One of the things that the Internet has provided is a lot of bad writing, writing that would not pass a freshman English course. I have generated some of it, but this is my little blog and I really don’t give a damn if people like it or not. HuffPo is one of the larger [...]
Imus tells listeners he has prostate cancer Don Imus says he’s battling stage two prostate cancer. Imus said he got a good look at it this morning when he had his head up his ass. Sarah Palin says Bristol is doing fine. Palin was taking a break from governing the nation’s largest state to help [...]
There is a great article in the NY Times about keeping primates as pets. The interesting thing about the article is that there are no good stories about the animals. This encapsulates the process. LOCAL and state regulations determine whether it’s legal to keep a primate pet, but April Truitt, the executive director of the [...]
It is easy to hate Hollywood because it is such a fat target to hate on. Mickey Rourke is on the red carpet at the Oscars and the interviewer remarks about the medallion hanging around Rourke’s neck. “She’s the love of my life. She made it until six days ago. She left me at a [...]
Some people lost more than others in the current meltdown. Here’s a list of the top 20 losers including this guy, who also lost his mind.
I found this blog, which doesn’t allow comments, so I can’t comment there. I’ll comment here. It’s a women’s sports blog, and the writer makes the argument that even if women suck at a sport, it’s okay. In the debates over women’s suffrage, some proponents argued that women should vote because they would provide an [...]
I ran across this page after seeing that Nancy Lieberman was, at the age of 50, rejoining the WNBA team, the Detroit Shock. The game begins and suddenly my faculties are barraged with scene after scene of flailing ponytails and basketballs careening dangerously in every direction. At one point, Terry and Doris commented on the [...]
If JMan were here, I would get him to say “Well, duh.” to me a few times just so I could hear the dripping incredulity that an eight year old can bring to those two words. I would do it so I could have some sound effects to go with this story. In Duluth, MN, [...]
Some dweeb at MSNBC is writing about the football games today and says that The conference championship games are of interest in four cities all smaller than Milwaukee. Ahem. Nielsen tells a different story. The national rankings for the four media markets are Seattle, 13 Denver, 18 Pittsburgh, 22 Charlotte, 27 Milwaukee is 33.