When the CEO of Wal-Mart announced that he favored an increase in the minimum wage last week, I knew I smelled an anti-competitive rat even though I couldn’t figure out just where the sumbitch was runnin’ to, but I believe that Lew Rockwell has found it: The current minimum is $5.15. According to studies, Wal-Mart [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The latest polling data from Iraq has pretty much destroyed the highly guarded optimism I expressed before the vote on the now (apparently) approved Iraqi constitution. The Telegraph reports: The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks [...]
Remember that video that made the internet rounds a while back of the fat kid dancing around with a toy sword pretending to be a Jedi. Well, I think this video has the potential to be that big. Watch it and ask yourself: “how long did it take these kids to perfect this?” Link via [...]
There are now 2000 dead American troops from the war in Iraq. In truth, there is no purely rational reason why this particular grim milestone is noted while most of the others were not. The not so rational reason for it is that people are obsessed with big, round numbers. (This is why people always [...]
I like to think that I have seen more than my share of the horrifying shit that makes up this world, but watching ABC Primetime on Thursday I saw something that truly appalled me, these twin girls: What was it that made these two seemingly innocent girls so frightening, you ask. They are a singing [...]
I promise to get back to more substantive posting ASAP, but for now here is a self-described Damn Cool Illusion. Hat tip to Kevin.
Well, the Cardinals–with some extraordinary help from the umpires–blew it, meaning that God did not grant my prayer. I guess it really must have been seeing Barbara Gorgon in the stands that got to Lidge. Anyway, to distract from the pain of the Cardinals’ elimination I reccomend this website that features actual comic book covers [...]
If anyone doesn’t know what happened in Monday night’s Cards-Astros game, he must truly not care a whit for baseball, so I’m not going to waste time recapping that amazing spectacle. All I will say on the subject is that it looks like God may have granted my prayer at the very last moment. Another [...]
In my hour of need, I am turning to you, oh Lord. The Cardinals are down 3 to 1 in the NLCS. I was born on June 1, 1983, which means that when the Cardinals last won the World Series in October of ‘82, I was little more than a zygote. Though I’ve never heard [...]
A woman from Loveland Ohio was arrested for owing $1.16 in income taxes. As if to drive home the point that politicians are uncaring pricks with no sense of proportionality, Loveland’s City Manager Fred Enderle had this to say: “Whether it’s $1 they owe us or $1,000, it’s not fair to the rest of the [...]
