i hate this

big hate: There are more tigers in captivity in AMERICA than wild tigers in the entire world.

The exact number of captive tigers in this country isn’t known, because many of them live in people’s backyards or unaccredited zoos, and the legality of their ownership varies widely by state and even by circumstance. We travelled to Louisiana to see a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal tiger who lives at a truck stop, and the man who’s fought very hard to persuade Louisiana lawmakers he’s not a criminal.

All photos from Michael Sandlin’s website

See more photos, and learn more about Michael Sandlin’s effort to keep Tony at the Tiger Truck Stop here. Learn more about the Animal Legal Defense Fund‘s campaign to rehome Tony here.

Josh Halverson: Take Me To Forever

Josh Halverson (Mdewakantonwan Sioux) who won the Songwriter of the Year Award at the Native American Music Awards in 2013 for his Cd, One Shot, earned a last minute three-chair turn during The Voice Blind Auditions as his wife and young son, Thunderbird, watched backstage. Josh, who is a cattle rancher from Texas performed a haunting version of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young". Once Miley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, and Blake Sheldon hit their buttons, they all turned around to fight for Halverson. Although Blake brought out his best cattle talk, Halverson chose to join Team Alicia.

2016-09-26 OVFGO night time-lapse video of Fuego volcano, Guatemala

freak show

I feel like a BOOM went off in my head looking at this photo!

Ringling Bros. “Congress of Freaks” circa 1924. Wikimedia Commons

On May 19, 1884, the Ringling Bros.’ Circus officially opened for business, capitalizing on the extreme and bizarre to earn profit. It worked: For many years, the most popular component of the circus was the “Freak Show.”

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One of the best episodes of @CriminalShow ever - totally spellbinding. https://t.co/N6sLw4WjPI

— Andrew Linderman (@lindermania) September 24, 2016

Have you started listening to podcasts? I do now - BRAIN GOOD BOOMS

"chaos syndrome"

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You gotta think there are big thinkers who are shaking their heads - BOOM!

hindsight?

Hindsight is…well, you know. → The Good Old Days? 12 Crazy Vintage Ads That Prove We’ve Come A Long Way

Steven Spielberg sits inside the mechanical shark on the set of Jaws

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What hallucination reveals about our minds | Oliver Sacks

Devenir chêvre

‘Devenir chêvre’, or ‘to become a goat’, means to get angry. This is interesting when contrasted with the English idiom ‘to get your goat’.


The origins of this phrase are founded in the fact that goats used to be housed with cattle, as it was believed they had a calming effect. Consequently, if you ‘got someone’s goat’ it would result in agitated cattle.
The French obviously had other ideas about the temperament of goats. According to Expressio, goats were brusque and aggressive, hence the use of ‘devenir chêvre’ to denote someone getting angry.

Appreciation Friday: Nick Cave

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Nick Cave's first Soundsuit above  | HIS WEBSITE

SCARY!

A vintage ventriloquist and his dummy

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bless that dave letterman

CRIMINAL

(click) Podcast Episode 45: Just Mercy (6.17.2016)

As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. The man told Stevenson he’d never met an African-American lawyer, and the two of them talked for hours. It was a day that changed Stevenson’s life. He’s spent the last 30 years working to get people off of death row, but has also spent the final hours with men he could not save from execution. He argues that each of us is deserving of mercy.

Learn more about Bryan Stevenson in his book, Just Mercy.

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