I stole the cartoon from The Agitator, who got it from the New Yorker, a magazine known for great cartoons. I thought it might nicely accompany this censored rant, Why vegetarians should be force fed with lard. Here’s an excerpt.
I became a vegetarian because I was told about what happens to meat in the gut. [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2006 by pwyll
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Sometimes a crime is so imaginative that it approaches art. I once read of a case of identity theft where the victim had secured identity theft insurance. When he tried to collect, he learned that the thief had beaten him to it. This one is nowhere near that good, but still interesting.
A programmer hired by [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2006 by pwyll
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I am saddened by this news.
Three-year-old Katherine McCarron had retreated into her own autistic world Saturday when her mother, Dr. Karen McCarron, decided she wanted to “end her pain and Katie’s pain,” according to a Tazewell County Court record obtained by the Journal Star on Wednesday.
An affidavit of probable cause said McCarron admitted to her [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2006 by pwyll
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The Corner quotes John McCain:
When I was a young man, I was quite infatuated with self-expression, and rightly so because, if memory conveniently serves, I was so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else I knew. It seemed I understood the world and the purpose of life so [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2006 by pwyll
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Concerning the November elections:
But it is not President Bush, it is the congressional wing of the GOP - and by extension the national party apparatus that goes on regardless of who is in the White House - that is on the ballot and it is chiefly to them that I find myself no longer willing [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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I missed out on this eBay auction for a trepanation kit. I suppose a cordless drill could work in a pinch.
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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