Year 2005

See, Here’s The Thing

I was totally going to write up a couple of posts this afternoon, but I had a meeting to attend and then my new 15″ Mac Powerbook came in, and, well, what would you have done? Maybe I’ll test out…

A Modest Proposal For Social Security

Mark Jacquith offers a fairly reasonable solution for the looming Social Security crisis: Stop paying benefits. Unintended perk: old people rioting is like regular rioting, but with canes, walkers, and in slow motion. Stop collecting Social Security taxes. It’s like…

Great Matters Of Pressing National Import

Attention, all carbohydrate addicts: all Krispy Kreme locations will be observing National Donut Day tomorrow, June 3rd, 2005, by giving each customer one (1) KK donut of their choice. You may now return to your regularly-scheduled life.

Words Fail Me

I’m not an Episcopal, but if I were, I’m pretty sure I’d be out-and-out offended by the first-ever Clown Eucharist. The scary thing is that they don’t appear to be joking. Actually, I’d almost prefer that they were doing so,…

Scorning “Deep Throat”

InstaPunk takes a rather large rhetorical stick to the notion that Mark Felt (aka the “Deep Throat” of Watergate fame that recently unmasked himself) in any way, shape or form represents a “hero” (a term being bandied about 24-hour cable…

Something Wonky This Way Comes

Apparently some nefarious malady has stricken my WordPress install – now all commenters, unless they are registered and logged in, show up as “Anonymous” when they attempt to post. I am working on a solution and am currently trawling the…