Midday open thread

post from Daily Kos on 14 August 2012 03:00:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Today's comic is National sandwich month by Matt Bors:
"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere":
Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of ?Sex and the Single Girl? shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it ? and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more ? died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger. [...]
As Cosmopolitan?s editor from 1965 until 1997, Ms. Brown was widely credited with being the first to introduce frank discussions of sex into magazines for women. The look of women?s magazines today ? a sea of voluptuous models and titillating cover lines ? is due in no small part to her influence.
Rest in peace, Ms. Brown. Wherever you are.
Security theater:
A man whose jet ski failed him in New York's Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system.
Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport grounds on Friday night, past an intricate system of motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras designed to to safeguard against terrorists, authorities said.
Wonkette has this handy guide to things the Romney/Ryan team says we can't talk about:
Tax returns.
Business experience.
Medicare.
Granny-starving.
Dads, being or having.
The four-year span when they murdered those Seattle hookers just to watch them die.
These people really are nuts:
PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) is a fringe group that claims to advocate for the rights of avowed ex-gays, asserting that those who have repressed their sexual orientation are victimized by LGBT activists ? they are victims, but for a very different reason. The group wrote to Sen. Ted Lieu (D) last week, attacking him for sponsoring a bill that ?smacks of fascism and ex-gay bashing? and harms children[.]
Just ... wow:
It turns out that the fighting on D-Day was so fierce that as much as 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is magnetic shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks.
One seriously big-ass snake.
Don't you just hate when this happens?
A member of the Thai parliament is accused of accidentally killing his personal secretary with a submachine gun while the two waited for their food to arrive inside a local restaurant.
Seamus the Dog is now a game:
Your Mission: Survive Until The Car Reaches Canada.
Catch As Many Bones and Anything Else Mitt Throws Along the Way.
Get Points For Pooping On The Car. Bonus Points For Hitting Mitt!
Best story about rogue kangaroos who break out of the zoo with the help of their fellow animal buddies ... EVER!
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