One of the main things that I took away was that Dr. Jonas Salk was definitely a cutie.
I stand by my statements. Beat Albert Sabin to a polio vaccine (even though Sabin did everything he could to try to discredit him and his research), and in the adorkable sweetheart race.
Carrie Fisher wrote a sad and bittersweet letter to Princess Leia. Read the whole thing here.
I absolutely and forever adore her.
Photo of the Day: Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD), who was recently recognized as the longest serving woman in Congress.
And now she has just become the first woman to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/barbara-mikulski-to-chair_n_2333849.html)
My senator is fucking awesome and I’m proud to have voted for her back in 2010.
Alan Moore walks through Northampton town centre carrying a walking stick that’s been sculpted to resemble a dangerous snake, and a hairbrush. The 59-year-old writer moves with a slight trip in his step, thus the cane, and keeps the brush to hand because he hasn’t visited a barber since he was a teenager. For decades Moore has maintained his tremendous mane of hair, his wizard’s beard, through bursts of aggressive combing. “That way it tends to manage itself.”
Alan Moore, eccentric genius behind graphic-novel classics V for Vendetta and Watchmen, rejected big-movie riches. Now he has made a low-budget film in his beloved home town, Northampton
Did you know our president pro tempore is fucking badass? I didn’t.
If you’re thinking “Wow, it sure looks like he’s missing an arm in that last picture” maybe you should just skip to here.
Rest In Peace, Senator Daniel Inouye. You are a true American hero, especially as a Japanese-American and a disabled American.
His last words were apparently “Aloha”.
Just Greg Graffin
Why Greg Graffin has been one of my punk heroes for almost a decade now.
Because I’ve never looked like a “standard” punk. I look like the kid next door that your parents always point out as being polite. I’m a “square” (A square going nowhere, to quote the Descendents). However, I could school you on punk music, history, and philosophy any day of the week. I choose to help the world through educating myself so that I can educate others.
| — | Yitzhak Rabin, 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture |
That was a thing that happened today.
I met motherfucking Daniel Clowes, the comic book genius behind “Ghost World”, “David Boring”, “20th Century Eightball”, “Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron”, and “Ice Haven”.
He signed my copy of “Pussey!” and was really nice.
“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.” — Kurt Vonnegut
This is probably the only 9/11-related thing that I will be posting today.
