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Cell Phone Holdouts Are Right: Buy a Phone, Become a Baby

by @ Sunday, February 5th, 2012. Filed under Uncategorized

Lenore Skenazy nails it: “If I were to get one, pretty soon I wouldn’t be able to live without one,” said holdout Henry Stimpson, neatly nailing the biggest problem with cell phones: the way they turn previously independent individuals into the great unweaned. “Typical incident,” Stimpson said: “I went to a ballgame with a bunch [...]

Summer Is Over :(

by @ Friday, October 28th, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized

Officially. Here is what we woke up to this morning.

F-16 pilots were ready to give their lives on Sept. 11

by @ Tuesday, September 13th, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized

The incredible story of the DC National Guard’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks as told to the Washington Post by fighter pilot Heather Penney. The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft. Except her own [...]

Never Forget

by @ Sunday, September 11th, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized

Hurricane Irene

by @ Tuesday, August 30th, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized

PAM 1, Chipmunk 0

by @ Thursday, August 18th, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized

The Chippies were stealing bird food by climbing up the pole and jumping on to the feeder. I fixed them by spaying PAM on the pole. Bonus: Watch the rabbit run through the background at about :11 seconds.

Separated At Birth

by @ Friday, August 5th, 2011. Filed under Separated At Birth, Uncategorized

Vancouver Canucks “fans”

by @ Thursday, June 16th, 2011. Filed under Politics, Sports, Uncategorized

Here is how the Vancouver hockey “fans” took the news when their Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins win Stanley Cup

by @ Thursday, June 16th, 2011. Filed under Sports, Uncategorized

They will party like it’s 1929, the first year they won.

For me but not for thee

by @ Sunday, June 5th, 2011. Filed under Politics, Uncategorized

Last week First lady Michelle Obama unveiled the USDA’s new “My plate” nutrition guide Apparently the president didn’t get the memo as the next day when he was in Toledo he scarfed down two chili dogs w/fries and a side bowl of chili

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