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82 year old Connecticut man who gives free haircuts to the homeless harassed by government officials

  Anthony “Joe the Barber” Cymerys has been a fixture every Wednesday for years at Bushnell Park, where he cuts hair and his friends hand out food to the needy. But shortly after Cymerys set up shop this week, he said, health officials and police confronted him and his friends and told them they hadContinue Reading

You are hurting your kids by exposing them to anthropomorphized animals reinforcing “socially dominant norms” like nuclear families and gender stereotypes.

A Raaaaacist Nuclear Family Aardvark! Update: I might have spoken too soon: I just realized that Arthur’s creators removed his natural aardvark nose and replaced it with a…well little dots for nostrils one.  And then they made him yellow with glasses so he looks like I.M. Pei.  The raaaaacism is there if you just look hard enough forContinue Reading

Putin steals Patriot owner’s Super Bowl ring?

WTF? Update: Vlad denies he stole it.Continue Reading

A Bike for the Jetson Family

It’s not an American Flyer. It’s Czech. A group of companies in the Czech Republic have teamed up to build a prototype of an electric bicycle capable of flying. The prototype is controlled remotely while in development, but its designers hope to have it capable of carrying people soon. They also hope battery technology will advanceContinue Reading

Separated at Birth: Snowden and …

My BsCN co-blogger Evil Blogger Lady has a good post about an Ed Snowden doppelganger over at her place, HERE, but every time I see the now notorious NSA leaker I keep thinking of the Canadian one-hit-wonder rapper named Snow, and I have to laugh given the title of Snow’s one-hit song. See for yourselfContinue Reading

BSC Naked Spiritual Quest

TOM reports on a 19 year old (naked) women who disappeared in Gifford National Forest in Washington State (she was supposedly on a spiritual quest).  I hope this turns out well for her, but she has to recognize most large predators are on a gastronomical quest most of the time and there are plenty of cougars and bears in thatContinue Reading

Cicadas by the billions burst out of Chris Christie’s belly and swarm New Jersey…

Okay, they came out of the ground, but they are still cool to see…  Kenya and Tanzania have the wildebeest migration.  New Jersey has cicadas.  Looking for love and breeding so the next 17 cycle can come. The spent molt skins of the cicadas cover the ground…Continue Reading

Walking Dead Actress Shannon Rogers Guess accused of sending ricin letters to Obama and Bloomberg…

Alleged to have done so to set up her husband in a nasty divorce. Everyone is presumed innocent in the courts, but if this is true it is definitely BSC! h/t: Gateway PunditContinue Reading

New Age self help hosts of the radio show “Pursuit of Happiness” commit suicide by helium inhalation

I am sympathetic, but this is (beyond ironic) BSC.Continue Reading

La Llama es un Quadrupedo

Leon County deputies were on the lookout for an unusual fugitive over this past weekend—a llama on the loose in Tallahassee. Scooter the llama had escaped from his owners and was running free the Killearn Lakes area of northern Tallahassee, leading deputies from the Leon County Sheriff’s Office on a chase that lasted from late FridayContinue Reading