Note To Self
As best man in Brad’s upcoming wedding, remember to toast bride and groom, not bride and groom’s house. Got it. Think I can remember that one…
Category Observations
Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle K
Has the WordPress world gone weird on us? You tell me: Rosie O’Donnell has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. Kevin Smith has a blog and it’s powered by WordPress. One would think that the German WikipediaWikimedia site would…
What Sort Of A Man Lets His Wife Get Beat Up?
If I were at a Chuck E. Cheese with wife and daughter in tow and five teenage girls began to beat the daylights out of my wife, I’d hand my child off to the nearest bystander and wade in on…
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…
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.
I Keep Trying To Tell People, But Do They Listen?
Shame on Lileks. He went to Best Buy (cbtn) to replace a fritzy DVD player, managed to get upsold on a shady “HDTV” player and then discovered that Best Buy (cbtn) is no longer content with simply taking his money.…
You Might Be A Redneck If…
To add fuel to Nobrainer’s Wal Mart fire, not only is Wal Mart “responsible” for costing the taxpayers of the US $1.6B a year, it’s also responsible for helping launch Jeff Foxworthy’s career, thereby costing a goodly-sized portion of the…
Cutting A Little TOO Close To Reality
If only today’s Dilbert weren’t so true, I might actually have a good chuckle over it: *sigh*
NPR Is Going To LOVE The New Pope
[/sarcasm off] I’m actually a bit shocked that the College of Cardinals selected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany (Pope Benedict XVI, from now on) so quickly. I think it bodes well for the future of the Catholic church, though, that…
Today’s Trend: Lookout, Consumers!
Wonderful. Can either of these two stories result in anything good for your average Joe Sixpack technology consumer? Gamestop to buy Electronics Boutique for $1.44B. I guess I’ll be buying all of my video games online from now on, since…
