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I initially passed over the article about the woman who’s Love Handles Stopped a bullet and saved her life until I saw a news program where she was talking about in on video, how she thought she ought to loose weight until this happened and now she’s not going to try to loose weight… At […]

So the weatherman this morning says maybe a little accumulation of snow. After lunch the weatherman is saying we might get and inch by Tuesday morning.
After two hours on the road (the plow drivers must be listening to the same forecast) getting home in the snow I’m pulling into my driveway. There’s easily […]

I’m not at all sold on the need for a sarcasm punctuation mark and for a few very good reasons.
First, not all sarcasm is created equal - for example there is the generic sarcasm and then there is my preferred . Would there be a variety of punctuations to identify the type of sarcasm?
Second, […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve noticed the girls getting all worked up and barking at something several times an evening. But there’s nothing going on…. I think I may finally have figured it out though, thanks to the game of musical rawhides currently underway in our living room….
Sophie is barking at the front door, […]

With 2010 almost here you’re going to be bombarded with reviews of 2009 from every news, talk, entertainment and variety show being produced so why not head them all off and get the straight scoop from Dave Barry’s year in review.

I’m not a big Conan fan - not that I don’t like him but if I want to watch potty humor TV I can tune into a Simpsons or Family Guy episode. But he did good, in my view, with this gig:

I’m not so sure Shatner was as amused (he’s not exactly known for being […]

I’ve been waiting for them to release the new Star Trek (2009) on DVD. When it was released this past Tuesday I had the Missus grab a copy and tonight we sat down to watch it. I’m working late so she gets it opened and all set up so that when I sit down.
So […]

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If you want to help me rectify that situation, meaning pay me to write fluff reviews, my email is to […]

This will make you laugh, then it will make you cry…
Though I can’t see the govt computer systems being that competent….

The BMV has new identification documentation requirements going into effect in 2010 and are running a series of commercials on the local radio stations to make people aware so they can prepare. Hearing one of those commercials I wondered how it would effect me so I look at my license…
… and it expired 3 […]

We most certainly won’t be sleeping through any weather alerts. When our weather radio goes off Scout hears that voice talking and is very unhappy and lets us know it. He just knows there is someone in the house that doesn’t belong and is quite upset that he can’t come in and eat them… hard […]

George Carlin is, well… George Carlin so if you’ve sensitive ears don’t press play.

He has to a large degree come to the right conclusion although much of his perspective is based on evolution-as-fact. But that makes this segment even more striking, that someone as rabidly liberal as Carlin, who’s belief in evolution is very obviously […]

How many times have you found yourself telling someone “Google is your friend” when they ask you a question? I know I must say that to people on a daily basis. And it’s not necessarily that these people aren’t smart, just not tech - non techie people are not as likely to use Google to […]

I wonder if Bill President Clinton being sent to Haiti could be considered attempted murder?
Bill + island of tropically clad Caribbean women + one of the highest HIV rates in the world = they’re trying to off him!

That’s Breast-feeding While Intoxicated…. I would have thought she’d been charged with delivering a controlled substance to a minor….

For years one of my memes has been “sarcasm, just one of the services we offer”. Little did I know how useful a service it would become. As a major purveyor of sarcasm services my personal economy is swinging out of the recession as demand for my services rise.
(and if you missed the sarcasm […]

I know someone who could use a set of these! At least for a few more weeks….

The real Better Off Dead?

This one never gets old….

I don’t blame him… I’d have turned down installment payments, too…. to easy to default!

Thanks to Louie for keeping the The Banned SNL Skit alive despite NBC’s efforts to kill it.

This pretty much speaks for itself….

Peter Schweizer of the Chicago Examiner takes an interesting look at whether Conservatives more honest than liberals using data from multiple studies. As always the comments posted below the story offer further insight. One poster even goes so far as to say the opposite of Schweizer’s assertion is true because liberals are honest on […]

I don’t tend to wear T-shirts with a message, and especially no political messages but I think I found one that I might wear, McCain 2008!.

Having worked in IT and service desk for so many years I’ve heard a lot of the technology shorthand for the guy or gal on the other end of the phone. Also having spent a few years in food service management I know there is shorthand in that profession as well. So I guess I […]