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With some shameful borrowing from around the blogosphere, plus some of mine own, here’s the list of New Year’s Resolutions for the entire American citizenry: Become intelligent-thinking during political campaigns so as not to be deceived by jingoistic and meaningless phrases such as "Compassionate Conservativism," "I’m an outsider," and "Mission Accomplished" Learn to distinguish between facts and opinions (including, "expert … Read More

Some college-age guys pull a fast one on their friend.  They TIVO the winning lottery numbers announcement from the week before.  They then buy  a lottery ticket for the next drawing with those old winning numbers.  On the day of the drawing, they tell a friend (the "victim") to come over, and — oh, yeah — buy a couple of … Read More

But don’t worry, moral evangelists.  Even though the dolphin’s name is Cindy, he’s a dude. And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water. Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and … Read More

I think the employees of Google have waaaaay too much time on their hands.

UFO Casebook’s Best UFO Photographs of 2005 Although Puerto Rico seemed to have a lot of sightings this year (or so it seems), the image at the right was taken in July in Modesto, California: I took this picture tonight at dusk. At around 8:50 I noticed some kind of craft toward my left that appeared from behind a tree … Read More

The hot Christmas present this year was, as expected, a Video iPod.  It looks like someone at Walmart in Hawaii knew this, and played a little prank: If you got a Video iPod for the holidays this year, you should be thanking your lucky stars it didn’t come from the Hawaiian Keeaumoku Wal-Wart. Rachel Cambra, a mom and an employee … Read More

There’s no point in trying to catch up with a world that keeps on spinning while you take the holidays to be with family.  However, had I been around, I would have liked to comment on a thing or two.  They are, in no particular order… (1)  Vincent Schiavelli (pictured left) died.  I always liked him.  A good character actor.  … Read More

From About.com: 25) "I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called." –Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, urging President Bush to make public Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s White House records, Oct. 5, 2005 (Source) (Read more stupid Dean quotes) 24) "If I would do another ‘Terminator’ … Read More

Stop me if you heard this one. No.  Don’t bother.  I’m gonna post it anyway.  This could be my last post for a while, except for my attempts to mobile-photoblog my car trip home for Christmas. Schizoprenia — Do You Hear What I Hear? Multiple Personality Disorder — We Three Queens Disoriented Are Dementia — I Think I’ll Be Home … Read More

"Chronic Happiness" Is The Key To Success, Researchers Say Okay, if you say so. Of course, "chronic happiness" is probably the definition of success.  That’s what I say.

Mark David Chapman (John Lennon’s assassin) and Karl Rove [H/T Wonkette]

I was a freshman at Tufts University on December 8, 1980.  It was a rather dreary day outside as I recall, although I also recall not going outside — I was in the midst of studying for finals.  My first college finals, in fact.  And because I was intimidated by the unknown, I was studying hard and diligently. At that … Read More

Someone snapped this amusing picture recently in New York: It’s not clear what’s going on and why, but it reminded me of this: Right?

New photos have emerged, reportedly showing Bigfoot.  They were snapped on Silver Star Mountain in Washington State. Take a look at the photo on the right (click on it to enlarge to a separate window).  This is an unretouched enlargement of one of the photos (all posted at this site). I can clearly make the outlines of a parka (the … Read More

Swine flu, African bees, avian flu . . . that’s bad enough.  But now we have to deal with communist killer squirrels? (Related thought: "Communist Killer Squirrels" would be a great name for a blog.)