Weirdness
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Weird Site
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Happy Halloween
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Rise of the Zombies
People and their free time
“What do we want? BRAINS! When do we want it? BRAINS! “Here’s a photo set of one rally.
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Words you don’t expect to ever see together
From Mark Steyn, who has an eye for vivid prose
If you’re going to be attacked, it’s best to be attacked by a relatively advanced enemy. Compared with being force-fed Grandfather Smurf’s genitals, having his village strafed in some clinical air strike is about the least worst option for Baby Smurf.
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Oddities
Strangely enough, my brother called me from the Millions More March today.
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Two things
- Bali protesters: Kill the bombers – an example of history moving in the right direction abroad. Evidently Bali is one of the few countries where radical Islam exists, but is actively not tolerated
- A major clash between the Russians and the fellow travelers of radical Islam, Chechen separatists, is not major news. Chewbacca becoming an American citizen does make it above the fold on CNN.com.
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That odd president of ours
Via the Agitator, this was in the Bush-Myers papers
Bush responded to her birthday wish in kind, and included a humorous, if baffling, postscript.“I appreciate your friendship and candor. Never hold back your sage advice,” he wrote. “P.S. No more public scatology.” Whether Bush was referring to Miers’ rough-and-tumble time as chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission or something else isn’t clear. Scatology refers to “the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity,” according to Webster’s dictionary. -
Two from Dreck
The first link is to a post containing a proposed national anthem
The Scotsman is mean, as we’re all well aware
And bony and blotchy and covered with hair
He eats salty porridge, he works all the day
And he hasn’t got bishops to show him the way!and
And crossing the Channel, one cannot say much
Of French and the Spanish, the Danish or Dutch
The Germans are German, the Russians are red,
And the Greeks and Italians eat garlic in bed!The Germans are German is a lovely insulting tautology.
And speaking of the Scots, this article Taller women are more career-driven – that’s the long and the short of it is well worth a read. I have no idea if it’s true or not, but any article that seems to use “homely” as a technical term must be interesting.
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Life’s weirder moments
Snake bursts after gobbling gator – “The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.”
Worthy of a comic book.
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Tuesday rapid fire
- S.F. mayor sees wireless service as basic right – Gavin Newsom is truly the most publicity-hungry mayor in America. A basic right? This makes me rather glad that we don’t have nationalized health care.
- Liquids per gallon – Hot Hooters Booby Oil is my favorite
- US finds fever bacteria during war protest weekend – This sees like it should be a bigger story.
- DOT frowns at U.S. 78 monitors – private industry stepping into help with a public problem, gets “frowned at” by government
- $100 Laptop – this could be really cool, if only it existed.