Bwah ha ha!

So many weakly crafted jokes, so little time. Anyhow, read the story about how folks in Cape Cod "lost" a lighthouse, but someone figured out it has actually been near San Francisco for over 80 years.

This is rather messed up

The guy married his donor's widow?! ...And he also shot himself? (Side note: I found this while looking through Warren Ellis's blog. He rocks.)

The second paragraph is rather "re"-heavy

I really enjoy it when the folks at Slate write sniping columns against each other. Recently, Ron Rosenbaum, whom I only notice when he inveighs against something, heaped praise on incandescent bulbs last week. The Green Lantern of Slate's sector, Brendan Koerner, fired off a missive this week in defense of CFLs.

This reminded me of when the webmag's personal firebrand, Christopher Hitchens, wrote an article for Vanity Fair last year, respectfully titled, "Why Women Aren't Funny." This resulted in two responses: columnist Dahlia Lithwick's clever retort in her obituary of Molly Ivins, and Laura Kipnis's book review of humorist Patricia Marx's latest work.

That's not incense and peppermints, it's burning vinyl

Google's WikiHow link today was "How to Make a Salvador Dali Clock." This sounded interesting, until I found out you have to destroy a vinyl record to do so. I do enjoy the warnings though, which remind people of the temperature of things removed from an oven, and the etiquette of taking a friend's record and giving them back a clock.

At least there was the cutesy use of a Strawberry Alarm Clock record for the demonstration.

India rules!

My tale of yesterday's trip to Omaha should come tomorrow. But today, the acme of all news stories, from last month.

It's official, we have a new favorite

I have recently added a few webcomics to my routine, based on others' recommendations. While xkcd can be quite neat, the one that truly speaks to me is Dr. McNinja.

Chris Hastings has brilliantly weaved together a storyline which includes ninjas, pirates, dinosaurs, apes, zombies, robot bears, boys with magnificent mustaches, and the clone of Benjamin Franklin. I won't link to all of these, because that would be silly. However, I will link to today's strip, because it made me laugh out loud.

Who leaves a person handcuffed in a holding cell, anyway?

Slate's Explainer just gave how-to instructions for slipping handcuffed arms over your head. It was mildly disturbing to hear Michelle Tsai read it during the podcast.

Does this statement really appeal to anyone?

So, I like to lump Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo, and Sam Brownback together as the same candidate, because they clearly engage in the same style of pandering to the churches on the conservative end of the political spectrum. Of course, the Rev. Tim Rude informs me that their differences are more apparent than I initially perceived.

Returning to the title of this post, I am stunned to see that someone with such religious conviction as Tom Tancredo would be wearing horse-blinders with regard to the sensitivity of 1/5 of the world's population, including at least 1 million of his fellow citizens. It just sounds like someone didn't deal well with bullies growing up.

Hurry up with the straw poll and the caucuses. I want these three to go away. I can deal with McCain, Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani. Oh, and Ron Paul, too. Libertarians are amusing.

I'm so proud!

*sniff*
Go Pooky!

Stars and stripes forever

I enjoyed this Slate slideshow regarding the uniforms of the US National Soccer Team. However, I couldn't help but feel that this looked somewhat familiar...

Oh yeah, and this reminds me, ew.

some neat stuff here

Now I understand the issues between Venezuela and Mexico.