This is just ri-goddam-diculous...

As seen on Yahoo! News


NEW YORK - When toy maker Mattel, working with Nickelodeon, announced earlier this month that a "tween" version of Nick's beloved "Dora the Explorer" cartoon character would be unveiled in the fall, the response was overwhelming ... overwhelmingly negative.

Dora the streetwalker. A sexed-up ( Read more... )

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Or should that be SAD CEILING CAT... IS SAD???

What is most unsettling about Sarah Palin is the fact that her willingness to put in the work to get ahead is dwarfed her ambition.  Not only does *she* think she's too good for fancy-pants book learning, she thinks the same for the rest of the country.

Here's this little nugget from this past Friday, in ( Read more... )

Since moving here this past spring, I must say that Santa Fe, NM is a beautiful town.  It is actually rather small, population-wise about the same size as Altoona, PA, but with a totally different vibe.  I have joked with folks back home how a stroll down the street in downtown Santa Fe can be described as "Restaurant, Gallery, Spa, Restaurant, ( Read more... )

Note the leading zeroes, this could be a long list...

Victoria Jackson, former SNL member (she usually played the spacey blonde characters in sketches) has held forth her opinions on the candidacy of one Barack Obama:

I don't want a political label, but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti- Christ and I'm scared to death that un- educated ( Read more... )

This is a bit of 1990s retro I could have done without.

Hatred Said to Motivate Tenn. Shooter

I knew this would happen. Granted, I did jump to conclusions when this story broke over the weekend. I figured that anyone shooting up a UU Church was probably not an angry teen at the end of their rope due to parents trying to pray the gay and/or goth ( Read more... )

Thoughts on the the Supremes and gun ownership ( Read more... )

By now you may have heard that there has been a shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University. Click Here for the breaking news. The shooter is dead. Little Sis goes there, and she is fine, but once again I find myself pondering how this guy thinks that what he (or she, the shooting I had a near miss with was a woman) did is really ( Read more... )