“For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband’s position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections,” Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying. “When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere,” Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system’s economic collapse. “Now

Due to the tearing up and reseeding of the front lawn, a colony of ants has been uprooted and is seeking vengeance by invading my house.  Bastards!  But (BUT!) mentally fortified by a few daquiris, I figured out how to beat the pismires.  I painted the foyer with marshmallow fluff! Quagmire!! You little f*ckers, I have 3 weeks to finish the script for the pilot to the Cannibal Pirate Midget

Whoever he is.  My Earthlink horoscope: Like a game of chess, you may need to think through your next move quite carefully, dear Aries [yeah, right]. It could be that your opponent is taking a long time to make his or her next move, and you are impatient. And as a result, you may make your decision rather hastily. Feel free to take as much time as you need. Your

Still, Venezuela’s government seems intent on taking harsh action against its critics. The government has announced that it has begun a legal fight against Globovision, a 24-hour news cable station that is the lone dissenting TV outlet in the country now that RCTV is only on the Internet. Globovision is providing highly critical coverage in the wake of the RCTV closing. Lara, the communications minister, said the government would investigate

The former East Germany is being drained of young women, leaving an underclass of disillusioned young men behind, a study says. Disillusioned is a strange way of putting it, but okay. What this new report by the Institute for Population and Development establishes, is that young women have been leaving in much greater numbers than young men – and that of the men who did leave, many returned. The result

Good Friday night fare, “Jeepster.” Don’t even think about trying to get it to sync. In case you haven’t considered the lyrics in any depth, here they are.

Not out of the woods, but on the mend: Dan, It’s possible I might get out tomorrow. I had felt that I wasn’t going to budge from this hospital until i was sealed up (not leaking, spewing or oozing…) no matter what. Now that my wounds are less active I am starting to get hospital scratchy. I think I would do better out than in. I still have way too

Q: How many fundamentalist Christians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Never more than 2.  And of course, only if they’re married. **** update:  Oh. And for Chrissakes, please restrict yourself to the traditional light bulb screwing position. We aren’t animals, after all.

For the cover story of its May 21 issue, the Weekly Standard featured a brilliant piece by self-styled “equity” feminist Christina Hoff Sommers in which the controversial author of Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys examines the feminist movement in the Muslim world, comparing and contrasting it with the feminist movement in the US (from its largely unacknowledged traditionalist roots to its current incarnation as propagator of dangerous

Mike, of Of Thee I Blog, who links here, is undertaking a visit to each of the capitals of the 48 contiguous states (with a couple of layovers for sightseeing).  If you happen to be on his itinerary, and your dead hobos are well secreted, you might wish to host him when he’s in the neighborhood. He’s welcome to visit me when he comes to Montpelier.* Makes my feet itch