On a Lighter Note…
Well, he’s already started Down Under (gee, those kids are lucky)! Norad is tracking Santa like they do every year (they’ve even managed to capture some video!) and St. Nick is working his way around the South Pacific right now. He must be hot in that suit!
… circa 1938. H/T Dave Barry. Here are the first two tips, sans the illustrative photographs – again, circa 1938 – that accompany each tip. DO YOUR DRESSING in your boudoir to keep your allure. Be ready to go when date arrives; don’t keep him waiting. Greet him with a smile! MEN DON’T LIKE girls…
The term “Bushitler” and assorted variations were a staple of the two terms of the forty third President of the United States. (Possibly the fact that he had the temerity to win a second term fueled its usage.) Yet in a recording at an unidentified venue, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse purports not to have seen or…
Having some kind of head cold nastiness for the better part of a week has left me more befuddled than usual and less able to focus thanks to various apothecary concoctions. Here’s what I’ve been muttering about…. Apparently, Gen. Treasurer Frank Caprio is going to campaign as a right-of-center progressive. Tiger Woods has garnered a…
What not to bring grocery shopping. [Side note: regrettably, due to England’s onerous laws regulating the movement of livestock, it will be six days before the “victim” is reunited with his flock.] How not to effectuate a get-away should your holiday cash flow necessitate the mugging of an armored car driver. What not to buy…
Courtesy the Hummel Report Ocean State Follies.
Saturday Night Live’s most recent parody of President Obama (he’s finally fair-game, apparently) calls attention to his “Wimpy Economics”–pay now, and we promise you’ll receive later. Right. “I am noticing that each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money.” Health care “reform” is but the latest example–cuts and taxes will kick…
A serious level of absurdity has been reached when a real life incident evokes a scene from Python. H/T Michael Graham, who points out today that an assistant principal at Danvers High School has unsmilingly attempted to extend the fun outside of the school.
… who are now sputtering, as I did, that the latest addition to the Mercedes Benz line will require us to tack on a modifier (i.e., “original”) when referencing that marvelous vehicle, Dan Neil of the Los Angeles Times offers a little salve inasmuch as he could not keep out of his review of the…
Oh, happy day! It’s been a rough week on a number of fronts, but not only have we made it to Friday, but Ferry Halim has a new game up on his Orisinal site, which is a more rare occurrence than it ought to be. “Drifting Afternoon,” the new game, doesn’t have the addictive gameplay…