Okay, two things about the subject:

One, I'm a couple of days late. Frankly, I don't know if I would have written on Friday anyway, I was just happy to be at home. (More on that later.) But as you might have noticed, I haven't written anything in here in five months, so as you might be able to tell, this hasn't been my first outlet of expression ( Read more... )

Although jalfrdprufrocky essentially said what I wanted to, I'll post this anyway.

If I ever get the idea of visiting a Muslim-majority country, please remind me of Gillian Gibbons and thisSeriously, what the hell is wrong with those people? I know not all Muslims are like this; I would like to think that most aren't. But to take that much offense over a damn ( Read more... )

It's official: I've lost all respect for the Nobel Prize.

I really don't think all these environmentalist evangelicals understand that if we do what they want when they want, the world will come to a stand still. Actually, what's worse is if they do understand that.

There are two versions to this commentary about the Rutgers basketball player suing Don Imus and CBS for slander and defamation of character.

Short version

Who the hell is Kia Vaughn?

Longer versionSeriously, before reading this story, did you have any idea who Kia Vaughn was? Did anyone outside of her family and her classmates know? Did ( Read more... )

I don't exactly consider O.J. Simpson a sympathetic figure (writing a book called "If I Did It" really, really doesn't help), but every time the Goldman family sues him for more money, I feel less and less charitable toward them as well, especially with quotes like this made in their favor:

"Basically [the judge] said to Mr. Simpson, 'Pay up,'" ( Read more... )

No. Yes. No.

These are my answers to the three questions leading this Chicago Sun-Times article about a law professor who feels he was denied a raise because of comments he made about the differences between Jewish and black law students ( Read more... )

Drew Carey and The Price Is Right

As a fan of The Price Is Right as long as I can remember, I was more than interested in who would be Bob Barker's successor. I had my preferences in game show veterans Todd Newton and Tom Bergeron (even though I'm not sure the latter was even a candidate), my hope-beyond-hope rejections with Rosie O'Donnell ( ( Read more... )

There is an article on Yahoo! News about the translation (or more accurately, transliteration) of politicians' names to Chinese characters. Interesting in itself, but easily my favorite part of the article was:

But perhaps the most perplexing translation would be for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's name, which could be read as "Sun Moon Rainbow ( Read more... )

This came to me as I was working on something similar the other day.

Kentucky (prop. n.): A red state that's blue with a blue section that's red.

I probably won't use it, but I did like it.

Jerry Falwell is dead. Now if we can just get rid of Pat Robertson and Billy Graham (and maybe Graham's assclown son Franklin, too).