by Ana Marie Cox And Jason Linkins
by D. R. Adams
You and I, we aren’t from here. I know I am not anyway and if this whole universe including me turns out to be a harsh game, well, consider my imagined heart crushed and my…
Here are the best kind of bags of salt & vinegar chips in the whole wide world. No big deal. They’re made by the Inventure Group, the dudes who bring us vacuum-packed bits of magic like Burger King French fries with…
Good news, Germanic shorts-wearers!
Newly invented lederhosen-style swimming shorts are going on sale at this year’s Munich Oktoberfest as a beer-proof alternative to the traditional leather breeches. Folk costume aficionados may frown — but…
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), upset by crowded conditions on the D.C. subway during this weekend’s “Tea Party,” sent a letter to “Washington’s Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable…
The folks at Old Jews Telling Jokes-find our favorite joke told by and old Jew here-have netted a print deal: “The book will feature hilarious, irreverent, and sometimes bawdy jokes told by ‘old Jews’ (both men and women, all over 60, including Ed Koch…
Do you know how much federal funding ACORN gets? On average, $3.1 million a year. Over 15 years, that’s like the kind of pork money our fine government spent on that stupid volcano monitoring program! It’s also half as much as the money ACORN helped poor…
Grapes: the foundation of civilization? Possibly. Besides cats, can you think of anything else so prominently featured in 5000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs that to this day remains a ‘must-have’ in the modern garden? (Seriously, don’t answer that.) Whatever, grapes have a lot going for them: as this site about…
Good morning! “An article on Tuesday about the sale of a house next door to President Obama’s home in Chicago misstated the name of a dog that lives there and misidentified her owners. She is Rosie, not Roxy, and she belongs to the tenants of the property’s carriage house — not to the owners of the property for sale, Bill and Jacky Grimshaw.”
I’m a little late to this one, but Jesus: MTV has an explanatory biography for all of those viewers who weren’t sure who the old dude who came out onstage Sunday at the VMAs with Katy Perry was. And now I guess it is time for me to catch my ice floe.
It’s a sacred right of the states, guaranteed by the Constitution, that at its whim it can put you down like a cat that scratches someone’s baby too many times. But some states can’t even handle that God-given responsibility! Like Ohio, which tried for two hours…
This article suggests that the Summer of Death™ is essentially a Boomer meditation on…
