Alright, let's all just relax a little bit and forget about the sick perverts for a few seconds.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a coupla drinks next to these amazing pools? 

Last night I had a dream that I was being attacked by a rabbit with cat claws.

My only defense was a hard, blue, wooden stick.  It was like one of those baseball bats you get at Dodger Stadium on bat night. Do they still give those away to the thugs in the stands? 

The shiny, blue stick I had was about 6 feet long.

Every time I hit the rabbit in the head with the stick, the rabbit, standing on its hind legs, just got pissed and quickly took a few steps closer to me.

Every time the rabbit moved closer to me, I'd back up and whack it in the head again. 

Luckily, I woke up because this could have gone on forever.

Here's why I had the dream:  Rabbits are eating my ground cover on the slope in my back yard.  That pisses me off.

Since I haven't been able to hit any rabbits with my scope-equipped-pellet gun, I'm going to trap the rabbits and release them.

And I'm going to release them near where the food chain takes a step up which is where the coyotes run.

One in an occasional series:  Pandering. This time to the animal lovers.

You'll have to try pretty hard to find a tattoo artist like this guy. 

And if you want to experience his magic, you'll have to head to Wisconsin.

Nice.  Well centered.  Hideous jeans.

Sweet.  Jumbo-jet-fried-shrimp-birds with dorsal fins are beautiful.

Custom.  Either a band from OC or a character from a 1979 novel.

Inspiring.  That'll look good on the beach.

Quotes from Synyster Ink:

"My thoughts come from my brain. NOT YOURS! Artistic lisense"

"I don't want to use a stencil cos my design r one of a kind!"

"Even if u think it IS bad! you dont even no my tru potential. U PROBLY CANT EVEN DRAW!"

Facebook page?  You bet!

Let's all take a little break and relax. 

We can get back to the soccer player murder arrest, homeless murders special circumstances filings and shipwreck in a moment.

Slow motion videographer Chris Bryan catches some huge waves and crazy surfers off Teahupoʻo, Tahiti in August.

It was such a crazy day that the French Navy threatened to arrest anybody who went into the water.

Like you, I want a clean planet full of butterflies, flowers, trees, animals, clean water and no idiots.  I also want retain the ability to waste water, gas and electricity that I pay for as well as buy oil based paint and drive a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine.

And I want to know the facts about global warming.

The other day my 14 year old son told me his science teacher has been showing the class the movie "An Inconvenient Truth."

Inconveniently, I began a discussion with my son about skepticism. 

We talked about how it is important to know the bias of the person attempting to sway you toward his or her way of thinking.  And it's important to be skeptical of anything you hear from a politician or corporation.

Not knowing his teacher well, I'm not sure if he's just trying to channel Al Gore or if he's planning to follow up and teach the students that they should confirm the movie's claims themselves.  

With the probability looming that my son was just going to get Gore's take on things, we looked up some facts from the "other side."

Before doing so --and I suggest this balanced approach to all parents if you want to avoid producing left or right leaning whacko kids who don't know how to think for themselves-- I explained that the other side is going to make claims that should be vetted as well.

I also told him to always follow the money: see who's paying to have something said or studied or polled.

The global warming skeptics website we went to was the Science and Public Policy Institute's website. 

I explained to my son that this group is probably funded by companies that would benefit from a population that does not believe in global warming. In my quick check, it looks like SPPI is a project of the Frontiers of Freedom which appears to have benefited from some funding by EXXON.

So we have the perfect battle for a freshman science class.  Al Gore on one side and EXXON on the other side. 

Now I just need to make sure my son takes both sides of the issue back to his science class.

You can read SPPI's report here.

Meet Vermin Supreme.  I'd vote for him.

A professor friend of mine from Cal State Fullerton sent me a little information on meat glue this afternoon.

Being a big fan of meat, I was surprised I had missed the story, though it's been around a while.

Transglutaminase, or TG, or meat glue, is a powdered enzyme made from beef and pork blood plasma.  It's mixed with meat scraps then rolled in waxed paper or Saran Wrap to allow the enzyme to react with the meat so the scraps stick together during six hours of magic in the refrigerator. Once the curing time is finished, the now solid piece of meat is sliced, the paper removed and it's time to cook.

TG is a naturally occurring enzyme in plants, animals, and bacteria.

The U.S. FDA deems it GRAS (generally recognized as safe).

Take 5 minutes to decide whether you should be eating it or not.