Remember the guy who sculpted Britney Spears giving birth on a bear skin rug? Well now he's sculpted Suri Cruise's first solid turd.

Why can't he fulfill his need for public exposure by auditioning for American Idol like everyone else?

For those of you following the JonBenet Ramsey case again, please note that Toya Currie, formerly known as Girl X, found raped, strangled and force-fed roach poison in a stairwell of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project on January 9, 1997 during your first bout of media-pumped hysteria over the not-news JonBenet Ramsey's murder, remains alive as ( Read more... )

No, really.

An emergency sewer crew had an 8-ton dumptruck parked outside my place with the engine running and yellow lights strobing through the window for 5 hours last night. It seems they needed it and numerous other vehicles to pump all the raw sewage out of the creek behind our property. So, shit creek.

In other news, don't drink the water.

HR 4577 confuses me. It makes it illegal to be illegal. Did I miss something in English class?

I realize that we're talking felony vs. misdemeanor here, but really, doesn't that just sound like a stupid idea.

I doubt that I can adequately convey the degree to which this disgusts me, but I'm gonna try ( Read more... )

Depending on whether or not we get a lull in more graphic stories, you may here the talking heads on teevee report on some new studies about soy. I posted a bit about his way back -- a study that showed brain shrinkage in male rats consuming a single serving of unmodified soy a day -- and the bad news for males keeps coming. A single serving of ( Read more... )

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A lot of little things remind you you're getting older. Maybe it's the creaking sound your knees make on stairs or an odd pain you never had before. Maybe it's the sudden realization you've lived in a city longer than you've ever lived any single place before. Lately, it's been an advertisement ( Read more... )

The light turned green and I started across the intersection of Spring and 17th. The mini-van in the next lane paces me. The sedan another lane over pulls ahead of us. To my right a green sports coupe driver tries to run the red light and realizes he'll never make it. He locks his brakes and begins to slide into the intersection. Turning would ( Read more... )

Example 1) "And our new slogan will be 'Better dead than bred'"

Example 2) We're using up .50 caliber ammunition in Iraq so fast we're breaking out surplus stock from 1945 to meet demand. Though I've lost the link, this ties nicely to another report estimating between 80-135K rounds fired per insurgent killed in Iraq. Anybody else find that ( Read more... )