Another Shuttle Launch, another gee-whiz article summarizing just how hard it is to get a Space Shuttle off the pad. Sounds like there's one guy who does nothing but wipe sh*t down with alcohol. Engineer-driven, government-financed work at its......

A Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Irishman asked for a whiskey, which was promptly brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asked the Mormon if he would like a drink.. He replied in disgust, 'I'...

A man returns home a day early from a business trip. It's after midnight. While en route home he asks the cabby if he would be a witness. The man suspects his wife is having an affair and he wants to catch her in the act. For $100, the cabby agrees. Quietly arriving home, the husband and cabby tipto...

Things that happened yesterday possibly of interest to some Americans: President Obama snubbed the PM of our best ally, canceling a joint presser because of "snow." Which ended Monday at noon and was no issue yesterday. (In a way I don't mind. Gordon Brown was here to address Congress and bestow a k...

I never in a million years thought I would announce this, but I am convinced I could live in the bush - dead set joo bee's.  I would require a few more battery operated appliances (no, not those!  Tsk.  I meant a hair straightener, uh - a hair straightener and a hair straighten...

Monday Brief - Vol. 09 No. 09 THE FOUNDATION “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson INSIGHT “One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in esta...

An Irish daughter had not been home for over a year. Upon her return, her Father cussed her. 'Where have ye been all this time? Why did ye not write to us, not even a line? Why didn't ye call? Can ye not understand what ye put yer old Mother thru?' :wtf2 The girl, crying, replied, 'Sniff, sniff....D...

is that Science (the capital letter is essential) studies cold hard fact while religion is all about airy fairy speculation about things nobody has ever seen. I always think of these dogmatic pronouncement when I run across things the International Journal of Astrobiology. Astrobiology. For those of...

Oh how I thought I had become a savvy mother of today's youth, young enough to understand and yet old enough to set reasonable boundaries.  Having dealt with the mini meltdown that was the comeuppance of serious girlfriend #1 of Jess, I embraced and expounded my views that I was now 'o...

Howdy from the toy chest - I'd give you all flowers and choc's as a sub-standard, sheepish here-I-am suck-arse but I know despite the cold shoulder that you can't help but check me out anyways.  Yeah .... I love you too .... So I best give you all a numeric update because .. ...