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Hickory what?! If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s hysterical. It gets funnier as it goes along….

The old man walked six miles to school every day. Uphill. Both ways. In three feet of snow. During the hottest part of summer. Ate dirt and was grateful for it. History got worse every time he thought about it. I have $2.32 in checking. Nothing in savings. My next paycheck is two weeks away, and it won’t cover the

And proud as a peacock! Go Mountaineers!

First, Media Life offers up this little around-the-horn on Judy Miller’s “retirement.” Of particular interest are Lynne Duke’s (WashPost) remarks: … [Miller’s] style is indeed ‘pushy,’ as she herself suggested. But would an aggressive, high-decibel male reporter be embroiled in all the controversy in which Miller finds herself? It is a question that some of her friends raise, for they

Flashback: Top 10 Career Moves for Judith Miller (what – being Karl Rove’s transcriptionist isn’t good enough for her all of a sudden?) At the risk of being perceived as a “self-promoter,” I would like to note that I was railing about her faux-journalism well before the J industry woke the hell up and realized they were being played. If

The hospitality of lepers is precious – it’s all they have. They smile sadly at the grace with which I refuse their fruit. Together we dance manners as fine as any court in Christendom.

“Between us girls, would it help to clarify the issue if you knew that Hungary is land-locked?” – CDR to MAJ (EUCOM) on why a deployment from Hungary is likely to proceed by air vice sea And there’s dozens more. I’ve never been in the military, but it sounds kinda like a Fortune 500 with air capabilities…. [THX: Sam King.]

I love Albert Brooks. Hollywood doesn’t have a lot of people with his combination of brains and humor. So you really ought to read his take on the Boomers hitting 60. Some stray thoughts: The way people are carrying on, it might be more accurate to say that Boomers are hitting 60…like a blue jay hitting an extremely clean glass

Hmmm. The usual objections apply, I suppose. I feel like a large percentage of my answers weren’t so much statements of absolute principle as they were practical reactions to the unseemly realities of the political condition I have to live in. If people would behave themselves a lot of these scores would shift. But what is mostly revealing in this

Man approaches counter in video store, holding copy of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Clerk (late 20s, somewhat nerdish looking) I can help you with that. Man Before I get this one I have a question. Do you have any Buster Keaton? I checked Classics and Comedy, but I may have missed it. Clerk, turning to terminal Let me check.

Feckin’ priceless. Justice has come around, and it’s riding a moped…. [Thx: fikshun.]

Somebody want to pour Fred Smoot a nice tall glass of shutthefuckup juice?

Here’s my favorite part: “The AT&T brand reflects what customers are looking for in a provider,” SBC CEO Edward Whitacre Jr. said in a statement. “They want the latest technology and services, but they also want reliability, quality and trustworthiness. Only the AT&T brand offers this ideal combination of traits.” Clearly Mr. Whitacre never dealt with AT&T’s Wireless division (now