It's an Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar and apparently regularly make the "what is it" rounds on the interweb. From the UK with a video of it eating:

http://bit.ly/2mJbITU

Wipe Out: I too once thought there was no debate 'over' the proper way to 'load' a roll of toilet paper. Over the years I've come to realize that depending upon one's circumstances, there are acceptable exceptions to this rule. . .

"Not that sphincter muscle" you say? Have you not heard of an Optirectomy? It's a medical procedure that severs the nerve running from the optic nerve to the rectum. The intent is to eliminate one's $hitty outlook on life. . .

It's a frickin hilarious cartoon. Engage!

Speaking of states, here's and oldie from Business Insider:

A Poll Asked America Which States Were The Drunkest, The Hottest And Which Had The Silliest Accents:

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-how-americans-feel-about-the-states-2013-8

Up in Maine we have a 1963 B-52 crash site on Elephant Mountain that's been memorialized. It's maintained by a local snowmobile club and is easily accessible. Very sobering to walk around the site.

http://bit.ly/1Qi5a0H

An Affair to Remember - love it, which shows what I sentimentalist I can be.

Fascinating. If you want to read more, head over to geology.com where there are pictures and some BBC Nature clips that feature the survivors and reconstruct the event.

http://geology.com/records/biggest-tsunami.shtml

That's good but the mysterious load of "S"less red skittles that were headed to farm as cattle feed but were found dumped on a road in Wisconsin is better!

Thousands of Skittles end up on an icy road.

Hmm. . . Inaccessible to the public you say. You really think that's it? Only The Book of Secrets can confirm or deny this story. The truth is out there.

First time I voted just show me the results. I’m having a hard time maintaining interest, especially after last week’s hour and half snoozer. I’m familiar with the comic and I get it, but I’m more interested in a group of humans banded together to fight zombies in a dystopian future than groups of humans banded together to fight other increasingly evil and malignant humans in a dystopian future. We pretty much have that now. The escapism piece of the entertainment is gone.

Squab. What's not to like?

Grew up with it. Loved it. Watched it for years with my kids. The loved it. Finally one year I pointed out how screwed up it is. Now they won't watch it anymore.

That would be his real name. Excerpts from a follow-on article in the Portland Press Herald:

He didn’t intend to create a spectacle or get arrested, but was “interested in asking, ‘Why can’t you walk slowly in front of a car?’ ”

In 2009 he was drawn to the bulbous, red-and-green pepper logo that topped a Chili’s restaurant. One night, after borrowing more than 450 feet of extension cords from the Bennington College [Vermont] sculpture department, he and three friends stretched the extension cords from the nearby Home Depot, across four lanes of traffic and onto the roof of the restaurant, where they used power tools to remove the $8,000 chili pepper.

They got caught. (Imagine that)

Felony grand larceny charges were reduced to petty theft if they stayed out of trouble for two years. They also were ordered to write an essay about the waste of taxpayer resources, and to hold a car wash in the Chili’s parking lot.

The sentencing judge also gave Woodworth and his friends some advice. “Try not to do stupid things in the future of this magnitude. Smaller stupid things are better.”

Maine. The way life should be!