so i've felt like shit the last few days.  that's no good, specially because i have to fly to virginia tomorrow morning. was chatting with one of the guys at work.  in the blank he said "bong" but i heard "bomb."  really changes the tone of the conversation... "so when i worked at the hardware st...

[Courtesy of Grantland Cartoons] There's something about an annoying co-worker that's like a Medieval form of torture. Unlike the persistent whistler in a department store, or the airline passenger seated next to you who insists on smacking her watermelon-scented bubblegum all the way from N...

by Elio The southern end of the volcanic Kol- beinsey Ridge with its isolated seamounts perched on the Mid-Atlantic ridge north of Iceland. Source. We don't know about you, but we've become pretty blase about the stream of papers, each with the customary two dozen or more authors, reporting the comp...

9:30 p.m. – CORNER GAS – “Queasy Riderâ€� – ALL-NEW EPISODE Wanda’s (Nancy Robertson) new way of getting around town brings a European flair to Dog River, much to Brent’s (Brent Butt) inconvenience. Lacey (Gabrielle Miller) tricks Karen (Tara Spencer-Nairn) and Davis (Lorne Cardi...

Norwood Young took his shirt off and the hoes stopped breathing. [Copyright Gucci Mane] I cannot and will not co-sign this. I love Norwood but this shit is just all types of wrong. I haven’t seen the use of a luxury pattern in such a fucked up manner since the video for “Stay Fly.”...

Why do prostitutes go to street corners? This doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe I am missing something. Is it just a myth (what I am suspecting)? If so where did this myth come from? Prostitution is illegal in 98% of this country, even where it is legal it's heavily regulated, so why would prostit...

Thanks to http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments-based-on.html for the following Summary! The Chamber of Engineers of the German district of Nordrhein Westfalen hardly accused the city of Cologne and the Cologne transport services. It seems that persons in charge did not...

Any endurance athlete, and especially an Ironman triathlete, should have one very specific physical objective during the race: 1) to maximize wattage (AKA power) and speed (AKA velocity) while 2) simultaneously minimizing muscular fatigue and depletion of energy stores (AKA feeling like crap). Letâ€...

A friend sent me the text of a recent WSJ editorial entitled “Will This Crisis Produce a ‘Gatsby’?� I’ll link to it later—for now I want to recreate my bad-faith reading experience in all its glory.  My first reaction was to the title, even though I know authors never write their own ti...

Yesterday, Bongani Masuku, whose infantile hate-filled speech has already been covered on this blog (here and here), addressed a kingergarten-style meeting at Wits University in Johannesburg. The meeting was authorised by Wits and hosted by Wits Palestine Solidarity Commitee, the Young Communist Lea...