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2:31 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
I mean, I guess it's good that they're recycling all that metal, but I don't know about this..... [++link]
12:42 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
What we have here is a goatfucker. Take a long look at that face. The face of a man who fucked an innocent goat. Goat. Fucker. [++link]
12:24 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Kraut Goth Mickey und Mallory Update: 15 and 13 years in a secure facility, respectively. Apparently the "just following orders from Satan" defense is still failing to melt German hearts. (Hier auf Deutsch.) [++link]
12:02 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The nice boffins at New Scientist have released an open-source news article about expanding the open-source philosophy beyond software. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the copyleft license. It's very textual postmod, actually, but I can see it degenerating into a massively multiplayer Stallman v. Torvalds nerd bickerfest... [++link]
11:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
"These tablets can be used to combat the after-effects of curries and other antisocial food." [++link]
11:24 AM ++ posted by Maggie ++
I always have trouble choosing a new password (my indian name being "Paralyzed By Indecision"). This won't make things any easier. [++link]
11:17 AM ++ posted by Maggie ++
How can we let this senseless carnage continue? [++link]
7:00 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Upon consideration, perhaps I was hasty in matchmaking Harry and Jenna. There plenty of worthy candidates among the Bush progeny, it seems. [++link]
6:51 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
This organization took out an ad in today's Washington Post. For the record, the governor of Texas was down. The governor of Florida was not. Nothing more need be said, you're all clever people who can make up your own punchlines. [++link]
1:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Tiny gay laughingstock/actor Tom Cruise is in Germany, pestering for official recognition of his money-grubbing joke sci-fi cult as a religion. You can fault the Germans for a number of things, but refusing tax breaks to lawsuit-happy guru cons ain't one of them. [++link]
1:23 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Slobo is still trying to have a Manson Trial. I don't know how this is playing in Europe, but I know as far as the US is concerned, if he should fall down a flight stairs somewhere in the Hague basement and break his fat neck in three places, we'd all be able to move on. [++link]
1:11 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
I'm sure this guy has had an epiphany of sorts and decided to be a better father to his kids and quit his soul-destroying, exploitative job. [++link]
12:42 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
LiveJournal Emulator Strikes Again: It's 72 degrees outside. I took my filthy car to the carwash, which got most of the birdshit and road dirt off. Then I spent half an hour or so in the parking lot with the swiffer wipes and paper towels and Windex doing touch up and interior tidying stuff. While wearing shorts. I broke a sweat.
Yesterday I picked up my sister from work and she started the whole This is January? It's 65 degrees out for Pete's sake! rant, and I gave her a calm but concerned look, and said (slowly), "Sis, it's May. Are you sure you're feeling okay?"
She didn't fall for it, but there was a picosecond there where I was obviously making more sense than she was.
[++link]
8:47 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
In other national news: poorly trained dog handlers, a dude named "Cornfed," and allegations of bestiality. Next on Jerry Springer? Wrong. [++link]
11:47 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
And now, our Attorney General and a right tit. [++link]
4:31 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
When I first saw this, Benazir Bhutto was no problem. Now, it seems to be obsessed with Debra Messing. Go ahead, stump the automaton! [++link]
3:02 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
Waste brain cells when you're not killing them. [++link]
2:30 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
I was never into video games, but this still makes me laugh. [++link]
2:17 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The thing the Christian church is best at is co-opting local customs and beliefs in order to create converts. This is why we have the story of the wise men and the star (borrowed from the Mithraites) and the resurrection (borrowed from every nature cult on earth). So, while the upcoming gender-neutral bible will no doubt send some eyes rolling, no one should actually be suprised. [++link]
11:29 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The Wheatsheaf Menu
+ Confit leg of squirrel wrapped in Parma ham on a potato salad
+ Squirrel and wild mushroom ravioli on a bed of spinach
+ Squirrel and foie gras torte with leek and dauphinoise potatoes
+ Whole squirrel casserole stuffed with garlic, creamed potatoes and onion gravy
+ Stuffed leg of squirrel with herb risotto and mustard jus
[++link]
6:15 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
You have not wasted time at work until you have wasted it playing Word Twist. You are warned. [++link]
5:40 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Oxford student Chelsea Clinton is apparently the toast of London. This is only fair, I think. She deserves to have some fun in life, and that would be tough anywhere in the US, where her embarassing parents still loom large. [++link]
5:29 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
HH the Dalai Lama is ill. If there's anyone in this world who is rationally not concerned about death, it's HH, but I would consider it a personal favor if all of you could raise a glass to his health and well-being. [++link]
10:57 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Queen Elizabeth II has owned more than 30 corgi dogs since 1944 when she was given her first, Susan, as an 18th birthday present. The average Corgi is cute at a minimum distance of three feet, but they tend to be owned by nasty old women who neglect to train them not to snap. I am informed that being bitten by a corgi is a common rite of passage for children in the UK. [++link]
10:45 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Ali G, who hasn't crossed over to the US because he isn't funny out of context, has a single out. I think it's funny. So there. [++link]
2:08 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
GRRRRRR!!! sniff? sniff... sniff sniff sniff SNIFF!!! RRRAAAAARRRRR!!!! (aaahhhhh...) [++link]
12:18 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The Six Degrees of Separation concept has roots in actual scientific study, which I did not know. Best of all, the experiments were performed by Stanley "The Experiment Must Continue" Milgram, the cowboy behind Obedience to Authority. [++link]
11:56 AM ++ posted by Maggie ++
[++link]
What Video Game Character Are You?
7:47 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Invader Zim Petition! Invader Zim Petition! Invader Zim Petition! Invader Zim Petition! [++link]
6:29 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Oh for God's sake. Now that they don't have the Taliban or Mumia to wet themselves over, a new cause emerges among Left Coast trendoid pinheads. [++link]
6:23 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Polly wanna 'zac snack. [++link]
6:22 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Since Will has exercised his editorial droit de signeur on the Somalia movie story, your humble Foreign Affairs Desk Chief gets stuck with stuff like this:
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
[++link]
1:02 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
"Employees didn't know all the facts about Enron. My own mother-in-law bought stock last summer and it's not worth anything now," Mr Bush said. "A lot of the stockholders didn't know all of the facts. And that's wrong." So is laughing, but I can't stop. [++link]
12:54 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
And here are the answers to the King William's College Quiz (see way below, or click here). I got four right; the average is three. I figure since I'm not British and therefore was working with a cultural handicap, that means I'm smart or something. [++link]
10:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Black Hawk Down looks to be a big hit in Somalia, since they seem to think it shows them winning, which they will do again if we dare fuck with them. No, no, no: We tried to help you, and you convinced us you didn't want help, so we took our bats and balls and went home, leaving you to enjoy starving in your demented tribal kleptocracy. And we got a 10:1 kill ratio on you, which sounds like you losing anyway. And, I hate to say this, but if we hit you again, there will be no pretense of it being a "humanitarian mission", and the rules of engagement are not going to favor you. Enjoy your crappy movie, fellas. [++link]
9:31 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Look at that face. Irrespective of anything he may be guilty of in the greater scheme of things, doesn't that look on his face make you just want to bitch-slap him one way and pimp-slap him the other? [++link]
6:48 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
Why don't more people understand this? When did we turn into Playboy Nation, where women serve at the pleasure of men who aren't even expected to have any sense of honor or responsibility towards them? Who said we would have to trade in respectful treatment to get equal rights and opportunities? We have our own type of fundamentalist oppression going on in the West, and it involves valuing women for their looks above all else, and making sure that they remember that they are as disposable as the pages of the Victoria's Secret catalog.
You haven't come a long way, baby, after all.
[++link]
1:52 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Burning Questions: (1) Have you ever read a news item about McDonalds that didn't manage to make your head spin like an centrifuge? (2) Why, why in the name of all that's holy does McDonalds give a shit about selling burgers in France? (3) How did a guy named Donald Daft get to be CEO of Coca Cola ? [++link]
12:11 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
If, like me, you were wondering just what was going to happen to the mountains of obselete currency created by the Euro changeover, (a) lay off the coffee and get outside more often, and (b) here's your answer. [++link]
12:02 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
My old drummer's band is called Burning Airlines, which is funny because it's a Brian Eno reference and he hated Eno back in the day. The ref is a song called "Burning Airlines Gives You So Much More", off Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). Which is a ref from a Maoist state propaganda opera, which I didn't know and am now compelled to share. [++link]
11:40 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The Italian neo-fascists apparently have a longtime Tolkien obsession. [++link]
1:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Happy MLK day, especially those of you checking in from work. [++link]
12:22 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Fox TV is not renewing The Tick, but I note that Temptation Island is rolling right along. Invader Zim has been cancelled, but not Butt Ugly Martians. Not fair, but at least they are finally euthanizing the fucking X Files. [++link]
10:58 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Deep in a mineshaft in Manitoba, vile Canuck socialists are growing tons of marihuana ("The H is for Health!"™). It's all perfectly legit, of course, since medically prescribed puff is legal in Canada. So why grow it in some Dr. Evil underground megabunker? I suspect our northern neighbors just have NORAD envy... [++link]
12:46 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Ave atque Good Riddance. [++link]
12:44 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Oooooh, the irony made my brain pop. [++link]
12:42 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Crank up the zydeco! It's Creole Heritage Day! Snort some cayenne, snarf some crawdads, slurp up some cafe-au-lait and beignets. Or if you're a lazy twerp like me who doesn't want to battle Bethesda, MD parking on a Saturday night, forgo the bounties of Louisiana Express and settle for Popeye's. [++link]
12:30 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
I was a Mugs of Very Little Brain so I didn't get around to posting this until today... Yesterday was Pooh Day! Hooray for Pooh Day! Go look for a Heffalump, or bounce a buddy. Or eat a boatload of honey and get stuck in your pal's doorway. Hooray! [++link]
1:23 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Episode Two of the Apocamon is up. There's a bit of a Spaceballs issue here, since Pokemon jokes are well past their sell-by, but still. If you like your eschatological humor a bit more timeless, fire up the Combinatorial Engine and mixmaster the Revelation of St. John the Divine with Alice in Wonderland. [++link]
1:13 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
One simple reason why I am against the death penalty. [++link]
2:47 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
On a more pleasant note, there will be 12 new Wallace & Gromit shorts this year. There seems to be some kind of internet/CD-ROM/easter egg hunt wingding involved in this, but I doubt that can spoil the fun. [++link]
1:27 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
This is not an Onion article. [++link]
12:08 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Grumpy suburban goths of America: be glad your moms don't read the international news. (Hier auf Deutsch) [++link]
12:00 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
When creating art, many take both inspiration and raw materials from their surroundings. In Mozambique, for example, this dual role is fulfilled by the Kalashnikov automatic rifle. [++link]
9:32 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Work with me on this. According to OZ cast member Dean Winters, Barry Scheck, O.J.'s lawyer, has an organization (Project Innocence) for death row inmates who can't afford to go through the new DNA testing, which is clearing all manner of wrongly convicted prisoners. The irony is that O.J. walked because the jury was too stupid to understand that the DNA evidence in that case proved his guilt flat out. Is this Barry Scheck trying to balance his karma, or is this just pure damnable chutzpah? [++link]
1:31 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
LiveJournal Emulator Strikes Again:
Like Eddie, I am far too Blokey to be a tranny, but look good in eyeliner and lipstick. (Je suis un travesty d'accion.)
[++link]
11:07 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Noise, noise, noise, shootin' smack, fucking up, fucking up, gettin' cuffed, goin' ta jail, oh shit... [++link]
11:01 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The Onion is back, by the way. You don't have to read Savage Love on the Stranger site anymore. [++link]
10:42 AM ++ posted by Mugs ++
The Wedding Singer was actually a very funny 80's retro movie. (I say this as someone who, if offered a choice between an hour in a locked room with Osama bin Ladin and a rusty knife and an hour in a locked room with Adam Sandler and a bat, would have a lot of thinking to do.) But it is not enough to sustain a sitcom. The 80's just weren't that damn funny. Please, I'm begging you, make it stop... [++link]
8:47 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Proofreaders, annoying as they may be, are your friends. [++link]
7:23 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
I grew up listening to Damian Einstein, back in the day when we had an indie station in DC. This was back when the seas still boiled, before the Robots From the Enemy Planet figured out that no one in the radio biz knew anything about money and suddenly six guys who hated music ran every station in the US. Damian didn't have the most bizarre voice on the airwaves, either, in spite of his sounding like the Elephant Man on 'ludes. That honor would have gone to his WHFS stablemate Jonathan "Weasel" Gilbert, who sounded like a happy little cartoon bandsaw. [++link]
12:23 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
I've driven across Idaho twice, once through the northern panhandle, which takes about an hour, and once through the big-ass southern part, which I guess is the pan. The southern part took a long time to get through, but it was a great drive. Lots of greenery and glassy lakes, not the usual endless corn and flat dead nada nada nada that you are sick to death of by the second day of any serious cross-country drive in the US. And I didn't see a single potato on either drive, so there went that preconception as well. Still, it is best to bear in mind that they do things their own damn way in Idaho. [++link]
11:10 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
I know gamers who can cook. I know gamers who like their carrot cake. And I know gamers, so I shouldn't be suprised by Carrot Cake Soup. [++link]
4:10 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Someone check me on this, but I'm pretty sure that mandel means almond in German and Yiddish. [++link]
3:33 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
The Dandy Highwayman has struck again! [++link]
1:24 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Your humble Foreign Affairs Desk Chief, however, sees a different angle on the story...I hereby call for a return to the days of marriage-bed diplomacy. Harry and Jenna would be a darling couple, and we and the Brits could put that whole 1776 unpleasantness behind us once and for all. Can't you see it? "Harry and Jenna, sitting in a tree, b-o-o-z-i-n-g..."
Please, just don't ask me to contemplate the feathered thong business.
[++link]
12:31 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Poor kid. I mean, it's hard to feel entirely sorry for a member of the royal family, but then again when we fucked up at age 17, we weren't facing a lifetime of being called Harry Pothead in the daily tabloids. [++link]
12:12 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Whoever's in charge, please, I'm begging you: Cover news like this up. Not that it wouldn't have been hilarious in August, but that was then. [++link]
3:42 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Forgive me, for I am plagiarizing straight from memepool...but it was too good - and too close to my own twisted little heart: "Your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandwhoever came off the
3:30 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
As if the thought of N'Sync thrust into the oblivion of deep space weren't enough to warm your heart, add in this: dumped on the cutting room floor. <--- That link might take a while to load. (Fucking MSN.) [++link]
1:01 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
As a gesture of sympathy for the 9/11 attacks, Tibetan monks are creating a sand mandala on the floor of the Sackler gallery. Thanks very much. People will note that the Tibetans don't hate us, even though we suck up to the genocidal Chinese who are destroying them. [++link]
11:02 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
No more hairspray for Swiss cheese cow. [++link]
5:17 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Everybody step right up for Budweiser's snicker-inducing mid-life crisis. Requires Flash, of fucking course. [++link]
4:32 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
No, no, not a WarBlog. BlogWars. (Warning: Dead Mice.) [++link]
3:40 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
David Lynch gets some news that's just as swell as can be. [++link]
4:19 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Esquivel es muerto. May his Valhalla be a swanky one. [++link]
1:07 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Robert Redford has said he will never get plastic surgery. Me neither, dude. My looks held out through my mid-20s, which is all I could have reasonably asked for, given my genes and habits. Mind you, Bob can go around with a mug that looks like Yogi Berra's catcher's mitt with eyes and teeth and he'll still get everything he wants in life because he is hugely rich and powerful already. [++link]
10:21 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Our neighbors to the north (Canada) probably don't have a lot of tobacco farms, correct me if I'm wrong. And they have socialized medicine. So they have these and we just will not, ever. Try Ebay if you want to start collecting them. [++link]
9:54 AM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
Hey, people, cheer up! At least your home wasn't destroyed by asteroids. But hey, speaking of asteroids, that Missle Defense Program sure sounds like a good idea, don't it? You know that every day we go without the technology to detonate 'em from space, them gol-durn space rocks are planning their attack. I love how this article on how an asteroid "barely missed Earth," [yeah, whatever, twice as far away as the moon is far enough away for me] immediately cuts to a commercial for the DoD. What's even more idiotic are the results of the [yes, I know] MSN poll next to the article. 30% of the 96,000 toolbelts that replied to the thing insist that "Something needs to be done! Now!" Yeah, I can see it so clearly... DATELINE Friday: Asteroids -- Terror from Deep Space.
Please give me drugs now.
[++link]
5:14 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Because failing to challenge our assumptions regarding established facts or "common-sense" knowledge can lead to serious errors in advanced research, the importance of funding basic research cannot be overstated. Oh wait, yes it can. [++link]
10:37 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
8:54 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
No, he wasn't a terrorist. He was a 15-year-old with fucked wiring and zits. [++link]
8:38 PM ++ posted by Anonymous ++
If, like many of us here at Enormous Fun, you have resolved to lose weight in 2002, let the Lord help you. [++link]
1:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Project Monica Update: Catch 2002. [++link]
1:46 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Happy Birthday to Prof Hawking, who has survived 38 years with a disease that most often kills in less than two years. Stevo also does some tricky math thing that he hopes to figure out the whole universe with, but I don't understand a fucking word of it and neither do you. [++link]
11:50 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Historically the Most Difficult and Irritating Trivia Quiz Ever (answers will likely be published week of January 15). [++link]
11:02 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Yoko Ono's solo work does get positive reviews. And they look a little something like this. [++link]
10:58 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
McDonalds has come under fire from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society over the design of the lids for the McFlurry dessert. You heard me, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. No, it isn't a Kinks tribute band. [++link]
3:45 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
And while we're carping about the comics page, much respect to Liberty Meadows' Frank Cho for choosing to take his talents elsewhere. [++link]
3:19 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
"The broad scenario of the strip is cheerfully woeful - classically absurdist, in the manner of playwrights Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. In its bleaker moments it is deeply rooted in the immortal universals of human anxiety, the heart of angst. At those points, there is rich kinship with the darker works of Franz Kafka and the less cheerful chapters of the Book of Job." Yes, Zippy the Pinhead has been dropped from the SF Chronicle. Zippy seems to get cut every time a paper does a "we want more room for ads, so pick the strips you won't miss" survey, since the only respondents are the sort of melted-down shut-ins who read Apt. 3-G. And then there's gnashing of teeth and lots of blithering overpraise like the preceding, and Zippy is reinstated. And everyone's strip gets a bit smaller... [++link]
11:46 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Fussy little goon Terry Nichols will be tried again at the state level for his role in the OK City bombings. This is taking thoroughness to a new level, since under his current sentence he is never going to leave prison a free man, not if he lives to the next millenium. I approve of the new trial, however, since it will keep him too busy to get his jailhouse memoir written. [++link]
5:33 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Okay, my friends, which is more pathetic: the guy who does this for a hobby, or Your Friend and Humble Correspondent Who Just Spent 20 Minutes Browsing This Guy's Page? That does it, no more cough syrup for me. [++link]
12:28 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
(I keep hearing this bit paraphrased or treated as a proverb, e.g. "bad poets borrow; great poets steal", and having run across it reasonably complete and with attribution, I was compelled to cut & paste it here.)
"One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
--T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). "Philip Massinger"
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1922.
[++link]
11:09 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
New agitprop leaflets show Osama photoshopped as Peter Sellers. I'm assuming the text looks like crap because the leaflets actually being dropped are in Pashto, not English. [++link]
2:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
LiveJournal Emulator II:
12:01 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
LiveJournal Emulator: I went to the $3 second-run theatre the other night to see Waking Life, which was a bit like a loooong stoned cartoon version of Tyler's monologues in Fight Club (that's not entirely a criticism). Walking past the posters to the box office, I notice that they are showing both Shallow Hal and Fat Girl. [++link]
6:58 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
C'mon, seriously, this is the best we could do? [++link]
6:46 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Biography as
haiku joins everyday news,
then, a book deal, natch.
[++link]
6:37 PM ++ posted by Mugs ++
Ave atque Vale corner: R.I.P. to one of Mount Holyoke College's more infamous daughters. Raise a glass and watch a classic tonight. [++link]
5:18 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
"Those black holes, those were the arms," he says. "And the doves are gone. The white doves used to come here, but now there is only one. Maybe we will see it today." [++link]
2:24 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
You take a great risk being loyal to the Clintons. [++link]
12:38 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
There is a grass-roots movement afoot to change the name of Volgagrad back to Stalingrad, ostensibly to honor the dead of the WWII Battle of Stalingrad, widely considered to be the climax of the war against Hitler. I question this rationale, since the city currently has the largest freestanding statue on earth as a monument to those fallen. They may have yanked down most of the statues of Uncle Joe himself, but the cult of Stalin holds out. [++link]
11:58 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
There's a new bio-pic out about Ron Jeremy, who according to several of my friends who have met him is a very likeable dude. I'm not suprised. Most guys would probably be pretty relaxed if they'd had sex with enough women to fill the visitors section at Yankee Stadium. [++link]
11:01 AM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Happy Birthday to John Thaw, who is 60. Public TV regulars will know him as Inspector Morse, though he is best remembered in the UK as DI Jack Regan in The Sweeney, which was sort of a 70s brit version of NYPD Blue. [++link]
12:51 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
Brainscans reveal the mechanism by which sugar pill placebos relieve depression. In other words, I could be taking Smarties instead of St. John's Wort if only I could hide the truth from myself. (Then again, if I was capable of consciously hiding truths from myself, I could go to Hollywood and be a Scientologist.) [++link]
10:32 PM ++ posted by Uncle William ++
A great deal has been asked of us as a nation in recent months, and we have delivered. Perhaps our greatest feat has been pretending that our president is not a mentally subnormal frat legacy. Our British allies, however, appear to feel no obligation to give him a pass on his obvious shortcomings. [++link]
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