Video of police in Denmark stopping bicyclists, hugging them, and giving them helmets.

I suppose if I ever get pulled over for speeding I could just ask if we can just settle this with a hug. I'm sure that would go over pretty well.

Looks like it takes an act of FL legislation and a $60,000 application fee.

Yeah, I wonder if they'd accept the $60,000 in Pirate Dollars....

Police in Denmark may hug cyclists without helmets, but don't try hiking naked in Switzerland.

really, I don't have to make stuff up

Yeah, I wonder if they'd accept the $60,000 in Pirate Dollars....

They likely didn't take it in jesus dollars either.

Yeah, I wonder if they'd accept the $60,000 in Pirate Dollars....

I'm pretty sure it has to be U.S. dollars. If it weren't for Bachmann you might also be able to pay in the one world currency.

I wish more reporters would make it regular policy to ask politicians "what the hell does that mean?" I think we'd all be better off if they did.

I've seen tile-floor fear on Dog Whisperer. Cesar almost didn't have the strength to force a great dane across an apartment lobby. But they all got over it eventually.

I saw that ep! And it wasn't just "eventually," but almost immediately--Cesar had that guy walking through the school within nine minutes, iirc.

And, go me! I just had a meeting about a new web application we're using for government websites. A few weeks ago, I decided to step it up and take charge of some things instead of being always the minion (I have been here 16 years now), so when they asked for volunteers to be app administrators, I spoke up. Well, the other admin and I had a presentation on the app to some of the editors, and between us, we hit all the highlights and actually sounded like we knew what the hell we're talking about. Yay!!

He definitely hates the tile. He was thrilled to discover that through the miracle of our second-floor deck, that the outdoors is available up there.

Michele Bachmann had this to say about the resurgance of swine flu:

“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.”

Wonkette sez:

Anyway, as Glenn Thrush notes at The Politico, the 1976 swine flu freakout was pretty famously an event during Gerald Ford’s presidency, with the semi-crazed response being a pretty famous reason why Ford lost his re-election campaign, and why there was a new president in 1976, the Democrat Jimmy Carter.

Michele Bachmann Learns of Serious Flu Scare, Decides To Speak Anyway

Makes me think of that time on Rachel's show where she made such a point of saying that someone was lying, and wondering why nobody in the press ever said it, Kathy.