Yeah, I pretty much took off the weekend, except to talk about food. But I wasn’t going to leave you without your weirdness. 100% apolitical this weekend. Consider, for example, the transvestite (female dressing as male) jazz musician who over… Continue Reading
Tip #1: If you’re just having a few people for your Thanksgiving, you only need a turkey breast or a small ham. I used a 7-pound turkey breast and when I got it home, it was frozen solid and in… Continue Reading
I can feel confident that everyone reading this has one thing in common: internet access. That means that everyone reading this also has at least access to a computer. This means that everyone reading this possesses at least sufficient affluence… Continue Reading
Sometimes it’s hard to tell parody from what it’s parodying. Take this for instance: Now, I found this on comedy site failblog.org. That’s a good place to go to see things like people not setting their parking brakes, teenagers… Continue Reading
It seems hard to believe that there hasn’t been an official state dinner at the White House yet during the Obama Administration. I thought those were fairly regular sorts of occurrences for visiting ambassadors and heads of state of other… Continue Reading
Is that a meep I hear, young man? Better not be! Can your cat do this? Mine would like to but we don’t get house guests like this very often. Well, at least they’re not this lazy. These aren’t cake… Continue Reading
A National Guard unit from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin deployed to Iraq has encountered an unusual problem — the Iraqi detainees under its custody have made known their affection for Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre. If the fact that Iraqi terrorist… Continue Reading
So it appears that Rudy! Giuliani will run for Senate in 2010 and not Governor of New York. This, I think, is not a good use of his skill set. Rudy! is an executive; he has no experience in a… Continue Reading
This is one of the more conservative corners of California that I live in. A Democrat hasn’t been elected to represent this area in generations. The central industry here is building aircraft for the Air Force and the nation’s premier… Continue Reading
I’m as committed as ever to the idea of due process. I have plenty of intellectual companionship in saying that a trial is the right thing to do because indefinite detention is not a good option, and that we should… Continue Reading