Juan Cole, Middle Eastern Studies professor extraordinare is an ever-cheerful [Sarcasm! -ed.] voice on the US’s progress in Iraq, faithfully tallying the body counts and finding the cloud in every silver lining, at least when it comes to our mission…
Observed on a red Mazda RX-8 turning in to Abington Hospital: PA plate “DR PETE”. Observed on a silver Toyota Prius headed West from Philadelphia: “LAWPROF”.
Blogging has (obviously) been light today, as I had three meetings today. That, combined with it being a Chinese Tuesday meant that I actually sat in front of my computer for what seemed like a grand total of 35-45 minutes,…
If you’re a *snort* geek like me, you may very well enjoy Engadget’s retrospective “from” 1985, featuring the latest news on cellphones, Windows 1.0 and the Engadget “Tapecasts”. It starts out thusly: WELCOME TO THE ENGADGET BBS August 22, 1985…
You’ve got to hand it to the Iowa Hawkeyes – they sure know how to make a visiting team feel wanted. What better way to reaffirm the perceived masculinity of a visiting football squad than painting the visiting locker room…
Frank J. offers an urgent call to President Bush and I, too, urge him on in this pursuit: punch Senator Chuck “Junior Maverick” Hagel square in the face. The amount of hyperventillating going on on NPR over Sen. McCain, Jr.’s…
Proof, once again, that vanity can do very, very strange things to people: Meet the Real-Life ‘Ken’ Doll. I feel sorry for the poor guy. He actually thinks he looks good, as opposed to hideous. And not just ordinary hideous,…
I came across mention of an interesting game in my daily flitting about the Internet[s] the other day, but slipped into that game link was a far more intriguing fact: Scott had stumbled across the game via Jeff Bridges’ site.…
What is it about the Home Depot? Is there a pheremone that they’ve locked on to that causes Y chromosomes to hum like a plucked string? I’m not much of a handyman, as my wife can tell you, yet today,…
I knew that ribbon campaigns (AIDS ribbons, Breast Cancer ribbons, etc.) had Jumped the Shark when Rush Limbaugh began touting a method for turning $1 bills into “tax awareness” ribbons. I knew that magnetic “ribbon” campaigns (Support Our Troops, Autism…
