Commenter “George Pal” started a discussion yesterday with this remark in the “voter fraud” thread: Reason #1016 NOT to vote: a corrupt government with gin trap election procedures. Participating in pretense legitimates the pretense. The system, the procedures, become more … Continue reading →
Democrats need black voter participation to have any chance of holding the line in the 2014 elections. It’s no secret that black people vote heavily Democratic. And it’s no secret that they were extremely helpful in Obama’s 2008 and 2012 … Continue reading →
It’s for real. Fun half-and-half photos at the link. [Hat tip: Maetenloch at Ace’s.]
Continue reading →I can answer the question, even if she can’t: she did. My title is a reference to one of the most famous ad campaigns in history:
Continue reading →…really tired of all these news stories about tips. Bad tips, good tips, insulting tips, life-transforming tips. Happy waiters/resses, sad waiters/resses, kind patrons, mean patrons. Pay it forward, pay it backward. I don’t care. There. I feel better now.
Continue reading →I’m a sucker for these “100 best” lists, even if I’ve never heard of the people doing the choosing. So I couldn’t resist this one, where I discovered I’d never even heard of most of the animated movies they’ve listed, … Continue reading →
Some tips on taking a selfie, especially in a bikini. The main one seems to be to suck in your gut. Suck in your gut—who would have thunk it? But alas, there’s a limit to how much a suck can … Continue reading →
Remember the 80s game show “Chain Reaction”? I do. I liked it because you had to be a bit clever to play, and it was about words. In case you don’t remember, this might refresh your memory: Maureen Dowd must … Continue reading →
I was at a country fair recently and saw a sign for an event called rabbit hurdling. It was no misprint, either, because it featured a little drawing of a bunny jumping over a hurdle, something like a horse would. … Continue reading →
Clogging fifty years ago (hat tip: “cornei”), from some baby boomers: And here’s a much more recent manifestation. There are some interesting stylistic changes—and of course, this is more formal and regimented, perhaps because it’s a competition: What do the … Continue reading →
I was having trouble with my iPod the other day, and while trying to troubleshoot it (it’s fixed now) I came across an entry in my iTunes library that was part of a reel-to-reel tape I had originally made in … Continue reading →
…of videos on YouTube that can be reached by searching for “dog eating with human hands”? Yes, human ingenuity is just that awesome. I do find them perversely amusing. For example: Although it’s blatantly obvious how it was done (the … Continue reading →