a call for help, a plea for sanity

I need a word. Perhaps I’ll call on the verbivores to help, but you, gentle reader, might know of one already. Here’s the definition: “To become what one ostensibly opposes, often in the course of that opposition.” It may sound like hypocrisy, a la “if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s [...]

Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat

You cannot resist the Flying Spaghetti Monster Hat.
The Pope has a special hat. Rabbis have special hats. Rastafarians have special hats. Why not Pastafarians?

Bush threatens to veto non-Iraq overspending

Because, you know, we can only manage one giant money pit at a time.
Updates from my previous posts, in case you’re still keeping score:

Weapons of Mass Destruction found before invasion: 0
Weapons of Mass Destruction declared by US before invasion: LOTS
US Cost in dollars: 275,000,000,000
US military deaths: 2,390
Iraqi civilians killed: 34,500
Weapons of Mass Destruction found after [...]

full tables, empty pockets, and open Gates

I just stumbled across an odd little op-ed about a dinner that Bill Gates held for the president of China.  The event itself wasn’t nearly as interesting as the author’s interpretation of it from a Chinese culinary (and gusto-political) standpoint:
…To us Chinese, eating is not just about filling up the stomach. It is an art [...]

For the pilot of a Jumbo Jet?

Izzard fans will get why I’m attracted to this recipe for a giant Jammie Dodger. (Grumble grumble Jammie Dodger…)

United States is no help to Iraqi women

Sigh.
United States is no help to Iraqi women
A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women’s-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.

call your representative, demand a debate

The time has come to open the debate on Iraq again.  How?
With 218 signatures on a petition called House Resolution 543, [...]

brother astronomer

What do you call a Jesuit brother who was trained at MIT, splits his time between Italy and the (oxymoronically named) Vatican Observatory in Arizona, and wrote a well-received amateur astronomy book?  You call him Guy Consolmagno, apparently, or Brother Guy.  I just heard a fascinating interview with him on CBC’s Quirks and Quarks podcast, [...]

Buy a photo of Glen on eBay!

I’m not kidding. His back is turned, but he’s the one in the brown shorts on the right. Nice legs, honey.

Neither down low nor too slow

Enjoy celebrating today, but don’t get slap happy!