So I was talking with someone the other day, and we got to talking about baseball and the Cleveland Indians. They had lost to his home team, but I honestly couldn't say that I knew anyone on the team today. Although I could probably spell out the lineup for 1997 or so. Which got me thinking- could I do it? Here is my try (I honestly didn't ( Read more... )

"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," a suburban Colorado mother, Shanneen Barron

Ok, seriously, seriously,

what-the-f*ck-bar-be-que.

I literally had to spell it out.  WTF?  WTFBBQ?

Obama wants to give a speech to school kids about *gasp* STAYING IN SCHOOL.  And what results are attitudes like the quote ( Read more... )

I really have. I tried looking for this song, and it's not on youtube!!! and EVERYTHING is on youtube. Anyway you can go here and listen.

I finally found an embeddable clip! I nearly died from laughing. John Oliver is great.

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Also this one at a "tea party"

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Driving home from work yesterday I take Branch Ave, and then make a left onto Pennsylvania Ave.  Now Penn Ave has five lanes, three going into the city in the morning, and three going out of the city during the evening ('A' on the picture).  Thus, during the evening, you cannot turn into lane B.  However, that is an awfully small sign, and I have ( Read more... )

So, I’m reading this book by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink: the power of thinking without thinking. In general it’s pretty good. It goes into the value of a gut feeling, what affect it, etc. And then he starts talking about the Implicit Association Test.  And little did he know, he picked up on pretty much the only bone I have to pick with ( Read more... )

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I am most decidedly not a blond.  However, that doesn’t mean that I’ve never had a blond moment, and I’d like to take some time to share one with you.

It was spring break a couple of years ago, and my plan was to go from USC in Columbia, SC to Columbus, OH to visit one of my old roommates, then to Univ of Miami to see some people, then back down ( Read more... )