Slim Pickens during the filming of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick) (via)
First Aid Kit
“Emmylou”
The Lion’s Roar (2012)
(via twenty-nine-years)
Transcript of tonight's Republican debate.
| MODERATOR: | Hi. Here we are again. Let's get right to it and start with Speaker Gingrich. Sir, please don't get mad tonight. |
| GINGRICH: | No. |
| ROMNEY: | Freddie Mac! Resigned in disgrace! I'll release my 2012 taxes after I'm President! (Smarmy laugh.) |
| PAUL: | Why am I here? |
| SANTORUM: | I still hate gay people. And I'm still a huge dick. Look at my sweater vest! Obama's a Muslim! |
| MODERATOR: | Does anyone here have anything of substance to offer? |
| GINGRICH: | I hear Santorum is some sort of substance. |
| (All laugh. Except Santorum, whose wife runs onto the stage.) | |
| MRS. SANTORUM: | Don't pick on my husband! He just hates gay people! |
| MODERATOR: | Security, please escort Mrs. Santorum off the stage. |
| ROMNEY: | I pay Cayman Islands offshore taxes investments Bain Capital, uh, universal healthcare reform no, Obama must go! |
| PAUL: | Why am I here? |
| SANTORUM: | Still with the hating of the gay people. Sweater vests! (Takes off shirt.) |
| MODERATOR: | Thanks all. We're going to commercial and when we come back, I'm going to ask the candidates, "Why even bother?" Stay tuned. |
Sky burial, or ritual dissection, is a funerary practice in Tibet, wherein a human corpse was incised in certain locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements and animals. The locations of preparation and sky burial are understood in the Vajrayana traditions as charnel grounds.
The majority of Tibetans adhere to Buddhism, which teaches rebirth. There is no need to preserve the body, as it is now an empty vessel. Birds may eat it, or nature may let it decompose. So the function of the sky burial is simply to dispose the remains. In much of Tibet, the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and, due to the scarcity of fuel and timber, sky burials are often more practical than cremation.
(Source: Wikipedia)
