…or at least 500 pounds.
The line between the Onion and the MSM continues to blur.
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A picture is worth a thousand words…
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Modern day bootleggin’
Monday, March 31, 2008
Bottled water joins the realm of fireworks and alkyd housepaint.
Are Chicagoans trekking to the suburbs to buy cases of bottled water — and avoid a new nickel-a-container tax that adds $1.20 to the price of a 24-pack? Or are they making the switch to tap water to save money?
From the Lipstick on a Pig Department
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Globe
To soothe the bruised egos of educators and children in lackluster schools, Massachusetts officials are now pushing for kinder, gentler euphemisms for failure.
Instead of calling these schools “underperforming,” the Board of Education is considering labeling them as “Commonwealth priority,” to avoid poisoning teacher and student morale.
Schools in the direst straits, now known as “chronically underperforming,” [...]
Mousetraps
Saturday, March 15, 2008
After a few years of informal research I have found that redundantly named “Hershey’s Extra Dark Pure Dark Chocolate” is the best all around bait. I break off the corners, throw them in the little sticky trap, and eat the rest with a coffee chaser.
Toblerone actually works better but I have trouble sharing it with [...]
Crispy on the Outside
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Baylen Linnekin used to edit one of my daily reads, To the People. Word comes now that he has moved on to a new blog, Crispy on the Outside. A law student, he describes his new venture as such-
Crispy on the Outside is an unsavory helping of opinionated slop, dishing each weekday on everything from [...]
Heaven forbid…
Thursday, February 28, 2008
…a capitalist venture engages in collectivist tactics.
Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged hiring people to fill seats before the start of a contentious federal hearing on how the company manages its broadband network, allowing its employees to take those seats when the filled-to-capacity hearing started.
I…uh…I…ewwww…
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
yuck
A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.
I don’t have many unfounded fears. This would be one of them. Snakes. Not the swallowing part.