I thoroughly recommend Robert Crumb’s new book The Book of Genesis Illustrated; exceptionally well done, and done straight, word for word.   One note: while reasonably tastefully done, there’s no way to render the begats and things like Lot and his daughters without pictures that would make your maiden aunt Edna go *gleep, that’s a bare hiney*, so ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

• I had to look up the meaning of hoon for this one (wild, stupid and reckless driver in a criminal sense) - 79 year old man doing 160 k in a 100k zone
• Best man claims he was raped by a stripper as part of the show at the bachelor party.

Big jump in the rates of teen cases of STDs and syphilis and teen pregnancies during the Bush administration, according to the CDC.    A different sort of ‘don’t ask, and we won’t tell you’.

John Ensign has decided that he’s not resigning his seat, he’s running for re-election and he’s expecting the voters to forget it as soon after Britney Spears is killed in a love-suicide pact with Lindsey Lohan and CNN spends a week of coverage on the aftermath as possible.    Well, whatever keeps his dad’s and the RNSC’s pockets empty as they try ( Read more... )

New Zealander taekwondo champ trying to open a whorehouse in his home country to support his bid to go to the London Olympics in 2012.    Well, it’s not as nice as a Wheaties box…

The short version seems to be that it’s unlikely without further explosions that Gov. Sanford of South Carolina will be forced to quit his job over the whole affair-affair, but it’s pretty certain that his political future is totally destroyed.   This review from the South Carolina paper The State puts it in a nutshell, without mentioning the ( Read more... )

From a new WaPo article about details on how Governor Sanford elaborately jerry-rigged up an Official Trip To Argentina to see his ’soulmate’ in Buenos Aires, we have a new euphemism to go along with ‘hiking the appalachian trail‘ - to ‘go Dove Hunting‘.

( Read more... )

Betting ring on an Australian Navy ship alleged where one could win points/money on having sex with female sailors, with bonuses for daring locations and less attainable women (including gay women).

Some people do not learn.   Disgusting.