From last night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother:
Just a Burger? Just a burger. Robin, it’s so much more than “just a burger.” I mean…that first bite—oh, what heaven that first bite is. The bun, like a sesame freckled breast of an angel, resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below, flavors mingling in [...]
Yesterday at lunchtime, I stopped by at the office of my friend Heather, who was screaming and running when I walked in. Evidently a scorpion had gotten behind her desk and freaked her out, and some of the guys were taking it out to kill it. The thing was huge, too, at least [...]
Consider the following:
Dow absorbs biggest one-day loss in history: 777.68 points
Stocks plunged yesterday with the Dow Jones industrial average falling nearly 780 points—the biggest one-day point drop ever—after federal lawmakers failed to pass a $700 billion plan to bail out the financial system.
Nick Gillespie gives a useful insight to why headlines that are true, like [...]
A comment left on Crawley’s blog asks if I still like McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin:
John Wright gave Palin a thumbs up on his webpage following her convention speech. I think that John Wright clearly disagrees with her anti-abortion and creationist views. However he felt that she was ‘genuinely capable of appealing to the world [...]
So, the debate is now over, and this is my summary of the event, blogged live while watching it.
5:57pm Welcome. I’m watching this on Fox News because I heard Megyn Kelly was involved in the coverage, though I haven’t seen her yet. She’s HOT! Currently they’re talking about how McCain [...]
I’m not one for blaming the press on this and the media on that. For one, I’m a member of the news media, and I believe my coverage is neutral when it’s not supposed to represent my opinion. I’m also not a tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist, and I tend to be unenthusiastic [...]
I’ve had a cold for a few days now, and the excessive nose-rubbing prompted by this cold has left my nose rather raw, and the rawness of my nose has led to nose-bleeding, which has in turn led to the use of tissues to catch the blood, some of which I’ve thrown in the toilet [...]
A little reaction to a comment I left on Crawley’s blog first thing this morning. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, made some witless comments about the financial crisis, equating capitalism with idolatry or some such thing, and I remarked:
“I couldn’t object to a single paragraph more than if the devil himself boomed it [...]
If our leaders in Washington are to be believed, we should all be shitting ourselves right now. This is the most serious economic crisis facing the US economy since men rode on dinosaurs 4000 years ago (if our creationist friends have it right), and nobody knows what the hell to do about it. [...]
I love Apple and the iPhone, and have been (as I mentioned here) a Mac user for 16 years. Silicon Valley in general has always been a healthy home for libertarianism, and for a certain form of techno-utopianism wherein technology, and the freedom to create and use it, is seen as the answer to [...]
You know things are bad when the presidential campaign is put on hold so that the senators running for the White House can “deal” with the “historic” crisis facing the US economy. One problem is that nobody really knows what the hell is going on, although Bill Clinton articulated the general drift of it [...]
From Mamohanraj via Sarah Jones-Larson:
15.”He snapped my bra like a Concord taking off, and I was unhooked for love.”
14.”Yes, she was a woman who had once been a man, but she still knew how to flutter her eyelashes as well as those other hussies.”
13.”The heaving waves on the vast, ink-black ocean sent a salty spray [...]
My favorite comedian, Mitch Hedberg, died in 2005, a great loss to comedy. But he’s back!:
Mitch Hedberg was one of the most beloved comedians and world renowned for his off-kilter one-liners and inimitable style. He died in March of 2005 with nearly an album’s worth of new material he was preparing to record later [...]
