comic books reveal how we as humans tend to really feel about god: The origin of the comic god goes like this: The arrogant Thor needs a lesson in humility, so his father Odin, the ruler of all gods, sends him to Earth in the form of a crippled mortal to teach him to be […]
j2 says
upon farting on him, j2 says: chris, we really should stop doing that. me: why? j2: it really doesn’t smell good.
“Wow, what a load of horseshit.â€
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum: Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we’re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit. The kind of load of horseshit that has accreted over decades and has developed its own sort of […]
In the Cold November Rain
last night, having ridden to and from work almost every single day for 9 months, i rode home in the rain for the very first time. Technorati Tags: bicycle, cold, rain
groceries are expensive
i spent over twenty-five dollars today just on things for lunches at the office. ugh.
impeach bush
He had put his money, Mr. Bush, where your mouth was. So, your sleazy sycophantic henchman Mr. Gonzales had him append an asterisk suggesting his black-and-white answer wasn’t black-and-white, that there might have been a quasi-legal way of torturing people, maybe with an absolute time limit and a physician entitled to stop it, maybe, if […]
great headline: “Eye Ointment Can Cure Frog Fungusâ€
also a nice find, that will help save amphibians: Eye Ointment Can Cure Frog Fungus
Fun
First Chimp to Sign Dies
if i had known that i was two blocks away when i visted friends in ellensburg, i’d have insisted on going to visit her: A female chimpanzee believed to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language has died of natural causes at the Washington State research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first […]
Laika, first dog in orbit – Yahoo! News
Just nine days before the launch, Doctor Vladimir Yazdovsky chose one of them — 2-year-old Laika — for the mission. Stories about how she was chosen vary. Some say Laika was chosen for her good looks — a Soviet space pioneer had to be photogenic. Others say space doctors simply had a soft spot for […]
oops: little boy with matches burns down LA
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case. The boy, whose name and age were not released, admitted to sparking the fire on Oct. 21, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. […]
this has to stop
twitterific errors, a lot. i know it’s twitter’s fault, but i have errors set to “off” and it still notifies me, every single time. it’s he of annoying. also, the window never hides itself like it is supposed to. gah.
vajayjay adoption
The swift adoption of vajayjay is not simply about pop culture’s ability to embrace new slang. Neologisms are always percolating. What this really demonstrates, say some linguists, is that there was a vacuum in popular discourse, a need for a word for female genitalia that is not clinical, crude, coy, misogynistic or descriptive of a […]