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Civil rights group files suit against TBS network to stop showing A Christmas Story

Controversial civil rights group ISEF yesterday filed suit in federal court against Turner Broadcasting and its cable affiliate TBS to cease airing the movie A Christmas Story. For several years,…

Culture Fun

Merry Federally Recognized Holiday of December 25th That Shall Remain Nameless!

I remember when I was a kid living on the outskirts of Detroit, in Taylor in the early 1970s, in early December, aching for snow so badly that it hurt.…

Fun

Almost Top 10 Christmas Songs: guest column

Everybody will recognize long-time contributer Mike D. of the Western Institute for Study of the Environment (a great site people should browse over to). He generously contributed the following list…

Culture

“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…

Fun

Set up your recorders: tomorrow’s the day!

For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…

Fun

Wrestlers sponsor “earth hour”

I got an email---a press release---from a guy named Dan Forman from the WWF asking me to get the word out about "earth hour." Up till now, I had no…

Culture

Unnecessary hypervigilance in parks: no unaccompanied adults!

I think that sign came from England. Here in the States, we have the similar sign but in picture form---a lone adult with a circle around him and a slash…

Statistics

Here’s a good idea!

The situation is this: New Yorkers are loosing their jobs at a rate not seen since perhaps the Great Depression. The housing market is still heading downwards. People have less,…

Johnno on Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help RequestedApril 21, 2025
SiG, you use the clickety-click to go there to the fuller article to read more about the cavorting of these,…
Uncle Mike on Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help RequestedApril 21, 2025
What a wonderful death sentence for the weepy! Of the many many you have frequently offered, it might be the…
Briggs on Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help RequestedApril 21, 2025
Willis, You are confusing the correlation between the wee p and your artificial example that was selected to have a…
Willis Eschenbach on Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help RequestedApril 21, 2025
Matt, I usually agree with you, but I don't understand this. Let's say that my hypothesis is that an unweighted…
hudbwu on Let Go Your Wee P! — Reader Help RequestedApril 21, 2025
> You asked him (implicitly) what the probability is that you have the disease after testing positive. Years ago, when…