The following exchange took place during today’s Bush press conference in the Rose Garden. THE PRESIDENT: Yes, Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on? PETER WALLSTEN OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES: I can take them off.…
Six minutes left in the match. I’m rooting for the Ticos. If they win or tie, everything in Costa Rica will stop and this song will be played. Update: Nevermind.
Zarqawi is dead. That’s great news. Such great news, in fact, that it’s worth remembering that the U.S. had multiple chances to kill Zarqawi before the invasion of Iraq. Why didn’t the U.S. kill Zarqawi before the war? Because the…
Keyboardist and composer Billy Preston has died. Preston is best known as the musician responsible for the delicious electric piano bits on “Get Back.” News of Preston’s death prompted me to rummage through my collection of Beatle bootlegs in search…
“Many people have accused me of baying for the buttocks of an innocent child,” -Nicholas K. Kaloki, a Kenyan school teacher who wants Kenya to re-legalize the use of caning as punishment in schools.
The following story arrives via andy2000.org’s Austin correspondent: I wonder if it’s the same person who wrote this headline. UPDATE: Yes, it’s a real shelter.
Raving Brands, the company brought us Moe’s and a variety of other shitty restaurants, has purchased Flying Biscuit.
The following letter comes to me from Dave Lopez, a “behavior coach” for the residents of a youth shelter at the YMCA in Sarasota, Florida. I believe that he is responding to this column. I particularly enjoy how I magically…
Jim McAuliffe of Lawrenceville thought he was being really clever when he came up with the idea of shipping bricks to Congress via UPS as a way of telling the bums in Washington that they should secure the border with…
