October 2009
12 posts
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an...”
– G. K. Chesterton, English author & mystery novelist (1874 - 1936).
defiantdog.com →
Site of the day — no, site of the week, by the gods. Maybe even site of the month.
“What to do? Today’s cycling activists generally split into two groups:...”
– Christopher Beam How do we get bikers to obey traffic laws?. I’m probably more of a vehicularist than a facilitator but I’m a little of both.
Nation's Morons March On Washington State →
Throughout the day, the number of protesters grew to include not just morons, but more than 6,000 nimrods, 3,500 dunderheads, and approximately 12,000 of the biggest fucking dipshits known to man.
In all, 75,000 of the simpletons turned out, though dozens were killed after walking out into traffic, and hundreds more were lost after wandering into nearby Trillium Park.
Grade-A funny from...
The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the... →
An interview with Dave Neiwert of the orcinus blog, on his book and the rise of the radicalized “para-fascist” right wing movement in the USA. A subtitle of the interview might be “And How Organized Religion Can Be a Gateway to Oppression and Terror.” Jesus Christ please save me from your nominal followers.
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“Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property Tuesday in Comal...”
– Man finds missile launcher in Comal County
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“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma, and people who don’t, and...”
– Lynne Truss, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I side with the Oxfordians in this regard.
“They don’t know what a fluffer is, but at least I got them all walking...”
– CharlieS, talking about his co-workers.
AmazingSuperPowers: Ghost Of Collegiate Past →
Kind of stings. Be sure to see the hidden comic (by clicking the ? that pops up outside the upper-right border of the comic strip). Wheeeeeee!