January 2011
“That was another one of those WTF moments, when he has so often repeated, the...”
– Sarah Palin interprets the “Sputnik moment.”
“Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals...”
– Yahoo! News
1 tag
On a snowy evening.
After dinner, I put on my jacket and filled my pipe from a tobacco pouch I bought the previous day. Then I located my lighter, put on my hat, and stepped outside.
I lit my pipe and began to walk aimlessly. Soon I came upon a farmer’s field which was covered in new, undisturbed snow.
As I stood there, watching snowflakes conclude their journey to earth, I heard a voice coming from...
WatchInteractive hamster.
1 tag
Rabbis protest Beck's use of Holocaust imagery. →
Glenn Beck has done it this time. A group of rabbis is protesting his frequent use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery to describe people he doesn’t agree with or like. Why this scumbag is still on the air baffles me.
The Chinese President.
Inspired by recent events.
A. enters as B. is reading a newspaper.
A.: What's going on in the world?
B.: It says here that the Chinese President is coming for a state visit.
A.: Oh, yeah. What's his name?
B.: Hu.
A.: The Chinese President?
B.: Hu.
A.: The President of China is coming for a state visit?
B.: Yes.
A.: Does he have a name?
B.: Yes.
A.: What is it?
B.: Hu.
A. (frustrated): What are you asking me for? You're the one with a newspaper!
B.: I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
A.: You're not telling me what I want to know!
B.: What's that?
A.: The name of the Chinese President.
B.: Hu.
A. (even more frustrated): What are you asking me for?
B.: I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
A. (pulls out a world map, points to India): This is China.
B. (moves A.'s finger to China): That's China.
A. (furious): This is China.
B.: Yes.
A.: And it has a government of some kind?
B.: Yes.
A.: And this government has a president?
B.: Yes.
A.: So what is his name?
B.: Hu.
A. (slaps B. with the map): What are you asking me for?
B. (hands A. the newspaper): Here, read it yourself!
“A Long Island woman allegedly mowed down her cousin twice with a minivan after a...”
– NYPOST.com
1 tag
MTV renews Jersey Shore for season 4, sends cast... →
I don’t know which is worse: MTV renewing Jersey Shore or the cast going to Italy. I think Cuba would have been a better destination if they absolutely had to go somewhere.
“A team from Stanford University in California analyzed nationwide survey data...”
– Reuters
The Wall Moment.
My daughter: I want some pudding.
My wife: You need to eat some meat first.
My daughter: But I want some pudding.
Me: How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
“Less than a week after former Gov. Ed Rendell left office, he announced he is...”
– PennLive.com
They're rich and famous and in foreclosure. →
It is human nature to enjoy somebody else’s stumbling in life. This is especially true when the person who stumbles is either rich or famous. (Otherwise we wouldn’t have supermarket tabloids.) If you enjoy other people’s short comings, then this story from Yahoo! Finance will warm the cockles of your heart.
You are the only person stopping you from getting...
“Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward...”
– NYPOST.com
Speaker Boehner, where are the jobs bills? →
pantslessprogressive:
Full applause to Eclectablog for compiling the following list.
So far in the 112th Congress, the Republicans haven’t introduced a single jobs bill. However, from the Republicans, as of today, we have at least:
16 bills to repeal all or parts of the Affordable…
“A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in...”
– Reuters
Cat is summoned for jury duty in Boston. →
This story reads like something right out of The Onion, but it’s actually from the New York Daily News.
Vermont teen committed suicide at school. →
15-year-old Connor Menning was found unresponsive in a bathroom of his high school this morning. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The worst part is that the school did not close in the wake of Menning’s death.
State of the union.
The ship of state has run aground
Too late to turn this ship around
“It just so happens that the Rude Pundit was given a ticket to Spider-Man, and he...”
– The Rude Pundit
Words Shakespeare invented. →
This is a very interesting list.
“Disgusting charges have been filed in the death of a Southern Indiana woman....”
– WPMT
9 year old denied a trip to Disney World by US... →
Sometimes I come across examples of stupidity that simply astound me. This is one such example. What the hell were the immigration officials thinking?
“For all those who enjoyed watching Sarah Palin conquer the land of (blatant...”
– E! Online