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I won’t Call Him Shirley.

Damn.  Leslie Nielsen dead at 84, visited by the old person’s friend. I won’t call you Shirley but I will call you one hell of a lot of laughs. Who can forget him looking up the ladder (and upskirt) at Priscilla Presley and uttering the famous words “Nice Beaver!” And her, pulling down a real [...]

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Genetically Enhanced.

Nothing new to write about but I ran across this article I had open in my browser but didn’t get around to reading. Happy Genetically Modified Thanksgiving. And The Comments. I had some European friends who went on and on about GM foods and the evils therein.  What was not apparent to me was just [...]

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And then, I blew up.

“Just another bite,” I thought aloud to myself for the benefit of my family. Surely finishing what was before me was the best honor I could give in thanks for everything those before me have allowed me to have… But… the body cried out… it screamed “Foul!  Foul, that which once nourished now overwhelms and [...]

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Historically speaking…

Historically speaking, talk of this sort always leads to control of a population.  Total control. Best we nip this in the bud right now. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. “[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to [...]

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How the Mighty have Fallen.

Update #2:  How come, if the diaper bomber incident last Christmas plays such a huge part in the latest Gropefest Security Theater exercise, it took eleven months to suddenly decide that we need to feel up everyone who isn’t a president or a congress-critter? You’d think if it was so critical to safety they would [...]

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Look, I know bullsh*t when I smell it, ok?

Little late in getting this out.  Ok, days late.  So sorry. Update: “Driving is much more dangerous than flying, as you are far more likely to be killed in an automobile accident mile-for-mile than you are in an airplane,” said Horwitz. “The result will be that the new TSA procedures will kill more Americans on [...]

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This Wasn’t in the Script.

We had a meeting today with Frankenboy’s teacher and other folks, basically a team of six people altogether.  Specialists in multiple fields of specialization. It’s one thing to suspect something about your kid, even strongly suspect, but it’s another thing entirely to get an official diagnosis of autism. I have no idea what this means.  [...]

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It Piles Up.

It started innocently enough. I tore a thumbnail below the level of the skin today, meaning there’s just no good way to trim it back because fingernail clippers can’t go beyond where the underside of the nail connects up with the skin.  Anyone with fingernails knows this.  So, how does one fix this? Bright Idea [...]

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Can They Pay You Enough?

Police: Woman Tried to Assault Cop With Sex Toy Headlines like this always promise a story that, face it, will be a bit… odd. Police say a dine-and-dash turned into assault charges for an Illinois woman who allegedly walked out on her bill at a restaurant and then attempted to strike a cop with a [...]

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Who Knew Seal Clubbing Could be So Much Fun?

Update:  Below I have updated the nasty spiteful and soulless graphic I first did (the B&W one).  I have since added some festive glow bracelets and splashes of color **** It’s quick, it’s dirty, it’s not done yet.  But here’s the work in progress.  I don’t like it, I must confess.  It lacks in many [...]

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When what you want coincides with what you need…

Update: You know you’re old when you finally – after hours of searching – find the old CBS station bumper music and it takes you back to the early/mid 70′s.  And you think of Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk (Friday nights) and how James Garner in The Rockford Files (Saturday nights, I think) was [...]

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How could it be bad?

I can see an over-enthusiastic diner needing stitches in their lip from shoveling pizza into their face. **** Turducken rears it’s fowl head again – ’tis the season.  The only way it could be better is if it were wrapped in bacon and cooked inside of a pig.

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