To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
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 […]
When your child is born with extreme, visible birth defects from which it dies from in five days, people expect you to grieve. I can sympathize. Whereas you might want the child’s birth announcement for your scrapbook, that’s okay too. However, I also understand when the newspaper might balk at running a photograph of the […]
Slate today featured a round-up of previous stories about Strom Thurmond, who died last night. The link that led to this index page off of the Slate home page read Good Riddance to Strom: Poor form, fellows. I would say “I hope the writers of your obituary show greater respect whether they agree with your […]
Back in May, I wrote about a young man here in Missouri who got caught videotaping the girls locker room. Lucky thing for him, he didn’t do it in New York, where Gov Pattycakes just signed a law making video voyeurism a felony. Not only that, but if you record a someone unclothed in a […]
Fred Kaplan, of Slate, elucidates on the MDA’s recent missile test. He says it’s laughable that the interceptor could have missed and the test succeeded. His ignorance shows, but professional writers, and by professional writers I mean “all other professional writers except me,” don’t have to know much about the real world to pund. I’ve […]
Less than a week after a Florida boy is killed by an alligator, a Florida man is fined for possession of an alligator because he lassoed it and detained it as it approached a woman and two small children. The guy, who was driving, stopped and lassoed the reptile as it approached the potential victims. […]
Didn’t get the point of the Rent-A-Negro.com Web site that I mentioned? In the Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page explains it (registration required). He makes some points about blackness-as-phenomenon I am not sure I would agree with, though. Of course, I am not <insert thing I am not here>, so I couldn’t understand.
At one time I was the only Google hit for “Brian J. Noggle is a Cheesehead” but The Artist Formerly Known as the Guy with Blue Hair ruined it by posting something about my admission on his fledgling blog. Thanks. Thanks a lot. However, by continuing to repeat that I, “Brian J. Noggle is a […]
As I passed through the den on my way to do battle with the ominous Dark Load of Sith in the laundry room, I passed my beautiful wife stretched out upon the sofa, whereupon she was soaking up some primetime television. “Doesn’t she have a great body?” she asked. By she, she meant Jennifer Garner, […]
The AP wire is a–twit–ter after Ted Nugent apparently said, how delicately they put it: the words “g—-” and “n—–” on live radio Do you suspect the words are not goof and niggardly? Instead, I reckon, he might have used the words gook and nigger. (Let the insensitivity shine through! Brian J. typed the words […]
Overlawyered.com has acknowledged the contribution I made when I told them about the bad hairday that netted the sufferer $6,000. Granted, it’s not a link, but it’s nice to be appreciated, even at the cut rate without-the-J way.