frozen coagulated culture

Now, more than six years later, it may be time to ask, “Is we improved?”

For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.
--G.W. Bush, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; May 14, 2001

There’s a site out there that is supposed to answer the question “what’s your blog’s reading level?” When you download the resulting badge (right) it attempts to put a spammy link on your page. Because of this I’ve removed all links to the site, but you can find it by searching.

For what it’s worth (nothing), my other blogs, right reading, frisco vista, and buried mirror score “high school,” while seven junipers has graduated to “college (undergrad).”

I see a lot of sites boasting of scoring “genius,” but to get that score you would have to be doing something very wrong.

You can construct your flag from parts of existing flags at We Are Multicolored. But wouldn’t it be easier to do it from scratch? Anyway, here’s mine. The blue, from Cape Verde, represents the sea and sky. The white band, also from CV, represents peace. The Quetzal, from Guatemala, represents liberty.

via exploding aardvark

via Laughing Squid

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Good likeness?

Simpsons avatars.