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George H. Gobel is an engineering professor at Purdue. Back in 1996 or so, he was attempting to design the perfect method for lighting a barbeque. After many trials and the occasional error, he settled on liquid oxygen (LOX) as a lighter fluid. Brilliant idea! The coals are perfect!

However, the barbeque grill was vaporized.

With the 4th of July coming up in a couple of weeks I thought I’d resurrect them.

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME! Turkey fryers are SO much safer…

Have a safe and happy 4th of July.

Photo/video credit: Joe Cychosz

See the video here:
http://jeff.nieusma.com/toys/grillx.mov

On the way over to Whole Foods today I saw an odd vehicle, a white Cadillac hearse. I said, “What the f**k kind of hearse is white?”

My husband’s answer: “A bridal hearse?”

Dark, really dark.

East Coast Lawnmower Dark T-Shirt > East Coast Lawnmower > The Bipolar Planet Manic Mall | CafePress

Wow, it’s the perfect t-shirt for Father’s Day. Don’t tell Mr. X I made him one for his birthday instead of buying him that riding mower he thinks he’s getting.

I think I’m finally getting the hang of this Adobe Photoshop thing. I am tragically untalented.

“…Look, without humor we would all have committed suicide. We made fun of everything. What I’m actually saying is that that helped us remain human, even under hard conditions.”
– Holocaust survivor, quoted by Dr. Chaya Ostrower, PhD of Beit Berl College, Israel
in Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust

I came across the above quote this morning while checking the Pendulum listing on dmoz.org. Holocaust humor? WHAT????

The article above is about the victims of the death camps using humor to stay sane in an inhuman, insane situation. Humor is a great coping mechanism. If it worked for people who lived in the shadow of a crematorium, it can certainly work for us.

No, there was nothing funny about the Holocaust. There is nothing funny about genocide. There is nothing funny about a thing that goes beyond hate, that stigmatizes, dehumanizes, and then brings formerly rational human beings to methodically exterminate their next-door neighbors.

“Holocaust” means “complete burning.” The word Holocaust is technically used to refer to the six million Jewish victims. The goal was to exterminate an entire race just because they weren’t Christian. Ok, well, there were other factors, but nobody had to wear an “successful” badge. They had to wear a Judenfleck.

I am misusing the word to include the three million non-Jewish victims. Feel free to comment.

My personal interest in the Holocaust focuses on the “Aktion T 4,” the Nazi euthanasia program to eliminate “life unworthy of life”. The Nazis tuned up the Death Machine on mental patients before grinding through the other 9,000,000 victims.

Nine Million. Can you even get your brain around such a number? That is like murdering the inhabitants of SIX Philadelphia, PAs. (Philadelphia population is from the Census Bureau’s State & County QuickFacts.)

“The murder of the lunatics contains the key to the Pogrom of the Jews…”
– Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
quoted in The Cynical Republic, “Haus des Eigensinns – House of maddening beauty”

I’ll be talking about this some more.

Technorati: suicide Nazi holocaust T+4+Aktion mental+illness Judenfleck

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

This would be funny if it weren’t so plausible.

“Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,” Carson said. “What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’”
–Dr. Ellen Carson, a leading Intelligent Falling expert known for her work with the Kansan Youth Ministry.

Charlton Heston died yesterday. They’re still trying to pry the gun out of his cold, dead hands.

Despair.com: Parody Heart Generator

Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Valentines Day.

Ok, I know that there are some valentines nasties going around. I even blogged it. This looks like them. It’s not. Despair.com is one of my favorite web sites.

It’s a candy heart slogan generator that creates a candy heart picture for you to send to your friends. Enjoy!

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Hangin’ twenneh!

2008 handsome priests calendar - Calendario Romano

Not just for kids any more - now you too can have your own hunky priest… calendar.

Piero Pazzi’s Calendario Romano features handsome Roman priests and beautiful Vatican churches. The calendar helps raise funds for London HIV charity The Food Chain.