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October 19, 2005

because protein wisdom is watching the Cardinals-Astros game and eating chips, he decides to post something from his archives that he kinda likes, and that he suspects many people never read

Here. 

“World War II Airman Found Frozen in Glacier”

From KFSN-TV: It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn’t discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash. Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Sequoia National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing. It’s believed the

Forty-eighth in a series of real-time empirical observations

In the time it takes you to read this entry, FOXNews’ Shepard Smith—as a way to “psych himself up” for the promised devastation of Hurricane Wilma—will have prank called Michael Brown for the third time in as many hours, this time to ask “if his refrigerator is running” before casually reminding the former FEMA head that, “for tens of thousands of people, refrigeration doesn’t even matter any more, because they’re

Film reviews in five words or less, #30

Cheerleader Camp [aka Bloody Pom Poms] (1987) Directed by John Quinn.  Stars Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Travis McKenna, Lucinda Dickey, Lorie Griffin, and Teri Weigel Five words or less review:  Leif Garrett actually raps.  Ishityounot.

“Slouching Towards Miers”

Robert Bork, on the nomination of Harriet Miers—and Bush’s “conservatism”—in today’s WSJ “Opinion Journal”: With a single stroke—the nomination of Harriet Miers—the president has damaged the prospects for reform of a left-leaning and imperialistic Supreme Court, taken the heart out of a rising generation of constitutional scholars, and widened the fissures within the conservative movement […] There is, to say the least, a heavy presumption that Ms. Miers, though undoubtedly

Grieving Mom Cindy Sheehan and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss strategies for twenty-first century anti-war activism while ostensibly maintaining their commitments to fighting global terrorism, 10

“So… Now what?”* “Now we hang back and wait for the next peace movement. “—Speaking of which, did I mention that my hat just celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary of speaking Truth to Power?  The wife and I took it to Red Lobster for Shrimpfest—then afterwards, we let it get its freak on with this cute little Pueblo hooker David Crosby was kind enough to spring for.  Good times…!”