Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Today is Jack Kirby’s birthday – Go, Barda, go!
- Villainy! – SMBC August 28, 2011
- Media Matters staff: Hoft Criticizes Obama’s Call For 9/11 Community Service As “Socialist” – Because caring for others in our community is clearly “statist idolatry” and the path to becoming a Commie. Or a Muslim. Or something. I mean, isn’t that was Jesus warned us about?
- Rick Perry Sought State Profits From Teacher Life Insurance Scheme – Classy!
- Right Wing Politicizes Hurricane Irene – Let’s see — if he gets involved, he’s grandstanding. If he doesn’t, he’s being negligent. You guys just enjoy bitching, don’t you?
- Talking about the weather | Pharyngula – “The private agencies don’t actually want NWS/NOAA to end, they just want them to stop distributing their information to the public for free (amusingly, AccuWeather has tried to copyright forecasts taken verbatim from the National Weather Service).” Ah. I see. There’s potential profit involved.
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1. I have recently taken to watching Warehouse 13 on SyFy. Recently it looked like the artifact being used was Jacob Kurtzberg’s belt, which granted the wearer great strength and the ability to control personal density. One of the agents had never heard of Jacob Kutzberg, and her partner responded, “Jack ‘King’ Kirby” and proceeded to start giving Kirby’s professional history until she interrupted him with something like “Yeah, yeah. Comic book stuff. Got it.”
Heh. But did it have a cool “crackle”?
Well, the artifact turned out to be something different (Charles Atlas’ workout trunks), so we didn’t get to see Kirby’s belt. It has replaced W. C. Fields’ juggling balls as my most desired artifact, though.