Wave Of Apoplexy About To Be Unleashed
Dear reader, it is your duty to memorize these signs of stroke. Use the helpful FAST mnemonic. F = Face: ask the victim to smile; does one side of her…
On Dressing Well
Make that, "On Dressing Not So Well." Here is a picture from a mall in Santa Monica, first appearing in the Los Angeles Times. The article which surrounded this picture…
Rick Santorum Says Devil Pwons Hollywood
Santorum was out flogging a movie in which he has an interest---The Christmas Candle---and was heard to say of more traditional Hollywood fare that "the Devil for a long, long…
The Most Depressing Picture Of The Year
Ladies and gentlemen, the most depressing picture of the year. Yes, worse than the pic of Joe Biden bringing muffins to lock-ins during the government shutdown. These, my dear readers,…
The Night Fred Astaire Shot Up Broadway
From hellion Fred Astair's autobiography Steps In Time, Harper & Row, New York, 1981 edition, p. 34. The year was about 1910 [emphasis mine]: I'll always remember Dick Moeller shooting…
We Do Not Discriminate On The Basis Of…Contest! Winner Declared!
Yours Truly is always on the lookout for teaching jobs, since that is his passion and where his skills lie, and so is well familiar with the application process at…
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Baseball To Toss Tradition, Allow Replays
There is a lawyer in each of us struggling to claw its way out and sue. Yet most of us---because we learnt to heed our mothers and are kind to…
Six Types Of Atheists?
A group of academics---and in a happy shock, they used their own money to show this---discovered that there were six types of atheists. Which type are you? Christopher Silver, of…