It all started with a throwaway joke by Joe Scarborough on his punditry show on MSNBC about Jeri Kehn, “Right Said” Fred Thompson’s smokin’ hot wife. Suddenly, it seems the whole blogosphere is aware of the fact that not only… Continue Reading
A lesbian woman confronted Mitt Romney on his disapproval of same-sex marriage. In response, Romney congratulated the woman on having created a family of her own, and said that the prospect of gay couples raising children together was “fine.” This… Continue Reading
I have a confession to make: I’m doing an unbelievably dorky thing and saving state quarters. There’s no reason for it or expectation of value, it’s just something I’m doing for my own amusement. The Wife humors me and lets… Continue Reading
A surprisingly poignant article about Bob Barker retiring from The Price is Right. A taste: Like most good teachers, he made the lesson as painless as possible. Here was this exceptionally bright man, who knew exactly how silly the games… Continue Reading
Peggy Noonan, who learned a thing or two about modern, Reagan-style conservatives back when conservatives did govern the country, expresses her disgust with the White House‘s betrayal of conservative principles in today’s Wall Street Journal. The critical indictment: …the great… Continue Reading
Ducks win! Ducks win! A 6-2 game, one in which Ottawa was playing catch-up the whole time, just wore the Senators out. Anaheim’s depth was simply too much for them. The Ducks could have Selanne, Neidermayer, McDonald, or Pronger, or… Continue Reading
It still astonishes me to think that international trade faces a live and real threat from pirates. For instance, pirates operating off the coast of Somalia seized a Danish ship today, possibly killing one or more of the sailors on… Continue Reading
I took the dogs to a self-service pet cleaning business today while The Wife was meeting for some Toastmasters meeting. The last time the dogs had been bathed, they lived in Knoxville. For these two big wimpburgers, being wet is… Continue Reading
The headline to this article is annoyingly deceptive. The actual find in a study of middle-sized homes in the ruins of Pompeii was of “an abundance of small grilling vessels (like barbecues) found in the residences studied, indicating that people… Continue Reading
Sometimes you read things that are so stupefyingly weird that they just leave you agog, as in: “It was literally stuffed animals being manipulated by the boys, walking around going ‘yeoowww’ and talking in funny voices”. Depressingly, I’ll probably have… Continue Reading