Tudor Bosman

(she's 18 months old) - Tudor Bosman

"When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant's competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts. Additionally, a psychologist or psychiatrist shall be required to don a white beard that is not less than 18 inches in length, and shall punctuate crucial elements of his testimony by stabbing the air with a wand. Whenever a psychologist or psychiatrist provides expert testimony regarding a defendant's competency, the bailiff shall contemporaneously dim the courtroom lights and administer two strikes to a Chinese gong" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Seems legit. - Stephen Mack

"Meet John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming's Facebook status was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls. Below is an update Fleming posted (from Friday, according to the blogger) for his followers to read about Planned Parenthood's "wholesale" approach to providing abortions:" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"Your will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

My favourite sheeple joke remains Nedroid's, though it wasn't actually in one of his webcomics, I don't think. Two-parter: https://twitter.com/#!... and https://twitter.com/#!... - Andrew C (✓)

"Daniel Radcliffe has announced that he is no longer a supporter of the Liberal Democrats after emerging as one of the party's most high-profile celebrity backers ahead of the last British general election, and will probably vote instead for Labour under its "genuinely leftwing" leader, Ed Miliband." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"Radcliffe said that he wished more educational establishments, especially in the US, were not in thrall to religion, stating: "I'm not religious, I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation. We need sex education in schools." - Tudor Bosman

Good lord. - Spidra Webster

Jeanette: do you want one of these? http://www.glamguns.com/hk47... - Tudor Bosman

"In addition to stopping funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business, Komen for the Cure has also quietly stopped funding embryonic stem cell research centers, another concern for pro-life advocates." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has entered the controversy over America's largest breast cancer advocacy group's cut in funding to Planned Parenthood by vowing to make up $250,000 of the missing funds out of his own pocket." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"Bloomberg supports abortion rights, stating: "Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right and we can never take it for granted. On this issue, you're either with us or against us." He has criticized pro-choice politicians who support pro-life candidates. Bloomberg supports governmental funding for embryonic stem cell research, calling the Republican position on the issue... more... - Tudor Bosman

Re: http://www.theatlantic.com/health... -- "Sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood." - Tudor Bosman

Okay. - Bird-botts

Thank you Jimminy, for that advice. I wish you well in the future. - Cristo

"Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast. The line is about 400 miles long, we can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so we'll be there in 10 days. We call our friends and book dinner for next Sunday night, when we roll in triumphantly at 6pm. They can't wait!" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Andy: me, too. Please don't misunderstand me. But even the things you mentioned correspond to the issues faced when planning a trek or a route march. I think we're working from the same map. - Brent

"The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan in 1973. It was published in the journal Science under the title "On being sane in insane places." The study is considered an important and influential criticism of psychiatric diagnosis. Rosenhan's study was done in two parts. The first part involved the use of healthy associates or "pseudopatients" (three women and five men) who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 different psychiatric hospitals in five different states in various locations in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had not experienced any more hallucinations. Hospital staff failed to detect a single pseudopatient, and instead believed that all of the pseudopatients exhibited symptoms of ongoing mental illness.... more... - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

"Despite constantly and openly taking extensive notes on the behavior of the staff and other patients, none of the pseudopatients were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, although many of the other psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors. ... one nurse labeled the note-taking of one pseudopatient as "writing behavior" and considered it pathological." - Gabe

"It's a boy! And he's five. Beck Laxton, 46, and partner Kieran Cooper, 44, have spent half the decade concealing the gender of their son, Sasha. "I wanted to avoid all that stereotyping," Laxton said. I'm confused.  Is being stereotyped as a boy worse than being stereotyped as a court jester with an extra chromosome?   "Wha--! That is so offensive!"  Agreed.  So why did she do it?" - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

It's not that she didn't want to impose a gender on the child, it's that she hates the gender that he is. If it was a girl it would not have happened. She encouraged him to act feminine. There's no evidence that she encouraged him to partake in any masculine activities. She didn't want to avoid a gender stereotype, she wanted to impose the gender that she wanted him to be. - Glenn Slaven

We are all made of poor grammar. - Kevin Fox

Also, she can repeatedly complete the first level of Angry Birds without any help! - Tudor Bosman

My daughter loves my iPhone. She asks for it: 'Dada phone!' And I hand it to her but then she hands it back: 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' Then I dial up some bits from YouTube. It's all instant, it's all identifiable, it's all intuitive. Thank you, Mr. Jobs. - Akiva

Also, my mother-in-law's cat puked a half-digested mouse on their bed. Just thought you guys should know. - Tudor Bosman

What thoughtful gifts. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

We're supposed to be snowed in, so we're wondering the same thing. - joey

SKYRIM - Mo Kargas

yikes, i'd never read that one. - Joe The Sausage

You remembered: http://friendfeed.com/tudor... - Bruce Lewis

"An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days. Under artificial pressure to become larger, single-celled yeast became multicellular creatures." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Wow. That's like in Evolution. Crazy. - Anika

"Believe it or not, to legally watch that famous Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" speech -- arguably one of the most hallowed moments in American history -- costs $10 thanks to the twisted state of United States copyright law. In related news, happy Martin Luther King Day! The news of how MLK's most famous moment costs money to watch is not a new one. But given the dramatic rise of the issue of digital rights, thanks largely in part to the dramatic controversy surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the story seems unusually prescient this year." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

The second was "bye kitty" when we left the room with the cat. - Tudor Bosman

I'm glad "nom kitty" was not uttered. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

$14 for Two Justin Bieber Singing Toothbrushes ($29.90 Value) - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

END TIMES UPON US - Stephen Mack from iPhone

"The F-35C, also known as the carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (CV JSF), is one of several fifth-generation fighters developed under the JSF program. New documents reveal that the aircraft has a crucial flaw, which could prevent it from ever being able to land on a vessel." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

FWIW, i wasn't able to make out the markings. strictly size/silhouette after take-off. :P - Joe The Sausage

"We typically think of terrorism as a political act. But sometimes it’s very personal. It wasn’t a government or a guerrilla insurgency that threw acid on this woman’s face in Pakistan. It was a young man whom she had rejected for marriage. As the United States ponders what to do in Afghanistan — and for that matter, in Pakistan — it is wise to understand both the political and the personal, that the very ignorance and illiteracy and misogyny that create the climate for these acid attacks can and does bleed over into the political realm. Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times op-ed columnist who traveled to Pakistan last year to write about acid attacks, put it this way in an essay at the time: “I’ve been investigating such acid attacks, which are commonly used to terrorize and subjugate women and girls in a swath of Asia from Afghanistan through Cambodia (men are almost never attacked with acid). Because women usually don’t matter in this part of the world, their attackers are rarely... more... - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Terrible, but it's something that needs to be seen. - Mark H