It is always sad to see a wise blogger with incredible writing skills hang it up. Publius, we hardly knew ye.
How Many 5 Year-Olds Could You Take On At Once?
As discussed here…. How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once? The specifics: You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects. You are not allowed to touch a wall. When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is … Read More
Information I Have Absolutely No Use For
Why rats can’t vomit For those too lazy to click the link, it has something to do with a weak esophageal muscle (among other reasons). Still, not a bad name for a blog, eh?
Oh, And While We’re On The Subject
Me, being of sound mind and body pretty much (as well as can be expected, I mean — I’m having joint problems and my cholesterol count is high …. but I digress) want the following to be known: (1) If I become brain dead like Terri Schiavo (or like Michelle Malkin) and I am adjudicated as such by whatever reasonable … Read More
Two Heads Aren’t Better Than One
From Germany: Man with two penises loses wife A German who persuaded doctors to give him a second penis has lost his wife after he showed her the result. Biker Michael Gruber, 40, lost his original penis in a motorbike accident and doctors built him a second one using a mixture of skin, bone and other tissues from his own … Read More
Fish Tales
Animal supersititions, alpabetically arranged. Here’s a sample: Fish Throw back the first fish you catch then you’ll be lucky the whole day fishing. It’s bad luck to get married when the fish aren’t biting, according to the custom of some fisherfolk. A fish should always be eaten from the head toward the tail. Dream of fish: someone you know is … Read More
Fundies Stole My Jesus!
That’s the cry of an angry single mom at, uh, the Angry Single Mom blog. Here’s a sample: Arthur Ruger wrote a thought-provoking article about the dichotomy between the Jesus of the New Testament and the Jesus of the fundamentalists. He correctly compares the High Priests of Evangelical Hyperbole to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, those responsible for Jesus’ death. … Read More
Keep The Safety In Your Mind. Forever.
A good Chinglish site can be found here. Below, to whet your appetite, is some operating instructions to a motor scooter.
A Lot of Pennies
This is a penny. We all know how big it is, how much space it takes. But what about a thousand pennies? A million pennies? Can you visualize it? The MegaPenny Project might be able to help you realize just how big some numbers (like a billion) really is. For example: This is a thousand pennies. This is a million … Read More
Love Me Dooce
I just noticed that Dooce.com won the 2005 Bloggie Award for (1) Best American Weblog; (2) Most Humorous Weblog and (3) Best Writing of a Weblog. All well-deserved. Dooce.com is the personal journal of Heather Armstrong, an ex-Mormon and all-around cutie. Her blog has the rare distinction of becoming a generic word — "dooced" means "to be fired from one’s … Read More
Revisionist History
From dribbleglass.com: The following are actual excerpts from history reports and tests from America’s finest high schools and colleges. Spelling has been preserved. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of huge triangular cubes. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The French Revolution … Read More
Where Am I?
Via Yglesius, bold the places you’ve been, underline the places you’ve lived in, and italicize the place you live now: Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / … Read More
Bloggers vs. Journalists
Matt Yglesius informs us all of the difference between bloggers and journalists in this fine post: He Said / She Said I went down to Norfolk to be on a panel discussion with The Washington Post‘s Mike Allen, talking about blogs to interested Virginia Press Association members. Mike had something to say on the topic of "he said, she said" … Read More
Top Twenty Worst Americans
Several blogs were surveyed and asked to list, in order, the twenty worst figures in American history. Here are the results for right-winger bloggers, as tallied here: Honorable Mentions: Ted Bundy (5), Jane Fonda (5), John Wayne Gacy (5), John Walker Lindh (5), Joe McCarthy (5), Michael Moore (5), Boss Tweed (5) 17) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (6)17) John Walker (6)17) … Read More
On Clicking The Link
Kevin Drum does gives a beautiful example of how the rightwing blogosphere likes to be, uh, less than truthful in their reporting. Oh, they have links to back up what they say . . . except for the fact that . . . . well, I’ll let Kevin Drum explain: Here is why you should always click the link. Today, … Read More