This trend towards new-fangled “tagless” undershirts and boxers? Ah’m fer it, nae agin’ it. I mean, this is the 21st century, after all. Why should we modern men have to deal with itchy waist and neck bands? UPDATE: Those “dye…
It’s not “saMwiches”, nor is it “saNGwiches”, it’s bleedin’ “saNDwiches”. Because, you know, I’d hate for your advertisers to go on your airwaves, touting their wares, and have them make utter fools of themselves with their 3rd grade pronunciation of…
Apparently, I am a Corporate Ninja. I slip unnoticed and unrecognized, flitting from meeting to meeting, from shadow to shadow. My identity is fluid – I move from alias to alias, identity to identity. I’m a regular Simon Templar. What…
The following photo has been making the rounds of milblogs and right-of-center blogs: Picture released by the U.S. Army Tuesday, May 3, 2005 shows a U.S. Army soldier comforting a child fatally wounded in a car bomb blast in Mosul,…
Loews theaters are going to begin publishing the actual start times of their movies (i.e., when the movie actually starts, not when all the obnoxious ante-film adverts run). Sweet. Now if only they didn’t charge friggin’ $10 a ticket…
…was that too cynical?
Why does it always rain on me? My wife and I agreed to dog-sit for my parents this weekend. I don’t know if this is a corollary of my bad customer service mojo, but every time we’re set to take…
Eggs-in-Toast Ingredients: 3 eggs 3 pieces of white bread 1 pat of salted butter 1 tall, skinny juice glass Salt and pepper Directions: Preheat medium frying pan over medium-high heat. Add pat of butter to pan and swirl to melt…
Darth Vader has started a blog. While his posts are funny enough, the comments provide auxiliary comedy by proving that even the Dark Lord of the Sith isn’t immune from job offers from the I.R.S. and Nigerian scam email. Kevin…
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…
