On the Urban Dictionary, there is a new comma, the, Shatner, Comma (via Insty).  It is defined as: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. This is what Shatner commas look like:… Continue reading

It seems that every time I think I can’t be baffled by the bullshit put out by the federal government under the guise of rules and regs that something else comes along.  Via Advice Goddess, a Canadian woman had a candy egg confiscated from her car because it contained small toys that could cause choking. … Continue reading

In 1968, Johnny Cash performed at Folsom Prison.  The first youtube is a recording from the live album taped at Folsom Prison in 1968.  The second is a live performance of the Man in Black also singing Folsom Prison Blues in 1974. Continue reading

Enforcing laws does not seem to be Sheriff Dupnik’s modus operandi so is it any wonder that he made of mess of handling Jared Loughner?  He refused(s) to enforce the new Arizona immigration law.  He was quoted here as saying: “This law, it’s just irresponsible,” he said. “It makes them [legislators] look like racists.” Dupnik’s… Continue reading

Okay, so I take Himself’s car last night to my yoga class in order to fill it up with gas before the expected snowstorm.  As I’m heading up the highway, I spot a dead deer on the road, too late to swerve.  So I take the car right over the top.  It didn’t seem like… Continue reading

I was going to post about the similarities between the MSM/Democrat meme of violent images (only those images coming from the Right of course) being the cause of the Arizona shooting and the 1980’s meme of Dungeons and Dragons causing people to go batshit insane and haunt the steam tunnels and sewers of cities in… Continue reading

For the last two days the cats have insisted that there was a mouse in the bedroom (all but Bob, who I think has had his share of mice and doesn’t want to partake if he’s not starving).  But they seemed to forget about it, going about their business yesterday instead of trying to cram… Continue reading

So, most everyone has probably heard about the rewriting of Huck Finn to make it ‘more accessible’ to modern readers (and to try to keep it off of the book most likely to be banned list probably).  In reality, it was to make one English professor more comfortable in reading and teaching the book (see… Continue reading

In Illinois, former Gov. Jim Thompson, the lawyer of former Gov. George Ryan has been lobbying to get Ryan a furlough so he can go see his dying wife.  Now I’m sorry that Ryan’s wife is dying but he did the crime, has to do the time.  There are plenty of other prisoners who go… Continue reading

Via Big Government, the Michigan Education Association is taking some of its members, who don’t want to be members, to court.  In Grand Rapids, the school board voted to no longer deduct union dues from teachers’ paychecks–instead the teachers have to write a check directly to the union.  Apparently, approximately 90 folks refused to do… Continue reading