YAS ELLEN

Ellen DeGeneres Can’t Hold Back the Tears as Obama Honors Her with Presidential Medal of Freedom: WATCH https://t.co/lqTg3F460Q pic.twitter.com/2zTaUJP8cc

— Towleroad (@tlrd) November 22, 2016

always trust a capybara

The two that escaped a Toronto zoo on their very first day there were only six month old, so they had not yet reach such gargantuan size. They were both about 30 pounds—the average weight of a human two-year-old. For the past two and a half weeks, they have been hanging out in a park, where, the Guardian says, they have been “celebrated as folk heroes.”

But over the weekend, one of the two capybaras wandered into one of the zookeepers’ traps, which were baited with capybara-friendly food. The other is still lost in the woods, plotting its next move. The zoo asks that anyone who sees the remaining capybara not appraoch it, because the zoo is working hard on "gaining their trust with feeding." (via)

#CapybaraWatch

marlo thomas is on fire!

here she is with hillary clinton in memphis at the dedication of st. jude's new marlo thomas building. watch the video, she is killing it!

and here she is with barack obama at the white house getting a fancy new necklace, aka the presidential medal of freedom, and paling around with meryl streep.

ITS FRIDAY

WE HAVE A HALF DAY I HAVE NEXT WEEK OFF AND ILL BE IN BROOKLYN TONIGHT!!11!

the weather report

Lightning strikes One World Trade Center as the sun sets http://t.co/D1I7krAaNj via @Lucas_Jackson_/@reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/RULzeiQ08d

— NBC News Pictures (@NBCNewsPictures) July 3, 2014

go get the biggest DC you can find today...

...because the new york city soda ban starts tomorrow.

here's a handy guide to the new rulez.

gulp

15,000 crocodiles escaped from a farm in south africa. now they are running wild! what is it with animals today? am i right?

these dummies got themselves captured. more than likely by a man like this:

the view from a robot penis

(via)

spotifree tuesday!

Max:  dave
me:  max

 Max:  spotify just made their app and service free

 me:  whaaaaaaat

 Max:  i just downloaded the app and its unreal

yep

 me:  premium?

 Max:  it linked all my playlists and everything

premium

IT'S TRUE! 

UPDATE

i still can't use it, because i have a stupid b-berry.

christmas freedom

c2e.

i know i hyperbolize a lot here...

...but i want you to think long and hard before watching this without 4-5 tissues in your hand.

Forty male beagles raised inside a lab in Spain arrived in Los Angeles last week where they will be put up for adoption after being freed from captivity by the Beagle Freedom Project.

The rescue mission is the largest yet for the group Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME). A total of 72 dogs were rescued in the effort, 32 of them having already been adopted in Europe, according to NBC Los Angeles. (via)

thx leigh anne!

Yvonne : FREEDOM FIGHTER

Yvonne is a dairy cow who executed a stunning escape from her electrified pen in Germany just days before she was to be turned into hamburger.

She has been on the lamb living secretly in the woods near her town eating grass and evading capture at every turn. Helicopters, infrared cameras, and a sexy bull named Ernst have all been employed to bring Yvonne back into custody, but now that she has tasted freedom, she will never go back to the farm.

full disclosure: this picture is actually of Yvonne's sister Waltraut, who has also been used at bait. yvonne hasn't been seen in DAYS

via

freedom fridayz

it's july 4th weekend. michele bachmann is making a strong showing in the polls. hugo chavez has cancer. glenn beck has his own tv network? (wtf) it's high time we get a freedom tower update!

Look who's the tallest building downtown now! Who's on top, and who's on bottom now?

statue of liberty!

party time!

i've only felt compelled to run to a central celebratory spot for one reason, and that's an important tennessee football victory. and had i been awake for the announcement of bin laden's death, i wouldn't've left my house. but these people did!

here's one featuring the new freedom tower, which grows taller and taller every day. just like our freedom!

freedom fridayz

because monday is just as good.

here's a current skyline pic. with arrows for guidance.

red - frank o. gehry's beekman tower - get your curvy rental now!

blue - cranes of the rising wtc tower 4

orange - freedom tower aka 1 wtc - gettin real close to the top of the skyline and only half the floors are done

freedom fridayz

sorry it's been a month since this post, but i didn't feel like one floor a week would make for a stunning progress report. however, i think you'll see a difference now. I also include a pic from 3 weeks ago because the sky was pretty.

nov 12
dec 3

murfreesboro mosque will be built.

A judge refused Wednesday to stop construction of a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro that was opposed by some local residents who tried to argue that there was a conspiracy by Muslims to impose extremist law on the United States. Rutherford County Chancellor Robert Corlew ruled that he could not find that the “county acted illegally, arbitrarily or capriciously” in approving the plan. (via)

there's still some sense left in that sleepy ol' town.

freedom fridayz

i've been watching the freedom tower (aka 1 wtc) rise higher into the skyline for a couple months now. my coworker and i decided to document its progress every week or two, and i'm going to share that documentation with you. the freedom tower is under the red arrow. the blue arrow is pointing out the beekman tower that frank gehry threw up, which is also a newby to the downtown skyline. it has reached its peak, so you can use it as a reference for future pics.

FREE LINDSAY!

you look great, girl. you'll be out in no time.

classic.