Serial disappointment

... each time that frickin' Kid Rock song come on, and I realize 2 seconds later that it's not Warren Zevon.

I can almost taste it...

Busch Light with coriander seed and orange peel.

Little Known Fact

In a major, with a share of the lead after ninety holes, on the day after Father's Day in a Leap Year, Tiger Woods has never lost. Ever.

You could look it up.

Jeebus

Saw this:
and was reminded of this:

Waiting for the eye-rolling from TWN.

Million-dollar idea

For the burgeoning fly snack market: Reese's Feces.

So many facts..

...so little space.

There goes another piece of my brain that will nevermore hold useful knowledge. I just read that Lulu was once married to Maurice Gibb. Ask me in twenty years -- I'll still remember it, instead of remembering something important.

RIP, Bobby Fischer

...ya bastard.

Thanks, Iowa!

...for giving us another Pat Robertson. Once again, it falls to New Hampshire to take one quick look and say "No thanks, we don't really like anti-science ignoramuses. Hit the bricks, Huckabee."

Boy, ain't THAT the truth

"Fear is the enemy of creativity."

Buono Viaggio, Luciano

Welcome to Hell, Rev. Falwell

Of the 9/11 attack:

I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians ... all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say: you helped this happen.

Despicable.

Happy Birthday, Young MC

He's 40 today. Make up your own punchline.

Now, that's just an unfortunate camera angle

Denied!

The Federal Railroad Administrator denied the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad's $2.3 billion (that's billion with a "b") loan application.

Poor DM&E! I hope John Thune's check doesn't bounce.

James Cameron: I'm King of the Loons!

Director James Cameron says he knows where Jesus was buried.

So long, Milton Friedman

My interest in economics was sparked way back in about 1980 or so when I heard about Friedman's negative income tax (NIT) proposal. It appealed to my juvenile mind back then, and it still does.

Yes, I realize that that could be interpreted to mean that I still have a juvenile mind.

Anyway, it seems to me that a NIT could largely satisfy 1) the flat-tax people; 2) the progressive-tax people, and 3) the tax simplification people, all at once.

Alas, the lobbyists who make the Washington world go 'round would all have heart attacks.

Dumbassery

The stupidest post-election blather I've heard yet*: soon-to-be-former-Senator Rick Santorum said something like "This was just a little too steep of a mountain to climb, but it was not for lack of people wanting us to climb it."

I'm pretty sure it was for lack of about a third of a million people wanting him to climb it.

*But it's early on Wednesday. Surely several people will top this by week's end. Howard Dean? Tony Snow? John Kerry? Dubya?

Miler

Jim Ryun lost? C'mon, people! The guy ran 3:51.1!

Palmolive...

...contains neither palm nor olive. Discuss.

Naturally

Was there ever a more appropriately named baseball executive than Yankees GM Brian Cashman?