Monthly Archives: March 2009

Two Nipples Drop a Dime

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

I’ve been neglecting my email (again), so I missed about half a dozen articles that Ms. Calabaza and Agustin F and others sent me for post ideas, all of them terrific.  Thanks you, one and all, for thinking of me … Continue reading →

Posted in NIMBY | 8 Comments

Hosed

Posted on March 30, 2009 by

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) – A man police caught performing a sex act with a car wash vacuum has been sentenced to 90 days in the Saginaw County Jail.  Jason Leroy Savage must also submit to drug testing. The 29-year-old Swan … Continue reading →

Posted in NIMBY | 11 Comments

Expert Tease

Posted on March 27, 2009 by

Here’s a book I need to read. The expert on experts is Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His 2005 book, “Expert Political Judgment,” is based on two decades of tracking some 82,000 predictions by 284 … Continue reading →

Posted in Shaken and Stirred | 10 Comments

Keeping Abreast

Posted on March 26, 2009 by

Guido warns me about this post before I even write it.  “Do you EVER want to get laid again?” she asks.  “Do you know how long EVER is?” In response, I say: nothing,  Zero.  Zilchophonic.  I have read Paradise Lost, … Continue reading →

Posted in Shaken and Stirred | 7 Comments

Hair Ye Hair Ye

Posted on March 25, 2009 by

Blogging Rule #303(b)(ii):  When stuck for subject matter, and feeling hostile, write about female body hair.  People will (1) hate you and (2) post hostile comments.  So here we go. Last week, the [Philadelphia] Daily News reported that the board … Continue reading →

Posted in Gen. Snark, Maj. Snafu, Corp. Punishment | 9 Comments

Up Theirs (a continuing series)

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

So long as we’re having a blast with colons and colonoscopies, check out the latest episode of how a grateful nation treats its veterans: Officials say more than 3,000 patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Miami had colonoscopies with … Continue reading →

Posted in News From the Nation's Dicktip | 6 Comments

Peels Real Draft

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

Three inventive mates in Sydney (Australia) say they will bring to New Zealand an Aussie beer-lover’s fantasy: a bottle of brew with a woman on the label whose bikini disappears as the contents are consumed. Hamish Rosser, 34, and his … Continue reading →

Posted in Shaken and Stirred | 4 Comments

Digest THIS

Posted on March 23, 2009 by

This sounds like the stuff of nightmares.  Swallowed live by a pterodactyl a la Raquel Welch in A Million Years B.C. Walk thru this interactive colon model and learn why colon cancer is preventable, treatable and beatable. City of Hope … Continue reading →

Posted in Shaken and Stirred | 10 Comments

Erin Go Bragh-less

Posted on March 20, 2009 by

Let’s keep the St Patrick’s Day spirit going a day or two longer. As a professional fundraiser working during the single worst economy I’ve ever confronted, I rack my grey matter daily thinking of ways to encourage contributions.  When I … Continue reading →

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Silence Is Golden

Posted on March 19, 2009 by

…..and a former president gets rich. CALGARY, Alberta – Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he won’t criticize Barack Obama because the new U.S. president “deserves my silence,” and said he plans to write a book about … Continue reading →

Posted in Gen. Snark, Maj. Snafu, Corp. Punishment | 6 Comments