If, in a a pinch, you find yourself snowed in without either a snow shovel or the on-hand scratch to pay the two thirteen-year-old neighbor kids to do the heavy lifting for you (aside to “Billy” and “Zach”:  if you’re going to start a business in today’s market, you really need to accept major credit cards), a conspiratorial look followed by the whispered offer of a stick of vanilla incense,

A day earlier than usual, but here it is anyway. “I think he’s going to mention the you know whats…”

Danny Rolling was executed last night. Most of us living in Florida will remember his murderous spree 16 years ago. He sang a song as his last statement so I thought I would sing one just for him. to the tune of rawhide. Rolling, rolling, rolling keep the poison flowing hell is where you’re going, Danny Harold Rolling has died! Posted by sherlock from bakerstreet.

Let this be a lesson to you: Gluttonous stars trapped inside star clusters Stars fattened by stealing matter from their neighbours get trapped in the centre of the star clusters they dwell in, Hubble Space Telescope images reveal. A new study of the images also suggests that any black holes contained in these clusters must be relatively small. Massive groupings of stars called globular clusters behave like cosmic sorting machines.

Having read the Podhoretz piece on the Borat film, soon to be released, I made the mistake of expressing my enthusiasm to see the movie, and a commenter set me right: Borat’s been around for several years.  Now every American-Idol watching idiot in sticksville is going to have a Borat t-shirt and what was once funny will be lame. Posted by Pfc. Leftard | permalink on 10/25 at 07:37 PM

Ford Jr:  “Party?  Sure, I’m in.  Just make sure you load up the guest list with plenty of polished, phat lug nuts who enjoy a little hot tub play.  Otherwise, I may as well just save some time and have my service send over some coke and a couple of hex nuts for half an hour.”

Are you looking forward to seeing the Borat movie?  I am, especially after reading Podhoretz’s column.  Here’s the part that’s available for public viewing at TWS: The ‘Borat’ Show The man who would be Kazakhstan’s man of the moment. by John Podhoretz 10/21/2006 12:06:00 AM, Volume 012, Issue 07 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Directed by Larry Charles A cheap-looking and extremely strange

An absolute bombshell from EUReferendum: There has been a French parliamentary inquiry, which – predictably – cleared its own government. But now a former senior Rwandan diplomat has told a tribunal in his own country that France played an active role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Rwanda, where the victims begged the UN peacekeepers to kill them before the Hutus got to them. Oh, wait, this was the UN. This was

I like articles like this because I’m a sadist, probably.  Or a masochist, maybe.  Or maybe I just vacillate between these two subject positions so quickly that it looks like one of those spinning cartoon fights with the stars and exclamation points coming out of it, if you’d add a few hearts here and there. Anyway, there’s an article here on the crappiest digital cameras evah! You can use this

Captain Ed points us to this story about the Al-Quds day celebration thrown by Iran and its President Ahmablahblahblah: The celebrations included proclamations by the country’s leaders and activities for university students and artists. Isfahan University’s Mechanical Energy College took first place in a Quds Day competition for its design of a pilotless plane that can be used for “suicide attacks.” The director of the Iranian Broadcasting Organization of Music