In the next day or so, you’re gonna hear a lot of talky-talky about the Vatican’s summer beach reading, “Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons.” Don’t let the title fool you; it is no steamy bodice ripper. What it is, however, is something that probably should be read in […]

A Bible that looks like a fashion magazine!
In focus groups, online polling, and one-on-one discussion, Extreme for Jesus has found that the number one reason teens don’t read the Bible is that it is “too big and freaky looking.” This fashion-magazine format for the New Testament is the perfect solution to that problem. Teen girls […]

Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee put a stop to a web site that was attempting to establish a terrorism “futures market” where people would basically bet on the likelihood of a terrorist attack. Kind of a Dead Pool for yourself. North Dakota’s Byron Dorgan rightly called it “unbelievably stupid.”
Well, thank goodness they put a […]

As “one of Saddam’s lifelong bodyguards,” Adnan Abdullah Abid al-Musslit was believed to have detailed knowledge of the former president’s hiding places, said Lt. Col. Steve Russell, who led the raid. He said documents taken from the home and information obtained from the men would be useful in the hunt for Saddam.
The stocky bodyguard struggled […]

The ice cream cone was not invented at the 1904 World’s Fair.
No, it was not either.
I have a copy of the patent right in front of me. Late 1890s, New York friggin’ City. St. Louis popularized it by exposing so many people to it at the Fair. They didn’t have internet marketing back then, you […]

Chillicothe, Missouri just celebrated the 75th anniversary of sliced bread.
When it made its debut in 1928, how was it advertised?
“Presenting: the Greatest Thing Since Wrapped Bread!”
I have not made this up.

The New York Times published an obituary for Bob Hope written by film critic Vincent Canby…
…who has himself been dead for many years. The Post is there.

I’m already at one.
In a turn of events that my more morbid friends have outright demanded since the deaths of Hepburn and Hackett, Bob Hope is no longer with us. The rule of threes is satisfied with alphabetic symmetry, and a decent guy who has been old since I was born finally gets his eternal […]

By request, I think I have made the “How-to for first timers” easier to understand and apply to life. I think.

Due to imaginary demand, a nearly two-and-a-half-year logjam has been broken and an actual journal entry has been posted.
More or less.
A few months ago, I wanted to start writing again but didn’t feel like I could until I came to terms with why I had stopped in the first place. One thing led to another, […]

Looks like Moore Action Collectibles has discontinued its Buffy and Angel action figure lines. Given the fact that Buffy is no longer a TV show, I can’t kvetch too much, but my inner dork was always happy to know that if I wanted to buy a 5″ tall sculpture of Emma Caulfield dressed as a […]

Okay, so now I’m hearing that only I can post on the home page and everyone else has to “comment.” My current “comment” about that is, “Bull shit, they can’t. That’s the whole point of having this site in the first place.” So, I will have to let you know.
I may have to just create […]

Here it is, the app that will finally make my dream of a fully functional web space a reality. (Except for the part of that dream where other people have to participate. Then again, even if I’m the only one who ever uses it, other people will appreciate it; instead of annoying everyone by forwarding […]