Garrison on Salon.com: “Twenty-four people packed into the dining room for my 64th birthday dinner and made a steady dull roar from the salad course right on through the cake and coffee, and I hardly got a word in edgewise. People kept inquiring if I was having fun, which is irritating. The answer is no. [...]
Disambiguate. Got to be kidding. First person on my team to use this word gets 10 pushups.
I don’t expect that there will be time for it, but if I can I’m going to try to participate in this little experiment. You try too. Let’s see what happens.
I noticed this just in time for that early X-mas shopping trip we’ve been planning. Get one for each of the crusty, embittered atheists in your life.
Today Laura and Lillian each got a birthday present of their own domain name. The names are pointed to this site for the time being. It won’t work right away, but in the next couple of days if you type in www.laurajue.net or www.lillianjue.net you will come right here to this very page. How neat [...]
So I took the Geek test, and found, to my horror, that I am only 37% geek. Something I need to work on, for sure.The output:”I probably work in computers, or a history department at a college. I never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But I have friends, and this is a good [...]
Here’s more evidence that Librarians Are Corrupting Kids. Watch out, Daniel Pinkwater. Cardinal Ashcroft will be after you soon. (Pointed out by the very observant and connected Craig Jensen.)
A very, very long list of lists.
Where has Charles Nevin been all these years while I’ve been reading Dave Barry? Apparently he also goes by Captain Moonlight. I guess it’s a British comedy thing. (Also check the Robert Fisk link at the bottom. Not much that’s new, if you’ve been following Fisk, but still good stiff stuff.)
OK, this is some deeply funny and angry material. Warning: strong language. If you don’t care to have your eyebrows singed, don’t click here.
“I have no earthly idea what you are talking about, George,” he said finally. Funny stuff.
Next item on the war agenda.
A spam that has been making the rounds (thanks, Rachel): Many of you have heard Dr. Laura, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and others speak of the “Homosexual Agenda,” but no one has ever seen a copy of it. A friend of mine recently obtained a copy directly from the Head Homosexual. At long last we [...]
Paul at his sharpest: “What Betsy Ross once pieced together is bright but facile, and served the barber pole best.” Ouch.
My big sister says this in response to this:”Speaking of propaganda, have you heard that the Age of Irony has come to an end? Here is a link about saying what you mean. What do you think about that?Love, Jo =:-)”
An alert from my friend Peter in Brooklyn. I naively thought this would be cleared up by now (Peter wrote about it last Thursday) but the strip is still not back in the paper. Apparently the cartoonist is being penalized for drawing attention to U.S. government complicity in promoting terrorism. Of course, if one comic [...]
Comic relief from my sister Nic:
To introduce a little refinement into your Friday, try a little Art History.
What happened? If I’d known what this kid knew in 9th grade, would school have been less painful?
Hear, hear! “I do not find anywhere in the Bible where it states that PK’s are to be perfect and without sin and yet many people take such a position about children of preachers.” An impassioned defense of the only oppressed minority I can claim membership in, unless you count Norwegian-Americans.