To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
Hey, I could easily save the county government some time and money for any topic that it commissions committees or outside firms to study by cutting right to the answer: higher fees or taxes: After studying the issue for more than two years, St. Louis County is finally ready to talk trash. St. Louis County […]
I got this copy of Poison from the Greater St. Louis Book Fair for $1.00. I know I’ve read it before because my Aunt Dale owned a copy of it; I remember the hot blonde on the cover. For all I know, I own that copy, too, since Aunt Dale is the aunt who passed […]
An unsolicited greeting from the first company my mortgage broker could sell my name to: Our records indicate you are not participating in our recommended MORTGAGE PROTECTION COVERAGE. You may now be eligible if you are UNDER AGE 76. The ECONOMICAL term life insurance can PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE should you or your spouse DIE. […]
Apparently, some British librarians have identified fifty books one should read before dying. I’ve listed the books below and have identified those I have read in bold and those I have on my to-read shelves in italics: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Bible The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien […]
A new study questions whether conversion of corn into ethanol actually expends more energy than it stores. When confronted with contrary data, modern scienceocrats do the obvious: they attack the study on merits other than scientific: Researchers at the National Corn-To-Ethanol Research Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville said there are several federal studies that […]
In a study that will have no impact on human wellness, researchers have discovered….well, regardless of what they’ll actually find at the end of numerous, peer-reviewed studies, we need a headline now! Induce panic with this one: WARNING: Side effects can be severe: Common drugs are seeping into our lakes, fish and water supply. Start […]
Well, it’s Saturday, so I’ve got nothing better to do than to expose you to a representative of my well-used bookmark collection. It’s really only a collection because the bookmarks are accumulating in the nightstand drawer, not because I’m actively seeking new and exotic bookmarks. If I were, I’d undoubtedly have better items than the […]
This book is the latest in the Elvis Cole novels by Robert Crais; he released it just last month. As a later Elvis Cole novel, it features all the hallmarks of the Cole novels: A woman character who falls madly in love with Cole, who is oblivious because Cole is pining for Lucy Chenier, and […]
Another ad in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from yesterday, with my markup in red for your approval: Social Security If we feel like gambling, WE’LL PLAY THE SLOTS AND WE CAN, BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY WE CAN PISS AWAY. Let’s not turn Social Security into Social Insecurity. While the program needs to […]
Scientists clash over origin of ‘the Great Dying’: Volcanic, celestial theories on extinction 250 million years ago take stage in S.F.: A cataclysm 250 million years ago wiped out nearly all life in the Earth’s oceans, and nearly three-quarters of the plants and animals on land vanished too. It was the greatest catastrophe the Earth […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not live blogging the second presidential debate, although I have watched about twenty minutes of it too much (which, oddly enough, was about twenty minutes). I am voting for Bush, and every time Kerry opens his mouth, I start spitting and cursing and quite frankly, I cannot afford the bib […]
Scientists and policy makers think global warming probably continues unabashed, according to the simulations they run, and as a result, the United States should hobble its industry and become a socialist state like enlightened European failures-in-making: Blair to urge US to take tougher action on global warming Tony Blair will today urge the United States […]
I bought this book at Hooked on Books in Springfield, Missouri, for a less than a buck. As it’s a frank discussion of race, I have to wonder how this book came to Springfield, Missouri. After reading it, though, I understand why it was $.33. More on that by and by. I started reading the […]
Wow. 1996 this book was published. A Mike Hammer novel. A two-fisted, hard-boiled detective novel, something straight out of the pulps. Right before the dot-com bubble. This isn’t a Perry Mason novel from the 1960s, which you can lose yourself in because it’s timeless and only when you concentrate do you notice they’re not using […]
Andrew Sullivan links to a gushing review of a John Kerry ad that attempts to turn George W. Bush’s carrier landing into a slam against the president. Here’s how the blank Slaters describe the ad and infer its meaning: The second shot is Bush, in the infamous shot after he landed on the deck of […]
Although this column by Leonard “The” Pitts, Jr., deserves a full fusking, I’ll only fusk the chewy bits: Now, this is “Must-See TV.” I mean, I had no intention of watching CBS’ Ronald Reagan miniseries. But given the furor raised by the Republican party and assorted conservative pundits over what they perceive as a hatchet […]
My dear readers, I have hit for the monomyth cycle for you this time. I heard the call to adventure, that is, to read a left-leaning magazine to try to empathize with and understand the arguments of others. I crossed the first threshold when I bought such a magazine when I was in the belly […]
Hollywood scientists today have announced that they have found a cure for sapphism. Sapphism is an affliction known to, well, afflict innumerable sorority sisters, cheerleaders, housewives, and female prison inmates as well as other members of society, as studies (well, visits to the local non-chain video store) have shown. The cinemackly-proven treatment for this affliction: […]
I AM THE KING GEEK! Some geeks can do an impression of Agent Smith from The Matrix. Some geeks can do an impression of Gollum from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. But I have perfected my impression of Agent Gollum. Ask me sometime, and I shall do it for you. You might be […]
In my never-ending cycle of market research (can it be a market if I never sell anything?), I picked up a copy of Gentlemen’s Quarterly (save yer click, no content, just “offer” of a subscription and the cover), which somehow gets published every month. Aside from the eyecandy cover phototeeenay on Eva Mendez, ranked SOTSF […]