There's some clear scrubbing going on at the Sarah Palin wikipedia page, but I suppose that's to be expected. It's clearly being maintained by someone who wants to keep the page on the positive side, and she is being made to appear a touch more moderate than she is (no mention of polar bears yet, nor her creationism ( Read more... )

I...*really* hope that my reference to "2 Girls 1 Cup" did not cause anyone to go and watch the damn thing. I saw it referenced a few places on "ta interwebs"(tm), for instance in "Diesel Sweeties", and so looked at the wikipedia article, but I stopped there ( Read more... )

Which is more morally bankrupt?:

a - 2 Girls 1 Cup

b - a housing development advertising itself as being "just like 'The Truman Show' - everything's perfect!"

I so want this paragraph to be passed around. It comes from Ursula K. LeGuin's review, for The Guardian, of Salman Rushdie's novel "The Enchantress of Florence," and was quoted on the science blog "Evolving Thoughts ( Read more... )

But here's my schwag brag for the day:

E. got for me a gen-u-ine, fer real, player's jersey, the one they wear at home, with the 2007 World Series patch on the right arm, and....and....and....58 on the back!!

"WE'VE GOT A BLIND DATE WITH DESTINY...AND IT LOOKS LIKE SHE ORDERED THE LOBSTER!"

"A FISH FORK IS NO MATCH FOR MY MACHINE!!!"

"...or do I eat this sandwich??"

"The point is, your boy's a limey fork-flinger!"

"Where's the guy who pretends not to be Roy?"

That would be Mr. James K. Willmot, for daring to write, in the Louisville, KY, Courier Journal, about the glorious museum prepared in God's name by Answers in Genesis ( Read more... )

A plea for advice ( Read more... )

All hail George Boole!

Or not.