January 2009
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So, Do You Like It Greasy and Smelly?
The U.S. Dep’t of the Interior is now saying they’ve discovered that department employees “used cocaine and marijuana and had sexual relations with oil and gas company representatives.” This one offers up so many cheap shots that I don’t know what to do with myself. Drilling? Lube jobs? But I won’t stoop to that level. I’m going to stoop to a different...
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Change Your First Name, Before You Get Arrested
A recent study out of the University of Pennsylvania finds that the more common a boy’s first name is, the less likely he is to commit crimes. And, the less popular a boy’s first name is, the more likely he is to be a juvenile delinquent. For example, Michael and David are pretty safe. Alec, Ernest, Ivan, Kareem and Malcolm are not. There’s obviously a lot (too much) to explore...
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Cual es su nombre?
Driving to Miami last Sunday I saw this sticker on an 18 wheeler: “God’s last name is not ‘dammit’”. Awesome! First, of course dammit isn’t God’s last name. That’s a terrible last name. Is Dag’s last name “Nabbit”? Is Gosh’s last name “doggit”? Second, does anyone believe God has any last name at all? Why...
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Sami
Forewarning: this isn’t going to be a rant. It’s more personal than that. I moved to my current house about 3 years ago. There was a friendly couple across the street, with two cats. They also fed a neighborhood cat that I referred to as “the ragamuffin.” He was very scraggly, and apparently, very old. Mike and Darcy, my neighbors, said he had been renting his house...