and now I’ve got three kids! DAMN YOU, KATY PERRY!!! Speaking of music, I can’t ever hear Tommy James’ “Draggin’ a Line” without superimposing the lyric, “Bangers and mash, mash, mash” over the baseline. Sociopath.

I wonder, wonder who, who-oo-ooh, who (Who screwed the Bag Of Douche?) Tell me, tell me, tell me Oh, who screwed the Bag Of Douche I’ve got to know the answer When he hung around looking louche (Oh, I wonder, wonder who, mmbadoo-ooh, who) (Who screwed the Bag Of Douche?) I love you darlin’ Baby, you know I do But I laugh to see this Bag of Douche The one

Some folks like to wrap holiday gifts using pages from the Sunday funnies. Me, I’m more a “thousands of jobs lost in December as economy collapses” / “town’s Christmas tree felled by lightning killing 9 orphans”-type guy. — You know, lend some emotional balance to the season and problematize that rampantly artificial good cheer with a healthy dose of thoughtfully juxtaposed irony. Happy holidays, everyone. Try not to cut off

Former FBI mole Larry Grathwohl responds–at PJM, because the NYT won’t publish it: I must conclude by acknowledging that in one respect Bill is probably being absolutely truthful. When he says that “I never killed or injured anyone,” he is most likely being totally honest. Bill, like Charles Manson, never exposed himself to any kind of danger. He always gave orders and then left it to his then-girlfriend, Diane Oughton,

On 5 November, the upmarket Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3 aired a discussion about overpopulation between Dr Susan Blackmore (a neuroscientist) and Professor John Gray (of the London School of Economics). Dr Blackmore said the “fundamental problem” facing the planet today is that “there are too many people”. Professor Gray agreed. Then Dr Blackmore declared: “For the planet’s sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that

Will Self on anti-antidisestablishmentarianism. But what’s the point of disestablishing the CoE?  Does it matter enough, anymore, to bother?  Self selflessly applauds the Archbishop’s condonation of sharia law.  I say so, because, were it to come about, Self’s authorship would disappear entirely.  Then again, suicide is the ultimate self-possession. Related: Daughter of famous author wants to make us go through Obama years sober.

Despite it all, it’s a pretty damned wonderful life: A few years later, we sold for a surprising profit and moved to a bigger house. Leverage, they call it – and we caught on fast – moving every few years to accommodate our growing family (eventually 12) and business, but also to maximize our investment. In some ways we lived modestly: Our most expensive car was a used 15-passenger van,

Recruiter suicides: Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson, a strapping Iraq combat veteran, spent the last, miserable months of his life as an Army recruiter, cold-calling dozens of people a day from his strip-mall office and sitting in strangers’ living rooms, trying to sign up their sons and daughters for an unpopular war. He put in 13-hour days, six days a week, often encountering abuse from young people or their parents.