Lance on Aug 14 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Humor, Lance's Page
FROM: Dr Ben Bernanke
Central Bank of United States of America
01-658-555-1234
TO: CEO
Lagos, Nigeria
Dear Friend:
I have been requested by the regional members Federal Reserve of the USA to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Federal Reserve of the USA has recently concluded a large number of contracts for credit derivative investment vehicles “CDIV” in [...]
MichaelW on Aug 09 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page
If you’re not laughing hysterically while watching this, then you’re probably crying uncontrollably … from laughing so hard. Turn up the volume for this one:
Funniest Laugh Ever - Watch more free videos
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Peg on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Peg's Page
I am not an Ann Coulter fan. Sometimes, however, you must give the woman her due.
Evidence is accumulating that John Edwards is right — there really are “two Americas.” There’s one where men cheat on their cancer-stricken wives and one where men do not cheat on their cancer-stricken wives.
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Lance on Aug 01 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Lance's Page
I still hate the housing bill.
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Lance on Jul 31 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Lance's Page
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Lance on Jul 28 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Lance's Page
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Lance on Jul 27 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Humor, Lance's Page
Obama makes his first effort at diplomacy with the Palestinians. The response:
F- - - Washington, f- - - Obama and f- - - you.
I feel encouraged, how about you?
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Lance on Jul 27 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Humor, Lance's Page, Media
I am co-bloggers Keith and Josh will be thrilled to know that Vanity Fair now has a gay car blog.
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Lance on Jul 27 2008 | Filed under: Culture, Humor, Lance's Page
It isn’t just that this is funny-or so devastatingly literate, profane and lovingly crafted- and all over the removal of the indefinite article “a”. Nor is is just that Giles is so absolutely correct to be so exercised over the removal of the indefinite article “a.”
What I find so wonderfully amusing is that it is [...]
Lance on Jul 27 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Lance's Page
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Lance on Jul 26 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Lance's Page
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Lance on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Lance's Page, Media
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Lance on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Humor, Lance's Page
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Lance on Jul 23 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Humor, Lance's Page
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MichaelW on Jul 12 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Humor, MichaelW's Page, Uncategorized
I won’t bore you with the details, but I’ve been invited to blog at QandO and I took it.
That’s right, I hopped all over that opportunity like a starving alley cat on plate of tuna fresh and a saucer of milk. And I like it. So sue me. Just remember that I’m [...]
MichaelW on Jun 30 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, MichaelW's Page
Due to popular demand, I’ve thrown my hat into the race.
(HT: My Best Man)
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MichaelW on Jun 06 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Media, MichaelW's Page, Religion and theology
Perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of this (unbearably) long campaign season is the rare opportunity to witness deification in process. From Mark Morford, a San Francisco Gate columnist:
Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain’t no ordinary politician. You buying it?
I find I’m having this discussion, this weird [...]
ChrisB on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Election 2008, Humor, Libertarianism
Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr appeared on the Colbert Report last night. Check out the video after the jump. Some commentary from the American Spectator here.
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ChrisB on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor, Law
This has to be seen by all judicial and college football fans. I’m not sure what the original complaint was, but the opinion is great. Pay special attention to the footnotes to learn that it is the official opinion of the U.S. Judicial system that the “Game of the Century” for this century is the [...]
MichaelW on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page, science
Guess what part of your brain is not primarily for storing information about a two gyrating hippos on a camping trip.
The right parahippocampal gyrus. Much to your (and my) surprise, that part of the brain is used to detect sarcasm. Because apparently there is not enough info about gyrating hippos to fill up [...]
MichaelW on Jun 04 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, MichaelW's Page
After speculating upon Hillary Clinton’s strategic thinking with respect to the Democratic nomination, James Taranto concludes (emphasis added):
To summarize, Mrs. Clinton maximizes her chances of becoming president if she (1) does enough damage to Obama to snatch the nomination away from him, (2) failing that, does enough damage to him to bring about his defeat [...]
ChrisB on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor, Music
Reading through our spam comment queue is like listening to Feel Good Hit of the Summer.
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ChrisB on May 27 2008 | Filed under: Art, Chris' Page, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Music
This post + this post = This.
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MichaelW on May 13 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page, Notes on the war
Both via Major John at Miserable Donuts, a milblog. First, a joke as told by an Iraqi Army captain:
President Jalal Talibani summoned the leaders of the Iraqi parliament to his office for a meeting. In the middle of the meeting his wife calls him and says, “Jalal, there is a thief in our house!” [...]
ChrisB on May 13 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor, Law
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing “Halo” on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
One of the best parts of this story,? [...]
Lance on May 01 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Health Care, Humor, Lance's Page
Yet another reason to read Steve Newton, you discover blogs with stuff like this on it:
But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having a full-time job. This would allow them to work as a freelance designer/consultant/copywriter/photographer/blogger, open their own [...]
ChrisB on Apr 25 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Election 2008, Humor
I’m sure by now most of you have heard of Tony Zirkle, the Indiana lawyer running for Congress (as a third candidate) who attended a Nazi party in Chicago. However, I found his campaign site and joy of joys, it turns out he has a message board! You’ll absolutely love his excuse for going the [...]
Joshua Foust on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Josh's Page
Ever since I moved to the Midwest four-point-five long months ago, I’ve been amazed at the subtle difference that occasionally make me feel like I’m in another country. Maybe Arlington, VA is just too damned humorless, but there are random bits of naughty that crop up here and there that just make me giggle uncontrollably. [...]
ChrisB on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Foreign affairs, Humor
9/11 Conspiracy Theories ‘Ridiculous’ al Qaeda says - The Onion April 2nd
Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie - BBC April 22nd
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Lance on Apr 19 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Lance's Page, Music, Religion and theology
Heh, a response to Richard Dawkins and the unbelievers amongst us. Right or wrong, arrogant condescension does not go unpunished.
Hat tip: D.A. Ridgely
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MichaelW on Apr 10 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, MichaelW's Page
I have no idea who’s going to win the election this year, but as I attempt to handicap the race I’m drawn to the old saw that the person with whom most people would rather sit down at a local watering hole and knock back a few tall cold ones with will be the eventual [...]
ChrisB on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor
Many of you may have seen the Absolut Vodka ad that ran in a Mexican magazine recently in links around the blogosphere. Now the mocking has begun as well. I submit this more historically accurate version of their ad.
While California, Arizona, New Mexico and the rest of the green land may have been [...]
ChrisB on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Environment, Humor
Pirates Take French Cruise Ship and Gobal Temperatures to ‘Decrease’
It seems we have more correlation between pirates and global warming now. It may be time to update this graph with a downward and backward turn.
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ChrisB on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Chris' Page, Humor
Man they had some great skits on that show. I miss it.
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MichaelW on Mar 06 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, MichaelW's Page
Two Messiahs. One Religion. McQ considers how this might become a problem for the Democratic Party:
There is indeed a faction on the left who want a Gore presidency badly. And for a variety of reasons, one of which, of course, has to do with global warming and their belief that we’re on an [...]
MichaelW on Feb 29 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Media, MichaelW's Page
Story here [via: Instapundit]
After reading the story, you will probably need a new one of these:
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MichaelW on Feb 22 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page, Music
Did you ever wonder what it would be like if The Beatles had written Stairway to Heaven instead of Led Zeppelin? Yeah, me neither. But the Australian tribute band, the Beatnix, give us some insight anyway [via: Marginal Revolution, and Michael Blowhard]:
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Synova on Feb 18 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Music, Uncategorized
Last week?
…but I can no longer stand idly by and watch the media and independent voters continue to throw themselves at the feet of John McCain.
Because I’m trying to remember anyone swooning over McCain and I’m not having much luck at all.
The John McCain they fell in love with in 2000 — the straight-shooting, [...]
MichaelW on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page, Music
My first thought was something along the lines of that soliloquy from The Commitments where Jimmy Rabbitte encourages his erstwhile band to internalize the thought “I’m black, and I’m proud.”
Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the [...]
Lee on Feb 08 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Lee's Page
Via The Las Vegas Sun.
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Peg on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Peg's Page
(Cross posted at What if?)
As any of my readers know, I was a Rudy woman. Now that the handwriting is on the wall for all to see, I must go elsewhere. Romney? McCain?
My best friend from first grade, who has political views remarkably similar to my own, has a blog about [...]
Peg on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: Humor, Peg's Page
(Cross posted at What if?)
After five years of heated debate, the Commission of Human Rights approved the official Symbol of Marriage.
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ChrisB on Jan 25 2008 | Filed under: Blogs, Chris' Page, Humor
Despite the presence of the esteemed Professor Althouse, it appears the University of Wisconsin employs very ignorant professors and lecturers. It all started with Kevin Barrett, an islamic studies lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barrett is what’s known as a ‘truther’ or someone who believes the the US Government was behind the events of [...]
MichaelW on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page
As yet further proof that guns don’t shoot people, criminals do, watch the video starring Derrick Kosch as both the criminal and the people getting shot:
KOKOMO, Ind. — Police said a Kokomo man accidentally shot himself in the genitals as he robbed a convenience store early Tuesday … “The bullet traveled through his right testicle [...]
MichaelW on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Humor, MichaelW's Page
What does socialism smell like? At first blush I can’t be much more specific than “pungent and bad.” Luckily the enterprising Catalan Socialist Party has brewed up a concoction as a campaign stunt that promises to answer this confounding quandary:
Election campaigns have witnessed some strange political strategies over the years, but the Catalan [...]
Lance on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Humor, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Race
First, let us all go and see Eric Scheie delve into the sock drawer and how the moth eaten brain now, amongst all the other charges, believes Glenn Reynolds is a racist! The puppy blending, mass murder and nuclear holocaust desiring, homophobic racist known as Instapundit has an able defender in Eric, but let us [...]
Lee on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Humor, Society
The other day Perfunction posted David Duke’s political advice for the Ron Paul campaign. The noxious white nationalist’s recommendations being essentially that while Paul was great, he needs to be just a wee bit more, you know, anti-Semitic.
Anyway, it made enough rounds on the blogs that apparently the news reached Duke himself. He emerged from [...]
MichaelW on Dec 28 2007 | Filed under: Humor, MichaelW's Page
Someone in Georgia is apparently planning on hosting a kegger for a small division [HT: my wife].
Thieves took tractor-trailers loaded with beer and swiped the suds twice within the past week, authorities said.
Dougherty County authorities are investigating a report of a missing 53-foot-long trailer that was loaded with more than 2,300 cases of [...]
Lance on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Lance's Page
Speaking of Thompson, his sense of humor (which seemed absent after wonderfully wicked pre-campaign bits such as this) is really starting to come out. I love his response to the AP’s question about the candidates favorite President from the other party. Predictably the Democrat’s all chose Teddy Roosevelt, the Republicans leaned toward Truman. Fred steps [...]
Lance on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Humor, Lance's Page
According to Matt Lewis:
Anyone watching Iowa had better not write Fred Thompson off just yet …
Why?
Matt points me to this column:
But after a sluggish start, Thompson has sensed an opening in Iowa, and he’s moving decisively to exploit it. The opening arises from a combination of Romney’s changes of position on social issues and Huckabee’s [...]
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