Rare is the time that I am brought almost to tears of mirth by judicial opinions, but I must make an exception for the exquisitely sarcastic pennings of the Hon. Samuel B. Kent of the Galveston (TX) District. From an…
A good rule of thumb is: if you need a protractor to properly express your outrage, you’ve probably gone too far. –Allahpundit, referring to Rightwing “Islamic crescent” conspiracy mongering in re: the United 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA
I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR during my drive home yesterday and heard them tease a review of Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest by “an unusual reviewer”. I thought to myself “They couldn’t possibly be…
I’m thinking I may make this a regular feature, as it helps me get the links on the virtual page and off my tab bar. Links The 10 Commandments of Cell Phone Etiquette. Sounds like a good start to me.…
Say you’re an international videogame company looking to help the world’s most powerful man celebrate his 60th birthday. What do you send him? Why, a Nintendo DS Lite, complete with a congratulatory letter and a copy of a popular brain-teaser…
William Shatner, channeling Frank Sinatra in a tribute to George Lucas. It just don’t get no stranger, folks.
There’s geeky, and then there’s putting on a production of Monkey Island* for your school play. Here’s hoping they do Grim Fandango next. *More about the Monkey Island games is available here.
It’s fortunate that Congress disbanded HUAC, else I might have had to place a call this evening. You see, I witnessed my family watching two former European Axis powers competing against each other. Playing metric footballsoccer. On the Fourth of…
Okay, time to toss out all the nifty links that I stumbled over in the past week but never really made it to “full post” status. Enjoy. Vids Kinetic destruction visited upon an old Toyota, rubber band-style. Robin Williams guest-starred…
I get all manner of annoying spam comments that pile up in my Akismet queue and I normally take a quick fly-by of the queue each morning to make sure that no legit comments were accidentally flagged. This morning, I…
