Have you seen the latest meme floating around the ‘Net, the facts about Chuck Norris? Some are downright hilarious, including: 4. The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain. 14. In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Chuck…
In local news, New Jersey “Don’t Call Me Acting” Governor Dick Codey revealed NJ’s new state slogan yesterday: “New Jersey: Come See For Yourself”. However, there was little discussion of the entries that weren’t selected. We here at Literal Barrage…
By way of Dean Esmay, we have this wonderful, beautiful news: Serenity Might Fly Again? Loni Peristere, visual-effects supervisor for the SF movie Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that there’s hope for future flights of the cast and crew of…
Rummy knew how to get down, y’all: I mean, dig him mackin’ on that geisha. Man knew how to treat a woman, know what I mean? Source: First Post, by way of American Digest.
From today’s Bleat: Actually, it was a reminder of another obligation and duty of parenthood: to teach your kid to believe in something – in this case, conservation & ecological good-citizenry – based on rationality and facts, not emotion and…
How else to explain the fact that I managed to injure my thumb yesterday when trying to open a pistachio, so much so that it pains me even to type these very words? I don’t care who you are, a…
I stumbled across an article over on Slate (by way of a Slashdot story) that attempts to answer, in a nutshell, the essential question PC users the world over ask themselves “Why can’t Microsoft get security right?”. The article, unfortunately,…
From Powerline’s rough transcript of today’s Alito confirmation hearings comes the following gem of an exchange: […][SPECTER:] Do you agree that Casey is a super-precedent or a super stare decisis, as Judge Luttig said? ALITO: Well, I personally would not…
MacWorld ’06 started today, and what did Steve Jobs announce but the very first Intel-powered Macintoshes. One was the iMac, as predicted, the other was the newly-christened MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999. Of course, the base model is for poseurs…
There is apparently a prohibition on cameras at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia, supposed final resting place of Mohammed, and, since the entirety of Mecca is off-limits to kafir (Arabic for “infidel”) such as myself, there’s precious little visual…
