Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

“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…

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.