OK, I really must be premenstrual, because my reaction to the first item on http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/scariest-new-restaurant-foods of so-called scary meals was not "OMG, heart attack" but rather "OMG, I WANT ONE NOW."

(Whoever wrote that article has clearly never tasted the fried-carbohydrate amazingness that is a french-fry po'boy

"When Claudine Hall came home on the night of September 24, 1969, and found that her General Electric portable television set had been taken out of her apartment by Sylvia Garson, it is not likely that she realized that basic issues of Federal Court jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of that unfortunate stepchild of Federal procedure, the three- ( Read more... )

Having to open your beer (cider) with a potato masher.

I'm just sayin'.

Last night as I was driving home, there was a car in front of me with an Arkansas license plate. The little tagline at the bottom read: "The Natural State."

Because I'm twelve, I immediately thought, "OMG! Everyone in Arkansas is naked!"

I [do not] find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the framers [of the Constitution] particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect ( Read more... )

For unexplainable reasons, I love this picture (worksafe) by Asaf Einy. It's sort of like my Hopper icon as a photograph.

Pakistani leader: Bin Laden 'may be dead' - or not

So he's Schrödinger's terrorist?

Well, we have no way of knowing whether he's really alive, so actually he's neither alive nor dead! That must take some talent.

And overriding their governor's veto!

I love how the yay-gay contingent is now Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont...and Iowa. Iowa makes me bizarrely happy. We're here, we're Midwestern, we're marrying gay people.

Both by Lucille Clifton.

"what the mirror said"

listen,
you a wonder.
you a city
of a woman.
you got a geography
of your own.
listen,
somebody need a map
to understand you.
somebody need directions
to move around you.
listen,
woman,
you not a noplace
anonymous
girl;
mister with his hands on you
he got his hands on
some
damn
body!

And for crafting_change, ( Read more... )

Whoa, now here's a thought to chew on (particularly in light of the Commerce Clause, for any Constitution nerds out there, but just in general as well):

[T]he rapist takes that to which he has no right. The consequence [is] a forced transfer of wealth [to] the rapist. [In] short, rape is an economic crime, and the act of rape constitutes economic ( Read more... )