A Cat Picture Says A 1,000 Words

Roxy Music means a lot to me because the first time I saw me some naked blond titties (8th grade, yo), I was playing this. 

I was a Deahead when this came out.

Kiss Alive II was the first album I ever bought. This one might be Destroyer, err, something.

"We are not men..."

Abbey Road needs to be next, right.

I used to trip on the real album cover for hella long when I was a kid.

"She broke up the band."

This is my favorite. "What's America's motto, we buy, you die."

Sunglasses and leather jackets.

* Article on NPR

* The actual Tumblr site... Kitten Covers. You can follow MEEEeeeeeee on tumblr (at) guess what.....krissthesexyatheist.

The War On Science Funding

What happened to the GOP? Fo sho they are the party of "no", but now they are becoming the party of lies, untruths and deception. The war on science, and in this case science funding, has been going on for a while but it is in recent years, with the Christianization of the GOP, that the battle for research funding has become a war.

In these dire economic times politicians justly want to pinch pennies, after all good people are unemployed and families are struggling. But when the propaganda machine is rolled out and voters are deceived, then that is lame-o pants. Recently Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) made the claim that half a million dollars of tax payer money has been spent on shrimps on a treadmill. It would be totally bad...if it were true. The lie is that scientists spent money exercising shrimp, the truth is that shrimp on a treadmill is only part of the research and that the half a million dollars was spent on legitimate research.

Biologist Lou Burnett, "...and it suggests that much money was spent on seeing how long a shrimp can run on a treadmill, which was totally out of context." But voters wouldn't know that coming from the senator.

Another example from the Traditional Values Coalition (why do they always have names like that) claims that researchers spent 9.4 million to study, get ready for this...penis size. OK(?). The reality is that researchers were investigating sexually transmitted disease and no tax payer dollars were spent. Unfortunately once a group makes a statement like that the damage is already done.

The average voter doesn't have the time, or energy or even the want to investigate claims like this. Politics is learned through sound bites, one liners and emotion. The sad reality of it is that people do not even know why they know something (epistemology). They just hear a sound bite and think "yea, those scientists are wasting my money," or "Them dam immigrants are stealing jobs from good red blooded Americans (as if the average American would work in the fields. Right).

I used to have respect for the old school republicans. I was down for agreeing to disagree, but not anymore. When the GOP got hijacked by evangelical Christianity the battle emerged in the science classroom (evolution v  intelligent design), the history classroom (American exceptionalism and founding fathers) and now the battle to fund science.

There is a war going on peeps and we can't lose this one.

* NPR Shrimp on a treadmill.

The Ultimate Cockblock

Only a nerdy goober gets excited about a book and only a member of Team Atheist gets excited about a book about the sex lives of insects. I have not had this much excitement since I read Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice For All Creation (which I'm sure I reviewed, but I can't find it. le sigh).  This new book from Marlene Zuk is everything you wanted to know about the sex lives of insects, but ya  didn't ask because ya really didn't want to know. Any Who...

I haven't read it, yet, but I did listen to the interview on NPR. What is it about the sex lives of nonhumans that intrigues us. I remember when Sex Advice came out and all the water cooler talk was about those bottle nose dolphins and what sexual freeks they are. Sex On Six Legs looks like it will give us much to talk about in the days, weeks, months to come. Like...

Damsel flys do the ultimate cockblock. I thought the average bro dude downtown at the Friday Summer Concert Series was pretty petty and testosterone-y, but the Damsel fly puts the human counterpart to shame. Fly bro literally scoops out the sperm of the previous fly bro from his pretty lady. This is called sperm competition. Dude scoops out your sperm and replaces it with his own, thus ensuring that your genes go on to the next generation.

Some species of male insect give a protein pack to their lovely ladies to munch on. I see spermatophylax (the protein pack) is similar to me hanging a piece of chocolate from my neck when I go to a party-to attract the downtown fashionista species of Sacramento ladies. While the pretty lady insect is munching on the protein pack, the bro insect is, err...ya know.

If I said it a million times, I've said it....anyways. I'm a-gonna save up for this book. If it is anything like Sex Advice, then it will be well worth it.

Asweoemenss.

* NPR article Sex on six legs.

* Dr Tatiana (helllloooo) Sex Advice. Check it out, ya know you want to.

Conversion Therapy, NPR and Tight Shirts

I'm thinking I should change the name of this blog to the Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann Report since I write about her so much; but I don't have a photo of her six pack (which is mandatory avatar action). On NPR Morning Edition this morning the very controversial Conversion Therapy was a topic. It has been in the news a lot lately because Bachmann's husband (I'm not going to give him his own identity) has a clinic where, yes you guessed it, they claim to be able to pray away the gay.

The NPR report interviews two peeps, one that was cured of his gayness (he no longer listens to techno music) and one that, correctly, says that the techniques are harmful. Me I'm-a-gonna take the side of the American Psychological Ass. that states in their official report...

"The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality per se is a normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation (Bell, Weinberg & Hammersmith, 1981; Bullough, 1976; Ford & Beach 1951 ; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948; Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Gebhard, 1953 ). Homosexuality per se is not a mental disorder (APA, 1975). Since 1974, the American Psychological Association (APA) has opposed stigma, prejudice, discrimination, and violence on the basis of sexual orientation and has taken a leadership role in supporting the equal rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals (APA, 2005)."

You see, I'm not a conservative Christian evangelical right winger. When credible science comes out I accept it. After all just look at how the right are still debating the scopes monkey trial and Roe v. Wade and stem cell research. Pray away the gay, please. Concerning the gentleman that claims that reparative therapy cured him of his gayness, well, obviously, he was never gay...just curious. To say that homosexuality is a choice is saying that people are choosing to be a persecuted minority where mainstream society, wrongly, is abusive to them. It's genetics, homies.

All things being equal, if you can really pray away the gay, then theoretically you can also pray away the hetero. Imagine that peeps. If we prayed aways the hetero there would be world peace, no sexism and the sale of tight shirts (for our muscular, hairless bodies) would go thru the roof. As it is, you cannot pray away the gay, but you can be accepting of someone because...because we are all human and we are all in this together.

* APA official paper

* The mighty and funded for now, NPR

* Wiki.