May 12, 2009 at 11:16 am
· Filed under animals, news
Here’s the media bias again, favoring humans over animals again. We assume the 51-year old Chinese man’s penis was clean, though, right?
A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on Monday.
“As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up,” the China Times said. “When he looked down, he saw the big snake.”
The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said.
“As soon as he has passed the risk of infection, he can go,” the director, who declined to be named, said. “A snake’s mouth isn’t always clean.”
Local television images showed the black and yellow reptile, reportedly a species of rat snake, being uncoiled and plucked slowly from the toilet bowl.
Snakes regularly enter rural homes in Taiwan and other sub-tropical regions of Asia.
So the economy is still a disaster, but on the bright side, maybe these will be the people who have been responsible for sending me three credit card solicitations by snailmail every day for my adult life?
“My life is in God’s hands,” Palin said. “If he’s got doors open for me, that I believe are in our state’s best interest, the nation’s best interest, I’m going to go through those doors.”
Sarah Palin is relentless and unapologetic with the depth of her faith-based-lack-of-accountability. It’s stunning that anyone supports her. Even if her conviction or the strength of her faith seem compelling, surely it’s easy to see the fault in “any opportunity I see, I will take advantage of and it is God’s will that it turns out that way,” right???
In an address last June, […Sarah Palin…] urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it “God’s will.”
Yeah, Moses probably just forgot “Thou shalt build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline” when he was trying to keep all those other commandments in his head on the way down from Mount Sinai.
I’ve got to be the last person in the world to see this, but this homage to BillG’s last day at Microsoft from the last CES almost makes me wish I stuck around long enough to see the goodbye footage. I wonder how this year’s company meeting will go without him?
Also - I can’t help being reminded of this terrific video from about 8 years ago around this time as Clinton’s second term was wrapping up:
This flash animation is fascinating. It depicts the degree to which voters in different states and across varying demographic lines favored Obama or Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
In other news: Fuck Hillary. Obama clinched the nomination on Tuesday and she stillrefused to concede? I heard pundits on NPR who very correctly completely dismissed the notion that she would complement Obama’s “Dream Ticket” and basically said that his challenge now is to figure out how to get her out of the picture without completely alienating her supporters because it would show a clear lack of discretion (or weakness of leadership) to ask her to be his running mate. To me, the most mystifying aspect of the race for the Democratic nomination has been the inability of the Clinton supporters to recognize (or perhaps the incapacity to care) how negative and divisive her campaign was, up until the end.
From an article in Sunday’s New York Times about Chinese protesters in Seoul during the procession to the Olympics:
The South Korean police and Chinese students also overpowered at least two other protesters who tried to impede the run along a 15-mile route through Seoul. The route was kept secret until the last minute and was guarded by more than 8,300 police officers.
