Category Archive

Yesterday, the Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature adopted a recommendation that people who hold public office in Oregon should not work while intoxicated. Good idea.  Bold move. Duh.

Turns out that sheep are smarter than most people realize.

What’s the iPod digging today? Sandy – Grease Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In – The Fifth Dimension A Summer In Ohio – The Last Five Years Beast of Burden – Bettle Midler Don’t Worry Baby – Beach Boys Angry Young Man – Billy Joel Babooshka – Kate Bush Contact – Rent I’m Black/Ain’t Got No – Hair Running Up That Hill … Read More

Well, if you saw "Idol" tonight, I’m sure you can pick one Katharine moment, and one (if not two) Taylor moments.  Can you remember an Eliott moment?  Can you even remember what he sang? No.  And that’s why he’s going to be out this week. The second round of songs was the best.  I thought Katharine nailed her song ("Somewhere … Read More

Zoo visitors shocked as bear eats monkey: The park confirmed the killing. "The habitats here in the safari park are arranged in such a way that one animal almost never kills another…," it said in a statement. Nevertheless, they’re rethinking the zebra/lion compound. RELATED: Robotic spacecraft designed to rendezvous with orbitting satellite destroys satellite

This story is funnier when you see the video: A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC’s 24-hour news channel interview a taxi driver – in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney – a white, bearded technology expert – was astonished to see himself appear on screen as a black man with an apparent French … Read More

The Liberal Avenger is soliciting suggestions for the funniest deathbed "final words". My concern is that I’ll read them now, they’ll get stored in the recesses of my mind, and then when the time finally comes (decades from now, hopefully), I’ll blurt one of these things out.

Fifteen years ago, Steve Vaught of Oceanside, California accidentally killed two pedestrians in a car accident.  That sent him in a downward spiral of depression, and within three years, he had gained 150 pounds (taking his weight to 410). Last year on April 10, he decided he had to do something to turn his life around.  So he decided to … Read More

Dancing Queen – Mamma Mia! Broadway Cast Recording Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John with Billy Joel Prologue – Renaissance Undertow – Suzanne Vega Our Lips Are Sealed (a capella) – Tufts Jackson Jills Rock The Casbah – The Clash Get Closer – Seals & Crofts … Read More

HEY!  It’s bad enough we have to sing the National Anthem in Spanish — now the American calendar is going to be in Spanish?!? [/satire]

My birthday is months away, but still, please don’t get me any Playdoh-scented cologne. Other interesting colognes, shower gels, etc: White Russian, Glue, Dirt, Rye Bread, Sawdust and Waffles.

Soccer, more than any other sport, is an international sport known for (among other things) a high death toll among its riotous fans. That’s why I think that a planned soccer match between Muslim imams and Catholic priests — in Berlin (a city not unfamiliar with violence) no less — is a bad idea.

This opening graf hurts to read: CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — A man who spent 12 years in prison for murder before new DNA testing exonerated him last year was killed in a hit-and-run as he walked on the city’s South Side.

Haven’t done this in a while: Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel Luka – Suzanne Vega Mess Around – Ray Charles Taurus II – Mike Oldfield Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney It’s Too Late – Carole King Schadenfreude – Avenue Q What Child Is This – Vince Guaraldi The Wreck of the Edmund … Read More