Category: Silly Stuff

Have you ever been driving along, perfectly safe and carefully, only to have some loony-toonz driver almost hit you? Often, if visibility ought not to be a problem, you’ll wonder to yourself, in a very un-PC way, “What is that driver? Blind or something?” In at least one case, in

I’m basking in the love of a good dog right now, but if you’re not, and you either (a) miss having a dog around or (b) merely admire them from a distance, check this out.

Do you think electronic scanning at grocery stores has increased or decreased magazine sales?  In the pre-electronic age, when grocery stores had long lines, I used to read the magazines kept near check-out.  If what I was reading was interesting, and I wasn’t going to get a chance to finish

I never watched morning news shows and I stopped watching the network news about 20 years ago. All I know is what I read on the internet and in news magazines.  I have therefore been mercifully unaffected by the hoopla surrounding Katie Couric’s imminent ascendancy to the nightly news. This,

From Jay Leno, via Townhall: “British authorities said they were able to detect the terrorist plot using a surveillance program that the “New York Times” hadn’t got around to exposing yet.”

Did you know that I (probably) have royal blood in me. I can’t flaunt it too much, though, because you probably do too. Yup, according to the Washington Post, we’re all royal: Even without a documented connection to a notable forebear, experts say, the odds are virtually 100 percent that

I have an unhealthy passion for butter, a food that, unlike chocolate, can’t be passed off as a health food.  I limit my intake (hey, I’m not stupid), but I crave it.  So, I was much taken with a bit of butter art: Sculptor Sharon BuMann, of Central Square, N.Y.,

I got another email: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad calls President Bush and tells him, “George, I had a wonderful dream last night. I could see America, the whole beautiful country, and on each house I saw a banner.” “What did it say on the banners?” Bush asks. Mahmud replies, “ALLAH

Got another email: Bush Awards Gibson Presidential Medal of Freedom President: ‘Thanks for Taking the Heat off Me This Week’ In a stunning moment of redemption for the embattled actor Mel Gibson, President George W. Bush today awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, telling the star, “Thanks for taking

I got this in my email today: Subject: Breaking News: Gibson Converts to Judaism Gibson Converts to Judaism Changes Name to Mel Gibstein In his boldest bid yet to apologize to the Jewish community, actor Mel Gibson today announced that he had converted to Judaism. The news took many Jews

I missed the Loma Prieta quake because I was on vacation.  Throughout my life, I’ve been around for many smaller quakes, but I’ve managed not to notice any of them.  The most recent one I missed noticing was a small one, an hour ago, centered about twenty miles north of

Do you wear logo-wear?  By that I mean anything from a t-shirt that says “Drink Coca Cola” to a Mickey Mouse shirt or hat?  I don’t.  I’ve never figured out why I should pay to advertise someone else’s product.  It seems to be that, if the Coca Cola company wants

Whether you’re Hammurabi or W. S. Gilbert, you know that the punishment must fit the crime.  Check out this post to find out how to make a suitable punishment when you’re neighbor piggy-backs on your wireless. Hat tip:  Done With Mirrors