Quick Hitts

Today is “Everybody Draw Mohamed Day,” a response to the evil imbeciles who insist their rights are being violated when anyone criticizes their idiotic superstitions, and who get upset, to the point of rioting, when anyone pictures their founding asshole. I thought of doing something obscene, but this should be fun, not cruel, so I […]

The details of the NYC Wannabomber reads like a Pink Panther script.  He created a Rube Goldberg bomb that had no chance of working, then cleverly left the keys to his getaway vehicle in the bomb car. Anyone reading this blog could have searched Google and in fifteen minutes collected dozens of different designs for […]

While discussing crackpots on Facebook a friend posted a video of someone claiming to be a Psychophysiologist. So I’ve decided to declare myself an expert by making up a silly but complicated name for my field of study. I’m a Nicotianastogieologist, specializing in herfpalaver. (Translation: I like smoking cigars with other talkative cigar smokers.) What’s […]

In February, acting on nothing more than a tip from an informant and the resulting eight-day-old search warrant, police raided a home in Missouri, shot both of the family’s dogs (cops love to shoot dogs), and roughed up the occupants.  They pointed guns at everyone, including a child, then arrested the man of the house. […]

It’s easy to feel superior reading stories of our ancestors buying worthless potions from snake oil salesmen.  But a stroll though the aisles of any warehouse style store proves that nothing much has changed.  Every other end cap features a small TV making a pitch for some magic pill or potion that’s long on hype […]

It’s Sunday night.  I’m tired and bored and sitting in a hotel room and I think, “Hey, I’ll watch an episode of “Justified.” First I went to Hulu.  There service is cool enough to put up with watching their commercials even though they tend to air extremely stupid ones (like Capital One) for extremely evil […]

Driving a U-Haul moving van is like getting a piggyback ride from Michael Moore. It’s bumpy, noisily, uncomfortable, pulls to the left, is difficult to maneuver, and has huge blind spots on both sides. I just spent the past two days piloting one of these POS so I feel qualified to offer the following advice. […]