Archive for: November 2008

November 30, 2008

“I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera.” - Mumbai Mirror photog, who also laments the fact that armed police were cowards

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Nov 2008

This now-famous photo was taken by Sebastian D’Souza, a newspaper photog who witnessed the beginning of the carnage that left 195 people dead in Mumbai, India (previously known as Bombay). Only 10 gunmen participated in …

US TRP

Filed under: - 30 Nov 2008

November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Nov 2008

(Image of Barbara Eden and her erstwhile turkey snagged from Theo Spark)

Spengler on the Bailouts

Filed under: - 27 Nov 2008

Obama’s one-trick wizards By Spengler

“The cleverest people in the United States, the Ivy-pedigreed investment bankers, have fouled their own nests as well as their own net worth, and persuaded the taxpayers to bail them out. If …

November 26, 2008

On Black Widow spiders, and similar dangers

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Nov 2008

Dangerous. Really.  A perfect delivery mechanism for neurotoxins; those are never good things. In the old days of wooden outhouses, these critters would lurk right beneath the seats.


Thanksgiving favorites

Filed under: - 26 Nov 2008

Food keeps coming up in the threads as the holidays fast approach.

Post your recipes here for all to see. Share the eats. It’s that time of year.

To start things off this is the first dish my wife ever prepared for me.

November 25, 2008

Why Mormons?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Nov 2008

The targeting of Mormons by anti-prop8 activists thugs has caught the attention of the starboard-side commentariat of late.

Gerard van der Leun articulates the position that the LDS are easy targets because we don’t fight back so much.
Christian churches and …

How White* Are You?

Filed under: - 25 Nov 2008

A game for the holidays.

Go to this page, copy and paste the list into Notepad or the equivalent, then delete everything that you do not like.

Post the results for public scrutiny and ridicule, if you dare.

Be careful of #114: it doesn’t mean what you think it means. Click the item to see.

Oh, and which single item makes you 100% white, no matter what else you answered? You decide!

* Your actual subcutaneous pigmentation may vary.

November 24, 2008

Looking Out My Front Door, No. 3

Filed under: - 24 Nov 2008

We don’t need no steenking pavement:
Depaver 1

Ohnoes! There’s two of them!
Depaver 2

Regards,
Ric

UPDATE: happyfeet, we are going to get a new top surface for the streets, just the upper couple of …

November 23, 2008

Men are Evil! Avoid Them At All Costs!!!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Nov 2008

These ads appear on Dallas Area Regional Transit buses. They were placed there by The Family Place, a Dallas area domestic violence group.  Their logic:
We designed the campaign to reach women. Our counselors …

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