RIP Dunkin' Donuts Guy

In addition to an enduring legacy in pop culture for hawking delicious pastries, I'd like to give props to the man for redeeming the "toothbrush" style of moustache... because of you, Hitler didn't ruin it for everyone.

The Lunar Embassy

Meet Dennis Hope, the sole proprietor and owner of the Sol system (excluding Earth and the Sun). Somebody should probably explain to him the legal concept of res communis.

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You know, I can field strip and reassemble an M4 carbine in less than 2 minutes, but wrapping paper defeats me every damn time. Thank Gawd for gift bags.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, my thoughts often turn to Iraq now that I've returned home safe and sound. It's hard not to, especially as the news always turns to the "Global War on Terror" in order to give us some new unpleasantness to contemplate nightly. Today Fearless Leader estimated that 30,000 souls have perished in Iraq since the invasion, the ( Read more... )

Today I took the written test and physical agility test for the Madison Police Department. I started at 8 this morning, and I just got done at 1pm. I didn't do too horribly, I guess. I know I got every question right on the written portion-- all it was was a battery of vocabulary and reading comprehension. The essay portion was just a narrative ( Read more... )

Though my viral enemy sought to destroy my capacity for speech with an insidious assault on my larynx, I am pleased to announce I have vanquished this dread foe through sheer tenacity and the will to succeed at any cost. On the scorched and blistered earth of the battlefield, I alone stand tall, my beaten and admonished adversary crushed under the ( Read more... )

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time for some cheap pizza and cheaper beer....

Thinking about the Inferno tonight. I don't know what this costume thing is, and anyway, I don't have one. Unless I go in desert camo or something.

Get 'em, Murtha! Isn't it amazing how many of those Republican bastards never served a day in uniform?