Two things intrigue the irreligious about religion — I mean, besides its content and the always-elevated ways it leads people to think and behave. The first is its ubiquity and the second is its persistence, which are so striking that some people have even proposed a gene for religious belief: something that strikes me as [...]
This is great for a Sunday morning. Slow motion video of kids tasting various foods for the very first time. The olive girl manages something I was never able to do; overcome the sensation that olives taste basically like ear-wax. She makes breaking through that barrier look really worthwhile, but I’ve never been able to [...]
Seen on the Grand Union Canal yesterday. (Now Squirrel has recovered from the small disaster on Friday, I took my kayak out: something I’d been determined to do before the op, and yesterday was what looked as though it was going to be the last nice warm sunny day we’re going to have for [...]
There’s not much in this old life, this vale of tears, that I truly understand, but some things are utterly mystifying. Such as a few glaring omissions in the list of things Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife purchased with stolen campaign money. According to the NY Times: On at least two instances, Mr. Jackson [...]
May as well get this over with, I suppose. Remember back in February, when the GOP primary clown car was careening from coast to coast? No, me neither. But anyway there was a comment thread back then about the obsessive madness some of the candidates (yeah, Santorum, here’s looking at you, kid) were displaying about [...]
Those of you without enough sense to already live in them, that is. As someone who lived on the Gulf Coast of Texas for many years, I have developed a kind of morbid fascination with hurricanes, and so have been casting around the ‘net for information about Sandy, the one now bearing down on the [...]
As we lurch forward through the election season with the outcome locked in, and I’m being as kind as I can, to either annoying mediocrity or depressing lunacy, let’s pause for a short video with a happy ending. This young woman has her heart in the right place, and courage to spare. Bear cubs can [...]
This made me laugh. As reported in the Lancashire Post, some free-market friction broke out between Mr. Whippy and Mr. Yummy when one or the other, it’s not clear which, was offering to undercut the others prices; “One was offering four, two scoop cones with a flake for £2 and the other said he would [...]
…maybe Willard should hire the folks who dreamed this one up. It’s pretty damn funny I gotta say.
Not only does it exist, but in duplicated form it occupies wall space above godknows how many sofas in the US at this very moment. The originator of this image, one Thomas Kinkade, died on Friday, and may he rest in peace. If I start writing about what this situation, and the above example of [...]