Note To Self
As best man in Brad’s upcoming wedding, remember to toast bride and groom, not bride and groom’s house. Got it. Think I can remember that one…
Month April 2005
“I Punched Saddam In The Mouth”
The Riverfront Times carries the riveting story of “Samir”, the naturalized Iraqi-American who helped the Army capture Saddam Hussein. Samir was apparently the first to get his hands on Saddam and took a good deal of pent-up rage out on…
I’ve Always Wondered About This
Eugene Volokh had an interesting post on the proper deployment of punctuation in proximity to quotation marks, particularly in regards to periods and commas. I’ve always been taught to place periods and commas inside of quotes, regardless of whether they…
Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle K
Has the WordPress world gone weird on us? You tell me: Rosie O’Donnell has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. Kevin Smith has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. One would think that the German WikipediaWikimedia site would…
What Sort Of A Man Lets His Wife Get Beat Up?
If I were at a Chuck E. Cheese with wife and daughter in tow and five teenage girls began to beat the daylights out of my wife, I’d hand my child off to the nearest bystander and wade in on…
Try To Keep Your Lunch Down
Is there anything more disgusting than seeing your elected officials playing political footsie with the disgusting House of Saud? Speak not to me of “Realpolitik” or “necessity”. To see my president cozying up in such a stomach-wrenching fashion is just…
Weekend Recap
Friday Night Friday night, Aron, Heather, my wife and I went out for sushi and then caught the 8:15pm showing of
By Grepthar’s Hammer!
…I swear that, should I ever occasion to meet the fool responsible for devising the Ovaltine ad campaign featuring ever-so-annoying children speaking in a completely stilted, unrealistic fashion, I’m going to give him a rich chocolatey punch in the stomach.
And You Thought Teddy Ruxpin Was Creepy!
Were I a Chinese schoolchild, I think I’d be quite reluctant to trust Baizhixing. *shudder* That puppy is the stuff nightmares are made of. Gah. Gives me the willies just looking at it.
I Keep Trying To Tell People, But Do They Listen?
Shame on Lileks. He went to Best Buy (cbtn) to replace a fritzy DVD player, managed to get upsold on a shady “HDTV” player and then discovered that Best Buy (cbtn) is no longer content with simply taking his money.…
