I entered my son’s room this morning at the oh-so-wonderful hour of 5am. Awoken from my blissful sleep by his hungry cries, I expected a pleasant reception from my progeny. Instead, my boy had somehow figured out how to remove…
Glenn Reynolds and Radley Balko took issue this week with the Senate’s recent passage of a measure designed to curtail Internet gambling by American citizens. Reynolds and Balko object to the bill (well, technically, a rider on another bill) from…
I know that I’ve done my fair share of bashing the Philadelphia Inquirer over the years (most of it well-deserved) but I believe that they deserve a hearty attaboy for being one of the first major market media organizations to…
NBC has been seeing ever-worsening ratings these past few seasons, with last season’s output garnering them a fourth place finish behind Fox, if I recall correctly. Their endless Law & Order spinoffs and unfunny sitcoms seemed to indicate a network…
I bow before the meat-eating prowess of R. “Bacon Is A Vegetable” Stevens of Diesel Sweeties fame for his construction of the ultimate American food: Hot Dog Loaf. Take two all-beef franks, wrap them in traditional meatloaf-y goodness and then…
(Yes, that was a Strong Bad reference). I was about to have a coronary on my commute in this morning, as I had made the classic mistake of tuning in to NPR in lieu of the cruder-yet-somehow-more-morally-uplifting fare peddled by…
As I sit here watching the NFL on Fox, I find myself wondering: does Jon Lovitz ever get the nagging feeling that he’s reached the lowest point of his career, with his series of Subway restaurant ads? Or does he…
Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous “bomb turban Mohammed” Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such…
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find…
I’m basically sold on the concept of buying a Wii as of this moment, which makes the news that Nintendo will be selling Commodore 64 titles on their Virtual Console service just icing on the cake. It may be taking…
