You can hire your very own paprazzi.

So wrong, but the BBC story about pengiun rape cracked me up.
BBC can have some fantastic headlines ( Read more... )

On a desk in the West Dennis library, all the Left Behind books are lined up, with a sign at the end saying: "More Danielle Steel books in the alcove."

When a book comes into my hands, whether through the library computer system, or browsing through the stacks--and finding it to be signed by the author.

Even if it doesn't turn out to be very good.

Slogan:

“If you have to say ‘State,’ we don’t want you.”
-David Brenenman, in Dan Voelpel's column

This word is not a coy euphenism (yes, my first thoughts were along such lines). No, instead it is a reference to this decade, following "nineties". The term works, but why have I not come across it at all until, I swear, less than two weeks ago, and now find in all sorts of multiple unrelated places. Has the word just recently been coined? Or ( Read more... )

"As a Lutheran, I fully reject the gospel of prosperity, primarily on the grounds that I'm pretty sure it makes Jesus throw up in his mouth a little bit every time he thinks of it."

-Nadia Bolz-WeberAmen to that. Not that I really have thought amount it much; my reaction being "Where the hell does that reading come from ( Read more... )

The End is dead to me. I have been listening to it less and less frequently, not simply due to moving away, but because of the way it has become Carolla half the time, crap taking over the afternoon, and leaving me with only the faint memory of the Alternative Declaration(s ( Read more... )

Once in a while, there is actual good news to be found:
"the late James P. Grant, a little-known American aid worker who headed Unicef from 1980 to 1995 and launched the child survival revolution with vaccinations and diarrhea treatments, probably saved more lives than were destroyed by Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined."
-Kristof's latestAin't that ( Read more... )

Dear Lady-on-the-computer-kitty-corner-to-me-in-the-library ( Read more... )

I took a quiz to see where my ideal city is ( Read more... )