After missing last weekend's soccer game due to illness Leif was back on the field again Saturday. He's still never been on the losing end of a game as his team won once again. It wasn't his most brilliant game, he spent a lot of time jumping around and, oddly, windmilling his right arm so he often looking like he was doing rhythmic gymnastics rather than soccer. He did concentrate a bit more at the end of the game and drove the ball a couple of times. He has a great time playing.

A moose and a cat say 'hi'.

Mary's Monday Metazoan: Moments after this photo was taken, LOLMoose inhaled in a bid to take over the internet

From the value voters conference this weekend.

Info: Republican talking points, memes, gotchas and new conservatism

Coburn’s Chief Of Staff On Keeping Kids Away From Porn: ‘All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography’

Apparently, pornography turns people gay (well men at least, there doesn't seem to be any mention about women). This plays into my suspicion that the Internet is one giant gay conspiracy.

This came out of the breakout session on the new masculinity. In the words of the even organizers.

THE NEW MASCULINITY - Feminism has wreaked havoc on marriage, women, children and men. It is time to redress the disorder it has wrought and that must start with getting the principles and ideals for a new "masculinism" right. Such a "masculinism" will have its dovetailing counterpart in a new "feminism" for they mutually define each other and, in nature, are meant to be complementary.

Debra Monk was Sara Jane Moore on the original cast recording of Assassins (the one with Victor Garber as Booth). She also does a kickass performance of Everybody's Girl.

I know that I am preaching to the chior, but I DO NOT get the crazed homophobia.

From the value voters conference this weekend.

Here's a post from Sullivan:

A unique bit of logic from Michael Schwartz, chief of staff for Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). His interlocutor is Pat Fagan, of Heritage, who once described using contraception as turning heterosexual sex gay.

Playboy Will Turn Your Son Gay

I quit smoking my own cigarettes. Now I need to quit smoking Kristen's.

Nicotine gum has prevented me from killing anyone at work thus far, and I don't feel insane yet.

From My First Fail: Look Ma, I Did As Good As You!

A young girl's attempt to put on makeup....

Ooh - pretty car! Also, shiny!

Bugatti unveils chrome-layered concept car for 2013

When it comes to futuristic designs, copious amounts of shiny chrome go a long way towards selling us on nearly anything you can come up with. The new Bugatti Galibier 16C concept car not only goes heavy on the chrome, it actually manages to somehow merge the metal treatment with an interior swathed in old world wood grain and leather luxury.

Constructed using lightweight carbon fiber for the chassis and body, the Porche-like shape of the car ends in a set of eight sexy exhaust pipes that add a final sportscar accent to the design. The new Bugatti is expected to hit the market sometime in 2013, priced around seven-figures.

Seven-figures, huh? Time to start saving up....

can you contact the sender? They often have more pull with the shipping companies, since UPS doesn't care about pissing off you, but they care about pissing off Crate & Barrel or whoever.

That's an excellent idea. Thanks.

Happy Birthday Sophia!!