Oh, you guys. Lazy cloudy Sundays are awesome for doing nothing at all. :D But you know me, I'm never actually doing nothing-- I'm at least metabolizing, but more often I am collecting links and other interesting things. BECAUSE I'M COOL LIKE THAT.

First, the mini-FSTs from my last post... seriously, go ask me for one, I love doing these! Nathan Petrelli from Heroes; Jack Carter from Eureka.

Politics! In order from most awesome to least awesome:

politisex. Picspams and discussion of all the hottest politicians! I believe that there is a new addition to the weekly lineup of awesome... Bunnsday, Caturday, and Silver Fox Friday. LEGENDARY! It includes love for pundits, so the MSNBC crew, the Coop, and other notable newspeople are fair game too.

50 facts about Obama that you may or may not know. WERE YOU AWARE that his Secret Service nickname was "Renegade"? That's so much cooler than Maverick.

Thousands of protesters in many different places in CA all coming out in protest of Prop 8. Also, picketing outside the Mormon HQ in Salt Lake City. The picture is what did me in-- in what world should someone's marriage license be displayed in protest? How completely fucked is the fact that Prop 8 passed? I really can't imagine that the courts will let it stand. We'll have to see...

It won't hurt that Obama has lots of placements to make to the federal courts when he takes office. Not to mention the likelihood of a number of Supreme Court justices retiring in the next 4-8 years... and Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, so he's got mad judge-judgin' skillz, plus the majority in Congress will make putting approvals through pretty damn simple. It's like a perfect storm of executive-legislative-judicial powers!

Speaking of a perfect storm, in Hebrew Barack means "lightning" and Rahm means "thunder" hoshit get out from under the Washington Monument, kids, or your asses gonna get struck! No, but seriously, that is cool. :D

Not cool: Students in a Mississippi high school are not allowed to mention Obama outside of history class. WAT? This is... so epically, epically stupid. I am going to stop there because I was about to show my Northern bias it'ssostupiditcouldonlyhappenintheSouth oops.

Away with you, politics! I move on to sciencey news!

Evolutionists flock to Darwin-shaped wall stain.

"It's a stain on a wall, and nothing more," said the Rev. Clement McCoy, a professor at Oral Roberts University and prominent opponent of evolutionary theory. "Anything else is the delusional fantasy of a fanatical evolutionist mindset that sees only what it wishes to see in the hopes of validating a baseless, illogical belief system. I only hope these heretics see the error of their ways before our Most Powerful God smites them all in His vengeance."

Itty-bitty nuclear reactors with no moving parts, no weapons-grade radioactive material, and almost no chance of being stolen will be on sale in the not-too-distant future. One plant can power 20,000 homes for 7-10 years, and they're small enough to be moved by truck. So here's my plan for the future: buy an island, buy a baby nuclear plant, come up with a badass flag, and start a country. Livejournal friends get automatic citizenship. xD

Mutation: it can make cheerleaders never die, cops read minds, politicians fly, and cure AIDS... wait, one of these things is not like the others. YOU GUYS. CURE FOR AIDS? It's not like a shot or a pill-- a bone marrow transplant is a big fucking deal!-- but completely clearing an infected person of their viral load is kind of epic!

Also lifesaving, but on a much smaller scale: Woman's life saved by her underwire bra. Serrated knife + underwire = not getting stabbed through the chest. Not bad for a $14 undergarment!

90 year old Chicago woman living with her three siblings... who happen to be dead. One of them dead for over twenty years. May I just say: EW.

Finally, may I suggest Fuck Yeah Sharks to brighten your day?