Go Girl

A perfect stocking stuffer for active women, GoGirl allows the simple convenience of taking bathroom breaks standing up in situations where restrooms are unfit or nonexistent.(Photo: GoGirl)

I had to go to the site to learn more as I have never even heard of such a thing but the site says European woemn have been using FUDs for a long time. Is this that big of an issue that women would pay for this? $6.99 for a single Go-Girl

Ok, so what’s a GoGirl?
Simply put, GoGirl is the way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant or non-existent bathrooms. It’s a female urination device (sometimes called a FUD) that allows you to urinate while standing up. It’s neat. It’s discreet. It’s hygienic.GoGirl is easy to use. Just lower your panties, and put GoGirl against your body, forming a seal. Aim and, well, pee. Pretty simple, huh?

Q: Is GoGirl a collection device?
A: No. It's very much like a funnel, with an angle so the urine is directed away from your feet. (We're working on a collection device) Click to get additional detail on this question.

Mr Deity and the Science Advisor

Some of these are better than others, this one is one of their better ones in thier series, enjoy. The guy with the gray hair is GOD, the other guy is PZ Myers who writes the blog : http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Hello “Excuse Me”, Goodbye “God Bless You”

When we cough in the presence of other human beings, we say “Excuse me” because we have fouled their air space with our germs and molecules. When we fart in the presence of others, we also say “Excuse me” because we have fouled their air space with our intestinal gases. When we sneeze, the people whose air space we have fouled with our germs and molecules tell us, “God Bless You” and we say “Thank You”. This does not make any sense.

When we sneeze, we should say, “Excuse me” just as we do if we cough or fart because we have fouled others’ air space. Why doesn’t God bless our farts and coughs or other bodily functions? Next time I am at the urinal and there is a guy next to me; I’ll wait for him to finish and then say to him, “God Bless You.” Maybe that’s not a great idea now that I think more about it.

So I am going to begin to say ‘Excuse me” after I sneeze; you should as well. Let’s start a new trend and take God out of our bodily functions as I am sure he has much better things to take care of.

A Conductor, Really?

He's the rock star of the orchestra. He's the lead singer of the band. He's who all the chicks want seamen from. He's the one waving his arms wildly as if he he was actually making the beautiful sounds we here. He's the conductor. I shouldn't be using 'he' but come to think of it, I can't remember ever seeing a female conductor but I am sure they exist so forgive my ignorant sexism here.

I just can't see how a professional orchestra needs a conductor. Yeah, they sure make it look like the orchestra needs them but I do not buy it. Now I could be totally wrong here as I am not an expert on orchestral maneuvers but in order to change my mind, I'd like some evidence to the contrary; maybe a study or two showing that it makes a difference.

1. These are professional orchestra players who are some of the best of their trade.
2. They are playing pieces of music that they have practiced and played for hours upon hours alone and together.
3. They know when their instrument should come into the song, leave the song, hold the note etc... These are professionals.
4. They are not playing improvised music here, these are known songs.
5. I can't imagine the conductor is actually changing the song ass they play it by extending notes, stopping notes on a whim etc... otherwise it would be a mess.

I mean no disrespect to these conductors but I just see it as pomp and circumstance. What I would love to see is two orchestra's playing one piece of music one with a conductor and one without and then see if 'critics' or 'orchestral experts' can pick out which is which.

Don't Misrepresent Me, Let Me Tarnish My Name Myself

I have never tweeted or even visited the Twitter site, it's just not for me; I don't 'get it'. My life is not interesting enough for people to want to know what I am doing all of the time and in reverse, I don't much care enough about what other people are doing during their day either. It's the same thing with the constant updates on Facebook, I dabbled but it's not really for me.

I do think that Twitter is an interesting cultural and social tool/experiment. One of the interesting aspects to it is that professional athletes appear to really like what it has to offer. You often hear professional athletes and even celebrities saying that 'the media' misrepresents them all of the time. Now with Twitter, they have a way to send 'their' message out to the world without 'the media' whenever and wherever they want.

Now it is hilarious to see these 'poor misrepresented' athletes continue to stick their athletic feet in their mouths. There have been MANY athletes that have sent tweets that they now regret, just google "athletes tweeting mistakes'. The latest is from Larry Johnson the first string running back for the Kansas City Chiefs used the word faggot twice in 24 hours in his tweets and now he has been suspended for one game and most likely will never run for the Chiefs again. The NBA and other professional sports leagues are now going to institute "Twitter Rules" to stop these morons from causing any more harm to themselves and their league.

Sometimes people should re-think that which they wish for or at least think through it more carefully. Maybe these professional athletes do provide a better representation of themselves; as the irresponsible morons that they are.

When Will the Violence End?

Pakistani volunteers rush an injured child to a hospital after an explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009. A car bomb has torn through a market popular with women in northwestern Pakistan, killing 86 people hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the country.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

I am not an expert on the culture, religious strife, economic and social environments in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq but every time I see pictures like this one and headlines of another bomb explosion that kills innocent people of these nations I think to myself, "Why aren't these people doing more to rid themselves of these murderers?"

In Iraq, why are they not ratting these murders out to the US military or doing away with them themselves? Maybe it's the religious Sunni vs Shiite issue in Iraq that precludes the needed cleansing, I don't know. In Afghanistan I realize it's a lot tougher than in Iraq as they really don't have a lot to work with and fight the Taliban. Pakistan is kinds of getting screwed because the US is driving the Taliban and Al Queda out of Afghanistan into Pakistan. Although the Pakistan government is trying to fight them, why aren't the people doing more to stop the innocent killing? The whole 'tribal' issue really complicates things as the fight for power is waged between them and the governments.

Maybe they are doing everything they can and I just don't see it or hear about it in the news. It just seems to me that if the same situation existed in this country (I know this a horrible comparison that is most likely invalid as the amount of resources the American people have is light years different but...), our population would rise up against these murderers and drive them out.

I just can not fathom the random killing of innocent human beings. Would this killing be reduced if we left? I think it might or at least it would then focus all of the attention to each other and they could maybe figure this shit out, let it settle.

Maybe what is needed is a civil war to sort this all out, let the people decide/fight it out. I know a civil war will mean the death of thousands of people but in the end civil wars usually sort themselves out once people get to their breaking points and want it to end. The current strategy if you can call it that will just go on and on as the fight for power continues. Is a long drawn out string of death better than a quick large death toll?

Who knows but I do know that the problems I have in my life are trivial.