You gotta be kiddin’ me!
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Aieee! My eyes!
If Brooks Brothers’ Spring Collection is to be believed, the Metrosexual* is back: What’s really scary is that I found Mr Pinky Pants in an ad on National Review Online! Who knew they swung that way? *that’s PC-speak for “ghey.” Read more
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Farookin’ oatmeal
Having no other worthy targets, NY Times foodie Mark Bittman blows the lid off McDonald’s oatmeal. Over 900 people with nothing better to do chime in with recipes, denuciations (of McDonald’s, Bittman, oatmeal, and each other), and the inevitable snob line “I only eat steel-cut oatmeal.” Give me a farookin’ break. It’s a goddamn bowl Read more
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Anybody got a sense of scale here?
30,000 pigs floating down the river in the recent Aussie floods? Didn’t that seem like…well…like a LOT of pigs? Sometimes quantitative literacy is really, really simple, if you just pay attention. Update (8 February). Maybe 30,000 isn’t too unreasonable a number! Read more
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“Kick me” Obama strikes again
Barack-O’s guest pianist played him for a chump. Can we swap him for some Chinese who don’t insult us to our faces? Update (25 January). Tommy Vietor, official White House Thumbsucking Doubletalker, explains to the hoi polloi that it was not an insult. Yeah, piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Too bad, Read more
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Uh, I left my homework in my other backpack…
…I left my wallet in my other pants…I left my birth certificate in the Hawaiian archive. We may have busted our budget, but the last presidential election has guaranteed the nation an inexhaustible supply of shuck and jive. No wonder some folks become “Birthers.” Read more
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Time to cut the federal budget, Exhibit #1
HHS ponied up $766,000 to open an IHOP in a tony DC neighborhood? Hope and Change, indeed. make your own poster here Tip from the Instapundit. Follow his link to a good summary about that corn likker they’re putting in your gasoline. Read more
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Oh dear, am I too minimalist?
Here’s a lady who has the very definition of a princess problem: “I was stressed that I was not up on Food Network enough to get the high-brow insider references.” I’d say you’re a bit far from total minimalism if you’re living on a farm with access to the Food Network. Rule of Thumb among Read more
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Supernova!
It’s gonna be hard for anyone to top this on their college admission application. Way to go, KG! Read more
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“We are the people we’ve been waiting for”
Some highly-compensated administrators in the University of California system haven’t internalized the President’s statement “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money…”. Now they’ve gone public, putting themselves on a new California Taxpayer’s $h!t List. To their credit, citizens and lawmakers in California are not amused. Tip from George Leef at Phi Read more
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