where it is" etc.  Kids in classrooms and adults alike are getting in on it, as some of the astronauts are using Twitter to keep people posted on what they're photographing right at that moment.  Read the article here.  And here is NASA's official site for these photos... NASA's site for searching images from the space station.  You can click on a map and see the images they've taken of where you live or anywhere else.  Some of the coolest stuff is weather features.  Huge storms look interesting from the other side, we're not used to what they really look like other than big dark gray masses of clouds. 

You're a boner-biting bastard uncle fucker

You fuck your uncle, yes it's true, no one fucks uncles quite like you... you know who you are.
Es gibt mehr hier Sie sexueller Abweichende

What about the time?
You were fallin' over
Fell on your face
You must be having fun
Walk lightly!
Think of a time.
You'd best believe
This thing is real

Put away that gun
This part is simple
Try to recognize
What is in your mind
God help us!
Help us loose our minds
These slippery people
help us understand

What's the matter with him? - (He's alright!)
How do ya know? - (The lord won't mind..)
Don't know no games - (He's alright!)
Love from the bottom to the top!
Turn like a wheel! - (He's alright!)
See for yourself! - (The lord won't mind..)
We're gonna move! - (Right now!)
Turn like a wheel inside a wheel!

I remember when
Sittin' in the tub
Pulled out the plug
The water was runnin' out
Cool down
Stop acting crazy
They're gonna leave
And we'll be on our own
Seven times five
They were living creatures
Watch 'em come to life
Right before your eyes
Backsliding!
How do you do?
These slippery people
Gonna see you through

What's the matter with him? - (He's alright!)
I seen his face - (The lord won't mind..)
How do you know? - (He's alright!)
And then we're going to the top!
Turn like a wheel! - (He's alright!)
See for yourself! - (The lord won't mind..)
We're gonna move! - (Right now!)
Turn like a wheel inside a wheel!

Alright!
The lord won't mind..
Alright!
Love from the bottom to the top!
Alright!
The lord won't mind..
Right now!
Turn like a wheel inside a wheel!

No dam problem at all, it seems...

This is really something... the location is the Diga del Cingino dam in northern Italy.  The really cool part is those little dark bumps on the front face of the dam.

Those are Alpine Ibex just hanging around licking minerals off the rocks.  (As always, click the pics for bigger, more detailed versions.)  Must be nice not to be bound by that pesky gravity thing that seems to fuck us humans up so often.  Video of a death-defying, gravity ignoring ibex...  Evidently the steep face of the dam is just like the cliffs these goofballs typically hang out on.  Seems a little like unnecessary thrillseeking, like the birds that fly within inches of the front of your car.  Maybe they're just trying to piss us humans off.  You have to admit it's a little humbling... or maybe it's humiliating, that an animal with a brain the size of a lime can do something like this so casually.  I'm sure a human could climb up the face of this dam, but let me see one just go out and walk across it upright like this.  Plus, it's like an "in your face" thing, isn't it?  I mean, what's next, they line themselves up just right to spell out "up yours, dumbasses"?  Maybe we need to teach them a lesson, who in fact is the biggest and the strongest.  We have the Atomic Bomb.  Screw you ibex and your anti-gravity dam licking.  In the words of a very wise man, "Drop the bomb.  Exterminate them all."

It's the weekend!

Another one for the cause...

Ok here's another drawing I did over the weekend to try to make a few bucks from the PUFMM movement to legalize medical marijuana here in Florida.  Click the pic for a bigger version.  I guess PUFMMWLAIAB would be more accurate, People United For Medical Marijuana While Lounging Around In A Bikini.  I'll have to speak to someone about that.  Anyway I'm trying to see if we can get cheap prints made of this and the other one to sell for a few dollars at the events my friend goes to.  Maybe in a month or so I'll have several different ones so people have a wider choice and chances of them forking over $5 increase.

Here are a few ideas I was thinking about for Brian's next endeavour.  Rodeo clown, door to door vacuum cleaner salesman, speedwalker, Coast Guard.  I'll think of more.

Survivor tonight, here's hoping this is the night Naonka is finally voted off the island.  Getting REALLY sick of her bullshit.

And because today's post is clearly light on content, I'll throw in a bonus.  What's the best pizza topping?  In my opinion, sausage, pepperoni, and real bacon... but this is a hell of an idea, a pizza topped with assorted mini-pizzas.  Somebody was thinking outside the box on this one.

Brian's New Tattoo

Nice!  But you were wrong about me not posting it.  Get on your blog!  Tell Mike to get going on his too.

Nothing like a nutjob chasing a dream...

I saw an article in the news today about this guy, Yves Rossy who flies around on a jet powered wing suit.  Pretty freakin amazing, I bet he has some serious fun with this thing.  The article about the jet wing suit is here.  I looked and there are several good videos of it too, here's one.  Video of the jet wing suit here.  I hope these things never get to the point of being available to any dumbass with the money to afford it, we'll have them crashing into buildings either by accident or on purpose.  Imagine the chaos when people who can barely handle a car get hold of these things.  I can imagine closing time for a bar, out in the parking lot a dozen or so drunken fools strapping themselves into their suits and blasting off at crazy angles and spirals like some kind of cheap Chinese fireworks.  And out of a dozen, none make it home alive... they're found the next day twisted in the branches of trees, diced by fences, and in the smithereened wreckage beneath mysterious red scorch marks on buildings, bridges, and billboards.  How's that for a nice happy thought to start the weekend?  Anyway, it's the weekend!  It's almost time for me to kick down the door to the rum locker, I hope everyone else has similar plans.  Remember, if you're going out, you need to know how to change a tire or you might get turned into a centipede.  Speaking of which, I found a pic of a pretty nice human centipede.  Sorry, I had to do it.  A thing like this must be shared. 

Almost time to get ill...

Many years ago my buddies and I discovered the unrated version of Caligula, and decided that it was the most fucked up movie we had ever seen.  We watched it often.  A few years later, I turned my brother Brian on to it, with the warning that "Once seen, it cannot be unseen".  He agreed that it was definitely the most disturbing movie out there.  For years the movie held that title, but Brian informed me last week that a new contender had appeared on the horizon.  In his opinion it had even surpassed the unrated Caligula on the brain warp-o-meter.  So my copy of The Human Centipede arrived today, and in an hour or so I'm going to open an uncharacteristic weeknight beer, have a shmoke, and watch it to see for myself.  I've been warned that this movie as well cannot be unseen once it's been seen.  I accept this and am as prepared as I'm gonna get.  Looking forward to it.  I'll post my review after I watch it if I'm not drooling on myself or on my way to a mental hospital.

I wonder if my brother has the balls for one of THESE...

So Brian has been racking up the miles with his new bike for a few weeks now, but there are still new frontiers to explore.  This thing is called a Uno Moto, from what I read I guess it works like a Segway.  Not that I've tried one of those yet so I don't know, but it's keenly attuned to balance and goes forward when the operator leans forward and the brakes work when leaning back.  I don't think I like the idea, I mean how do you not lean back just a bit when you take off?  I can't imagine taking off really fast, you'd be trying to lean forward to scoot ahead but the faster you tried to go, the more backward you'd be pulled resulting in braking.  Plus I would want the luxury of immediate brakes at my fingertips (or toes) in an emergency and not have to hope I could change my balance before slamming into something.

Still, a couple teams of several of these things would definitely make for an interesting modern form of Zoo Zither Karzay.  I think though that it's ultimately going to be looked at as more fatal than enjoyable.  Now, General Grievous had a sweet ride, that monocycle had the right physics in mind.  The gyroscope effect would keep that thing upright at even fairly slow speeds.

Not to mention that it also had four retractable legs and could run like an animal if it needed to.  Maybe some day someone will build something like this that we all could use, and without South Park's unique flavor of humor involved, remember the "it"?

Oh, wait, they did!  Seems that all a person needs is a large supply of engineering talent, a very comfortable bank account, and the luxury of immortality, given the risks involved in the experimentation phase of the project.

Now all we need is for some company to come along and take care of the testing and dying problems for us regular folk... oh wait, they did!

Ok, these only go 25 mph off a 31cc four stroke 1 1/2 hp engine, but whatever, seems like the future to me.  We gotta get people out of those gigantic monstrosities they drive around in these days.  (I know, families.  The absolute biggest non-commercial vehicle on the road should be the size of a PT Cruiser.  And commercial vehicles have to stay to the bigger roads.  Non-commercial roads should look something like Central Park in NYC.)  Lower speed limits, more fun, and Valium and Xanax available at every fast food restaurant.  And when the light goes yellow and you're in the stopping zone, your engine automatically cuts power down.  No more "I'm immune to red lights" syndrome.  Yeah.  Elect me King... I'll create a world worth living in.  So Brian, which one is next???

Huh, what?

Seems like the problem I have of people at work and even close friends not hearing a fucking word I say has expanded to include a conversation with me not even being remembered a mere 24 hours later.  It's getting really depressing seeing the brains of people I once thought of as fairly intelligent simply turning to mush.  All I needed was a phone call telling me that the plans had changed... instead, I had to assume (correctly) that I had been forgotten... so I called.  I get "We talked yesterday?"  If I had gone with my first inclination, I would have given the friend the benefit of the doubt and waited a day for a call.  Might not have even remembered ME at that point.  Chuck WHO???  Anyway on a different topic I did this drawing for the activist movement that's becoming popular here lately.  Florida's medical marijuana bill comes on the ballot in 2012, and we're doing what we can.  I have more planned... maybe I can do 12 total and have a calendar printed or something.  The news had a few interesting things today but since I'm fucking pissed off, here's some video of a guy getting his head blown off by a collar bomb.  Enjoy.

Click here for the video

But is it art?

Ok, it's an interesting "hotel room" but it's kind of creepy just sitting there on display in a museum.  As long as the exhibit is in town, people can stay overnight for 1,000 Euros ($1400) and they have the run of the museum the whole time.  I'd still feel strange as part of a museum display though.  I could see an entire hotel with rooms like these, maybe elevated on cylinders you go into at the bottom, an elevator takes you up about 100' to the room which is this, only under a clear dome.  The rotating disks the bed and tables are on would be cool in a setup like that.  Here, all you're going to see when the thing rotates is the other side of the room.  Imagine, high up in the air, at night in a raging thunderstorm... then at daylight, you look out at the ocean on one side, a jungle below, and mountains on the other side.  I should open a hotel like that.  I wonder if I could get a $10 million bank loan?  Anyway, read about this "art" by Carsten Holler here... Rotating Hotel Room

And on a sadder side of the news, this is from a few days ago.  The female version of "dead man walking".  Marisol Valles Garcia has taken over the job of police chief in a town in Mexico that's right in the middle of rival drug gangs.  She's only 20 and not even finished earning her degree in criminology.  I can't figure out why she's doing this, these drug gangs think nothing of taking out the police as well as their rivals.  They generally dismember bodies and leave the pieces piled up or scattered about.  Sometimes it's just the head delivered in a box.  The gangs have assault weapons, and the police force (of about a dozen illiterate men) has mostly shotguns, and a few pistols.  Her plan is to recruit more women to fill in the depleted force, and then go door to door educating people about the drug gangs and their effect on the community, as if it weren't already obvious.  Although I'm not part of any dead pools regarding this girl, I'm sure there are plenty.  I read about her first on the 20th.  I was predicting that she won't make it a month.

Brian's next tattoo...

I had this one in mind for a week or so, there's a tattoo place that just moved in recently a few stores down and the owner has been in to have several skull themed pieces framed... and there's something to do with roses in the business name.  I did this one in about 6 hours.  Probably a little slow but I did a pencil sketch first, then ink then the color.  So now I'm trying to do artwork specifically tailored to the people who frequent the stripmall.  I remember back when I ran a gallery in an actual mall, that was great.  Thousands of different tastes walking by every day.  Anyway I feel like I'm an artistic fisherman, baiting a hook and casting out right to that specific fish over in those weeds.  So Brian, hope you like it, I want to see it on your shoulder by this weekend.  And Jen, seriously, tell me what you want as specific as you can and I can make it for you.  Something with a faerie?  Some tribal shapes?  I saw the ones on your blog, so if you can, gimme a few more details to cruise on.  By the way, it's almost the weekend!

Ahhh, the future...

I smoked my first transparent joint tonight.  I keep telling myself that there will still be the occasional reason to live that pops up from time to time, and here's one.  Now if they could make these skins glow under a blacklight they'd really have something.  I totally felt like I had been cryogenically frozen and reawoken at some point in the future while smoking this.  Well, maybe it wasn't entirely the wrap.  I guess this fucked up retarded society isn't absolutely completely useless after all.  Woohoo!  Ok so I got some partying out of the way today so maybe I can put some time into my artwork this weekend as I'm on somewhat of a roll.  I'd like to request at least 2 days of solid rain, complete with furious thunder and lightning around the clock.  Yeah.  I can work to that. 

It's almost the weekend!

Well, I'm trying to spend my artistic time doing things I can finish more quickly lately.  Damn, I should have been banging these out back when the movie was hot!  I could have sold them like hotcakes.  I started this one this afternoon around 3.  I wonder if I'll get more than ol' Jack did for his... 10 cents would be a bit on the low side.  Click it for more detail.

So it looks like the Chilean miners are coming up starting late tomorrow.  And everyone up top has their entire future planned, including getting them back to "being themselves" and plans to administer the profits they might be offered for TV, books, movies and appearances.  Lest they squander their new found riches.  It's nauseating to read how these poor guys are going to be treated once they're up.  I hope it doesn't come out as bad as it sounds.  Read this nauseating garbage here

Waitress, I'd like some Deep Throat with a side of Tongue...

Reminds me a little of an ex-girlfriend of mine except hers wouldn't stop moving long enough for a decent picture.  Plus it wasn't quite like this babe, she could paint a house with this thing.  Speaking of babes, check out the optical illusion I added to the left side of the blog, below the blog archive.  Weirdest fucking illusion I've ever seen, seems that if you see her going clockwise you see her with your right brain (aesthetics, emotions, creativity) and if you see her going counter-clockwise you're using your left brain (logic, analytical and accuracy).  You should be able to make her change direction by concentrating... or try looking away just enough so that you can imagine her going the other way and then look back slowly.  In the beginning it took me 15 minutes to get her to change direction but now I can do it in a second or so.  Very cool illusion.  Ok, gonna go make a middle of the night cheeseburger, no salad... come to think of it, I don't think tongue girl up there is the salad type either.  She wants meat and in large quantities.  If ya know what I mean.  Here's something for you salad freaks.  Selah.

Just plain not fair...

In all the time I spent on a bike, in my childhood and the times I was in between cars riding everywhere, never anything like this.  What a world.  This morning my day started with my bedroom DVD player crapping out.  I'm hoping it's just the old disk I was playing, I'll play with it this weekend and hopefully it'll come back.  I hope so, I can't listen to the idiots on the morning show any more and the radio music in the bedroom sucks.  I might have to put some Pink Floyd on the real stereo but that's out in the living room.  Gonna have to make it loud.  However, I have to say that I'd prefer the topless 20 year old.  So I tried at work today to get a better shot of my painting, and I could only get good color if it was in direct sunlight, and then there was considerable glare.  Anyway for anyone who hasn't seen it, it's at the bottom of the last post.  Well, nothing much in the news today so in the spirit of close encounters, here's a pic of a guy who wasted a ton of money on a completely useless telephoto lens.  Enjoy.

Hey, who farted?

Ok obviously not much going on, a nice quiet Friday night.  I just finished a pretty big painting tonight so I'm kind of celebrating.  Yeah, it's not really big but 26" X 41" is a little above average for me.  I started it a couple years ago and the closet ate it for a while then I dragged it back out a few days ago and decided it needed to be finished off.  I tried to take a picture but I guess I need to do that in daylight, the flash tends to ruin it.  I'll get a better shot tomorrow outside and post it.  I just got this loaner comp to accept my printer which has the port for my camera flash card so now I can upload from my camera.  I still need my old files etc and a decent comp to set up a nice web page of all my art though.  I'm trying a bunch of different styles these days, this new painting isn't one of the new ones but it looks pretty cool.  Some day I hope to stumble across a style that works and people really go for it and I become rich enough to say "Fuck You" to the dumbasses and be able to retreat into a house in the middle of 500 acres of woods, swamps and hills with moats and machine gun nests and electrified fences and razor wire.

On a lighter, less self-centered side of the near future, the good news is that the space program might actually be something to look forward to after all...  Obama is putting a bill through that looks like it's going to pass, one that insures that we not only get at least one more shuttle flight beyond the proposed last one next February, but that we immediately begin work on the next heavy lift-off rocket to further the exploration of space, and it makes significant reference to "beyond low Earth orbit" capabilities.  That means the moon, among other things.  In my opinion we should probably already have a small outpost on the moon if for no other reason than to shut down those "we never went to the moon" people.  Anyway, it seems like a logical place to conduct the first experiments for how we're going to handle going to places like Mars and the exotic vacation planet Risa.  Here's the bill, click the link.  I found titles II and III the most interesting.

Library of Congress search
Type in  S. 3729 in the search, that brings you to the bill.  Then look at "Text of legislation" and look at the most recent item, it was up to 3 today.  After that you can read the whole bill but II and III were best as I said.  I tried to link the text page but it times out after 30 minutes.  Maybe it works anyway if you go straight to it.  Try this link first.  Try this, text of legislation bill S. 3729

Last but definitely not least, there's this...  In Zelda Twilight Princess...

What you're seeing is four bottles of purple juice, the fairy tears.  That means I got one from Jovani, and did the Cave of Ordeals three times for three more fills of the juice.  (The only way to get multiple bottles of it.)  The Cave of Ordeals gets harder each time so this is kind of something to lust after.  Who's your daddy.

Well, it took a while to get a halfway decent shot, and it still looks kinda washed out but it's close enough.  I think to get a good picture I have to have just the right light. I think clicking it gives you the full size and it might look better and more detailed there.  I don't think even full size it shows the highlights in the dolphins' eyes and a lot of other details.  Whatever, hopefully I can trade it for some money.

Dinner and a show...

Ok, I guess they're too cool for us to eat, but I imagine that any other sea creature that eats one gets a nice light show and possibly a monstrous mutation beforehand.  If I had an office to decorate and enough money so that it wouldn't put me out to spend about 20k on a wall sized aquarium, I'd fill it with these guys.  The following link is a page with several short videos showing the amazing effects that the cuttlefish are capable of.

NOVA videos of amazing cuttlefish

This would be small but acceptable, but two or three times the size would be more like it.  Also the lighting would need tweaking, as well as the addition of a a few palms on either side and maybe ferns of assorted texture.  Then a coffee table and a nice leather couch facing it, a mini fridge built into the coffee table, a couple lava lamps, blacklights, and a fine glass hookah and I'm ready for work.  Anybody wanna come work for me?  Hah!  I can tell you that there would be no need to yearn for the weekend.  Which it almost is, by the way! 

Hey Kylie, nice to see you!  How's everything?  I'm hoping the recent troubles have worked themselves out and life is getting back to something resembling normal.  You had a visor for the flourescent lights?  Sounds extreme but probably worked, I never thought of that.  I usually wear a ball cap so I'm pretty much visored at all times anyway.  I bet without it I'd be annoyed by the constant bright lights.  As for the Xmas lights, I've been doing that too since the landscape lights died, I have a couple strings of blue and green I light up on the weekends.  Normal lights suck, don't they? 

Alright, no recent news worth ranting about except that dumbass Lindsay Lohan making a mockery of drug and alcohol use, and Old Rose from Titanic died over the weekend at age 100.  I'm hoping this time she managed to die without first throwing away a zillion dollar gemstone.  The odds are pretty solid.  :D

Wouldn't it be nice...

I guess in Sweden, a little creativity goes a long way.  This is the Pionen Data Center in Stockholm, a data storage facility built in an old fallout shelter.  They decided to make it an enjoyable place to work, and it looks like they did a pretty good job.  I suppose they had to do something to mitigate the depressing aspects of an underground shelter with the occasional rock walls and no windows, and they really set an example the rest of the world would do well to follow. 

This round conference room has a view of their servers and the floor is painted like the moon.  I think "work" might be a lot less like "work" if we could enjoy a setting like this, or any number of different themes, but any change from they typical white walls and white flourescent lights would be something to be happy about. 

See more of the Pionen Data Center here

I suppose it wouldn't totally cure how much work can suck, for example I still can't seem to get a simple work order put through to me that I don't have to take back and ask for clarification, but constant chaos makes it even worse.  A nice relaxing work area would go quite a way in making the day more enjoyable and less stressful.  I'd love to see creativity and a little fantasy used more liberally in public places.  Would it be so bad if you could shop in a supermarket that looked like this?  I'd shop there.  I used to have colored landscape lights strung around my living room with the lights shining up on the walls much like this place, but they were old and after several years they went defunct and I haven't replaced them yet.  I still keep it dark though and indirectly lit with blacklights, candles, and a lava lamp of course.  When and if the economy recovers and I'm able to afford it, I plan to set up a new set of landscape lights and some more plastic trees and ferns.  I don't think I'll do the smoke machine though, I'd never see the cats.  Just a couple tails cruising around like submarine periscopes.  Ha!

Only two left...

The shuttle Discovery is being readied for its November 1 launch, the second to last mission of the space shuttle program.  It's going to be pretty boring until we start another program of space travel.  Until then I guess we'll be bumming rides from Russia and China.  Some way for the USA to travel, huh? 

I just finished Under The Dome, and it was really good.  I was expecting a book of over a thousand pages to get into too much detail, I thought I'd be reading the whole life story of every major character, but it wasn't like that.  Stephen King really put together a good story, populated it with interesting characters, and once again thought up a plot and an ending that was totally enjoyable and gripping.  He puts you in the town which was cut off from the outside by a transparent dome, and once you're in there as well, you have to dedicate yourself to reading and reading, to get to the end and hopefully relieve the claustrophobia that comes from the isolation.  Very good book, and I recommend as did everyone I know who's already read it. 

Well, I'm not sure I'm going to be updating here as much in the near future.  It took me about 40 minutes today from the time I turned on this old loaner comp till I could do anything... between the log on process and it locking up and refusing to shut down, having to unplug it to shut it off, then logging on another time.  Very frustrating, to wait that long just staring at a machine that might or might not be working.  I'll be around, but I don't think I'll be doing this every day.  I just lost all my calm getting it going tonight.  And I was happily calm.  At least it's almost the weekend!

So much for "Go with God..."

Maybe it's just me, but if I were God and needed to call my faithful followers to my side I might just be considerate enough to take them in their sleep.  I mean, isn't God supposed to PROTECT you from horrible things like this crash?  A church van blew a tire and flipped on the New York State Thruway.  Read here... Church bus crash  I sure hope it didn't have a "Jesus is my co-pilot" bumper sticker.  Oh well, maybe some day the uber religious will realize that random is the word of the day when it comes to life.  Bad things happen to good people, even righteous church going folk, and bad people sometimes live their whole lives without ever being punished, live good lives and die peacefully.  It's the way the world works.  God, if he exists at all, doesn't intervene.  Obviously.

And on the subject of crashing, something that's just plain STUPID...

 Every time I see one of these "smart" cars I think how I'll never get into one.  I know it sports an inner framework capable of handling quite an impact, but still there's no denying the odds that it will be crushed like a bug, as in the picture, flattened in a sandwich style front and rear accident, or go rolling off into the distance like a bowling ball, shattering every bone of its occupants as it does so.  Here's a video that shows both its strengths and weaknesses.  In my opinion the weaknesses are just too scary.  Not to mention just riding in the damn thing.  I wonder if there was a reason they didn't put crash test dummies in it?  Smart car crash test