From the Chicago Tribune published on 10/10/05 (hat tip: AmericaBlog): Theodore Roosevelt Heller, 88, loving father of Charles (Joann) Heller; dear brother of the late Sonya (the late Jack) Steinberg. Ted was discharged from the U.S. Army during WWII due to service related injuries, and then forced his way back into the Illinois National Guard insisting no one tells him … Read More
Question Of The Day
Shakespeare’s Sister is shooting off this blog question: What movie scenes always make you cry? There are a couple, but the only one that comes to mind is a bit of an embarassment: The hospital scene at the end of She’s Having A Baby where Kevin Bacon is waiting for his wife Elizabeth McGovern to, you know, have a baby, … Read More
We Think This Is A Good Name For A Blog
"P.S. No more public scatology" — actual handwriting of Bush in note to Harriet Miers. Wonkette speculates about its meaning.
Rapture Checklist
Tsunami? Check. Hurricane? Check. Flood? Check. Global Warming? Check. Earthquake? Check. Landslide? Check. Plague? Check. Volcano? Volcano? Volcano? Ah, there you are.
Just Wondering…
Why is it that whenever I see a picture of Bill Gates speaking at some press conference or symposium, he always looks like he’s singing a ballad in a Broadway musical? "Rivers belong where they can ramble…." Bill Gates wonders if he will ever find his "Corner Of The Sky"
Stories We Stopped Reading After The First Paragraph
Cambodian Couple Suck Daughter’s Blood: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Black magic may have driven a Cambodian couple to bite off their daughter’s thumb nails and suck her blood, officials said Sunday….
Stuff I Want
An aquarium sink: A weird bookshelf/chair/stool set: A solar backpack: A "Titanic lamp":
It’s Over
Let’s put a happy face on this. From the Red Sox Blog: Last year does make this year a bit more bearable. It’s not because we’re all still riding the high of a World Series victory though. Take a good listen. You hear that? That’s the sound of no one bringing up some asinine curse. It’s the sound of no … Read More
The Boys Next Door
Since I’ve broken precedent by plugging other local theatrical events, I really ought to plug my own. Tonight is the opening night of "The Boys Next Door", a comedy by Tom Griffin. "The Boys Next Door" is a play about four mentally handicapped men who live in a home together, and their social worker, Jackie, who is becoming burned out … Read More
Pajamas Media
Several heavyweight conservative bloggers are combining forces for a new, probably influential, group effort, called (for the time being) "Pajamas Media". Contributors (that I know of) include Little Green Football’s Charles Johnsoon, Roger Simon, and La Shawn Barber. Stay tuned….
Brink Of Elimination
5-4. Ugh. Well, we’ve been here before. I vaguely recall being down three-games-to-nil not too long ago…. But they’re really bummin’ over at the Red Sox Blog.
Short Bites
Jimmy Carter has a son? What Matt says Ever said "There oughta be a law…."? Here’s your chance… Um, why? With this avian flu thing hanging over us, is it really a good idea to intentionally reconstruct a 1918 flu virus that killed 50 million people?
The Dysons
Geeks are very excited about this lecture — now sold out — in which three members of Freeman Dyson’s family (including Freeman himself) are giving a joint lecture. I have a special connection to this event — I dated one of Professor Dyson’s daughters many years ago, and met him briefly a few times. I consider myself a reasonably smarty … Read More
