"I have a grown daughter that I raised with another woman. When ( Read more... )

"[...] This concept of seder is no different for kabbalistic ( Read more... )

Google maps provides directions from NYC to Dublin. Note step #23 in the directions.

( Thanks to merde, who in turn got it from boutell.)

They say that it is good to learn at least one new thing each day. Yesterday I learned that rush hour traffic exists (on I95 and the Capitol Beltway) on Saturdays. (Non, je ne comprends pas ... [how do you say 'either'?])

Today I learned that if you screw up badly enough, you can get ( Read more... )

This just showed up in my mailbox, un-credited. [Edit: It took asking Google three different ways and then Googling additional clues as they turned up in a sort of breadcrumb-trail, but I think it's by Andy Borowitz (the original has one extra "in other news" paragraph at the end), a slight reworking of what he posted for last year's SotU.] My ( Read more... )

By way of a link from cortejo: "Goldihat and the Three Peers", by Maister Iago ab Adam. "Once upon a time there were three Peers: a Birdy Peer, a Shrubby Peer, and a Chivy Peer. One morning Shrubby Peer and Chivy Peer awoke to find that Birdy Peer had stayed up all night preparing an elaborate breakfast of porridge [...]" Enjoy. (May be a bit ( Read more... )

I've spent the last few days at anniemal's, mostly not ( Read more... )

One thing about spending so much of my day in traffic (several times the amount of time I spent on stage) was that I saw a few cute bumper stickers:

• Frodo Failed. Bush has the Ring.
• red circle (well, oval) with a slash through it, over the letters GOP
• A Closed Mind is a wonderful thing to lose.

This just arrived in my mailbox:
Top Ten Reasons Dorothy was Greeted as a Liberator...and Bush Wasn't

by William Domingo

10. The Wicked Witch of the East actually HAD weapons of mass destruction.

9. Local contracts were awarded to the Lullaby League and the Lollipop Guild, not Halliburton.

8. Dorothy apologized for her misuse of the House ( Read more... )

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, Fred passed along this link. Don't settle for the snippet I'm quoting; it's got gold in it all the way to the last line:
The Universal Theory of Gravity is often taught in schools as ( Read more... )