The Dish

They’ve gotten more visually sophisticated – flash animation shorts on the web, I mean. But their essential quality – what were the smoking when they came up with that? – endures. Hence an old favorite: Lobster Magnet. Feel free to send me your flash classic faves. There are people out there desperately looking for ways to put off doing some work. And it’s your responsibility to help them out.

What a strange pairing.

A reader writes:

Andrew, you wrote:

But the human mind, because it is human, resists that as the final answer to the question of our destiny. We find it very hard to think of ourselves as not being. That resistance is always there.

Curious isn’t it that we all feel what you called "resistance to our own extinction"? It arises during any sustained period of self-reflection. Yet we do not feel the same resistance when contemplating the time before our birth. I’d hazard to say you feel none of that "final answer" resistance when considering what you were doing, say, a year before you were born.

Why fear what comes after death when we have no corresponding dread about what came before birth? I certainly do not have the answer but I find the question itself has a certain calmness about it.

The right’s pathologies do not seem to be abating. Here’s an another attempt at humor, from Townhall.com, a column titled, "How To Bomb A Gay Bathhouse":

Here’s what [Coulter] should do immediately:

1. Start a website called ‘Global War on Fags’ today.

2. Begin writing essays calling for the cleansing and purification of society via the mass murder of homosexuals.

3. Distribute videos on the website showing the actual murders of homosexuals.

4. Circulate instructions on how to bomb gay bath houses in San Francisco.

5. Circulate a ‘battle dispatch’ to give people specific information on America’s most notorious bath houses.

The punch-line follows. I’m not making this up. The column is the "second hottest" on the site. The guy is a professor at UNC-Wilmington. (Hat tip: Petrelis.)

Right-click by right-click by right-click. You can even turn him into poetry!

Gary Rosen helpfully pores over the arguments.

Whay aren’t humans still furry? One award-winning theory: stone-age moms were brutal.

Is Google helping?

More shellacking from the embarrassed right.

"My question is, if [Gonzales] fired the guy who fired us, why is he standing by the dismissals?" – John McKay, former U.S. attorney for Washington. (Hat tip: Josh.)