El camino del Rey is a death-defying video that’s a lot easier to watch than it is to explain, and it isn’t very easy to watch. Exciting, but not easy.

By the time Daisy woke me at 7:30 AM yesterday, 90 minutes before my alarm was scheduled to peal, I’d averaged about 4.5 hours of sleep a night for the previous three nights. “The hell do YOU want?” I asked her, and then the doorbell rang. “That was the doorbell,” some part of me tried to tell the part of me that was still asleep, but we weren’t listening. A couple very disorienting minutes later, a bouncy, energetic plumber was emptying the coat closet. The coat closet has a lot of stuff. “I have to get …

A Federal appeals court has ruled that paper money discriminates against blind people, and that our currency must be redesigned so that the blind can distinguish its different values.

From Apple Insider: HBO shows arrive on iTunes starting at $1.99 an episode. The Wire, Deadwood, Rome, Flight of the Conchords, wheee….! COINCIDENTALLY timed with the exact moment I ran out of Venture Bros. episodes to download. ITMS <3 me.

“Fighting for peace is like raping for virginity.” — Jeremiah Wright (thank you, Laura!)

What if you grew up in Iowa, became a biochemist, worked for six months on a space station, returned to Earth in “ballistics mode” which subjected your body to 8 G’s, and no one was there to meet you when you crash landed in a field in rural Kazakhstan…except a few locals who only answered, “Yeah, right,” whenever you tried to explain that you’d just come from orbit? You might give an interview like the one Peggy Whitson gave the Discovery Channel a few days ago.

It wasn’t until I got to the Davis Square T-stop that I realized that not only had I forgotten my wallet and my keys, but I’d also brought along the wrong T pass (I still refuse to call them Charlie Cards, thank you very much). I couldn’t get a subway ticket because I didn’t have my cash because I didn’t have my wallet. I couldn’t go back home and crawl under the covers because I didn’t have my keys, and the upstairs neighbors (who might’ve let me in) were already gone for the work day.

So, hurray, …