Category Archives: general

Canada’s contribution to global warming?

Obviously these critics have never been to Canada- in the great white north beer fridges are used to warm up beer to the proper temperature, not keep it cool. If you left beer exposed in your garage in Canada, you would have beercicles, Ay.
And they wonder why people don’t take them seriously!
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Blasphemer!!

Woman convicted to 15 days of jail time for allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Mohammed”.
Read all about it.
I was going to go on a rant of how nothing would happen is someone named a teddy bear “Jesus”, but then came to my senses- a teacher probably would be fired for naming a [...]

Missed Anniversary #2

I forgot to wear a black armband on on Tuesday in support of those suffering under the “oppression” of climate change. On October 23, 1877 a patent was issued to Nicolaus Otto and Francis and William Crossley for the gasoline engine. We’ve been marching toward armageddon ever since. wink wink nudge [...]

Missed Anniversary #1

My favorite illustrator, Newell Convers (better known as NC) Wyeth, was born in Needham, MA on October 22, 1882.
I discovered him in 2nd grade when I picked up a battered version of Robin Hood in a used book sale at Woods Hole library and have been slowly collecting ever since.

In both PG-13 and R-rated versions

“THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS!”

Ordered this morning

The Hillary Clinton Nutcracker!

Message from the Fatherland

Well, the odds finally caught up with me. My run at ignoring physical pain that would send a normal person running to the doctor and walk away with no serious repercussions has finally ended.
Some simple signs not to ignore:

when your eyes are the color of egg yolks instead of egg whites, you’re in trouble.
when [...]

15 minutes to Wapner

Peace out to some cool beats.
Check out his YouTube channel.

Great beer, beautiful women, political sanity

I have got to move to the Czech Republic.

Freaky!

A collection of photos documenting a French(?) actress destroying herself with plastic surgery.
Sad, sad, sad. What a waste.
I have a name for it - Jessica Rabbit Syndrome.
Oh, not safe for work - boobage.

Damn the Swiss!

I spent part of Sunday assembling a new benchtop table saw. The Swiss let me down with the instructions:
Required tools:

Tool A
Tool B
Tool C
Tool D

So, I went and collected tools A, B, C, and D.
About half way through, when I’m at a point where somehow I’m managing to hold about six different components with two [...]

Stardust arrives

and gets four stars.
I read the book and like most of Gaiman’s stuff, it left me unsatisfied.
But the reviewer does say it has Lusty Wenches, always a draw in my book.

At least they’re trying

The Brits are ordering two new carriers.
As I see it, there is one major problem with this strategy, and that is, at a time when the English are cutting down on their fleet and support infrastructure, they are investing in two huge assets that require a deep support structure to be effective.
The strength of the [...]

More planned big mergers

Stop the madness!

Internet comment wisdom

By way of this at TJIC, I came across the following gem:
Comment- “My common sense was overpowered by my curiosity and I was unable to avoid listening to it.”
Response- “This statement, my friend, is truly the essence of internet substance and should be a 72 point banner on the YouTube homepage.”
That pretty much sums up [...]

Government intervention might not be all bad

I might have to reassess my feeling on government intervention- in San Fran no less,
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Elitist Asshats!

The Times of London did some amazing investigative journalism. They called ticket agents in three countries, and none of them new that BA had a carbon offset program (at additional cost). Their conclusion: BA is afraid that if people knew the real environmental impact of flying they would fly less, hurting BA’s [...]

Absolutely, Completely and Utterly…

pathetic.

Space is next

archenemy has posted about luxury private submarines before.
Now it seems the government and military are concerned.
boo hoo.

What would his great-great-grandfather think?

Now this is a freakin’ obituary:
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
The last line:
He never married.
Apparently he never found the time.