Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Oddball on Jun 25th, 2008
I guess there was a sale he didn’t want to miss:
MUNCIE, Ind. - A 7-year-old boy drove his grandmother’s car more than a mile to a shopping mall before another motorist blocked the car and took the keys, police said.
Several motorists called police around 9 a.m. Tuesday to report a small child driving toward Muncie [...]
Posted in Oddball on Jun 3rd, 2008
Somebody’s got a case of “the Mondays”!!!
Posted in Life in the Big City, Oddball on May 31st, 2008
Is it wrong that I feel a little schaedenfreude about this story?
I mean, it *is* Fox.
OTOH, I’m a little disturbed that there are now bedbugs in office buildings. I’m going to be paranoid about every itch I have at work now.
Posted in Oddball, The American Game on May 15th, 2008
But they never really came.
See why I hate nature?
Posted in Oddball on May 14th, 2008
Like the red plastic cup. A little summer story…
I had no idea cheerleading was such a dangerous sport.
I can’t see this leading to anything good.
But what the hell, why not? (h/t Rick.)
Posted in Oddball, Terra Terra Terra! on Mar 25th, 2008
Geeze, I think I would have had a heart attack:
DENVER (AP) — A gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane went off as the aircraft was on approach to land in North Carolina over the weekend, the first time a weapon issued under a federal program to arm pilots was fired, authorities [...]
Happiness is a warm gun.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Oddball, The Regime on Feb 29th, 2008
Not just in Washington, but throughout the United States.
In a lawsuit filed in January, former Prosper Inc. employee Chad Hudgens accused his former boss, Joshua Christopherson, of waterboarding him in May 2007 while instructing other employees to hold him down. Prosper does not dispute that the incident took place, but said it was voluntary and [...]
Posted in Oddball, The Body Electric on Feb 26th, 2008
Vegan strip club. Only in Portland. Sigh. Someday I’ll move there…
Posted in Oddball, Politics As Usual on Feb 17th, 2008
I know people make their voting choices for all kinds of strange reasons, but it’s still astounding that a relatively informed person would change their mind based on the “cool” factor (it’s not as if I like Obama, but this is bizarre). Matt Bai:
After Super Tuesday, I was surprised to find that a friend of [...]
Posted in Oddball, Politics As Usual on Feb 14th, 2008
Now, that’s a real Eagles fan.
Posted in Oddball on Feb 7th, 2008
It’s a Philadelphia thing:
Posted in Blogosphere, Oddball on Feb 1st, 2008
Oh darn. I thought I was an Influential!
Posted in Oddball on Jan 19th, 2008
Apparently Bush made hell freeze over. (h/t Emphyrio.)
Insert your joke here:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish bomb squad called out to disarm a suspicious package on Wednesday did not find a ticking bomb. But they did find a vibrating sex toy.
A janitor alerted police after he found the package in a garage of an apartment building in Goteborg, the country’s second-largest city, police [...]
I hate when that happens:
WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in [...]
Posted in Oddball on Jan 9th, 2008
For some reason, I just love this story:
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife “understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody,” said his defense lawyer, Henry [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Oddball on Nov 21st, 2007
See, now this looks like something I would have picked out of the trash, too. Like most former art students, I have an eye for quality.
Posted in Oddball on Nov 21st, 2007
Roll Call:
A Capitol Police officer has been suspended in connection with the series of restroom fires that broke out in Senate office buildings over the past three months.
Posted in Oddball, The Body Electric on Nov 20th, 2007
Interesting piece in today’s Times:
Nowhere do people use denial skills to greater effect than with a spouse or partner. In a series of studies, Sandra Murray of the University of Buffalo and John Holmes of the University of Waterloo in Ontario have shown that people often idealize their partners, overestimating their strengths and playing down [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Oddball on Jun 2nd, 2004
Did you see the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode where Larry David hired a hooker so he could take the carpool lane to the Dodgers game?
Melnik later learned that HBO had been at the stadium the night of the killing to tape an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” a self-deprecating comedy starring “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David. [...]
Posted in My So-Called Life, Oddball on Sep 23rd, 2003
Apropos of nothing (or maybe the repair bill I just got slammed with), I had a sudden urge to memorialize all the old cars I’ve ever owned:
1. 1963 VW Beetle, aqua. “The Little Darling.”2. 1966 VW Beetle, white. I did the body work and painted it. Stolen next day.3. 1966 Chevy van, tomato red.4. 1964 [...]
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