Compare and Contrast
This crocheted toy: With my proper Play-Doh rendition from January 2011: One is a little more optimistic than the other, don’t you think? (Dune amigurumi, Mr. Neat-o.)
View ArticleFree Republican Voters
You know what would make a couple Republican voters or at least discouraged Democrat voters? Subjecting urban homesteads, especially those with chickens, to USDA inspection. Here me out, I have a...
View ArticleI Wonder If He’s Been To Africa Lately
An article in American Profile claims that a man has been to every nation on Earth: The ink stamps in John Rheinberger’s passports read like the register of an experienced—and dedicated—world traveler:...
View ArticleBuffalo Schools Learn the Lesson from Republic Schools’ Example
Back in 2011, the Republic School District (the school district in which I live) removed some books from its library and triggered a national media firestorm that eventually led to the school district...
View ArticleAn Unspoken Suspicion
At the Telegraph, Celia Walden skates around the issue Hollywood has kissed goodbye to the steamy sex scene: According to Vincent Bruzzese of Ipsos, a market research company, sex has been all but...
View ArticleThe Unsophisticated Past
City Journal has a long (well, it is City Journal) piece comparing women’s magazines of 1963 to those of today, and finds the material different: Flip through the weighty 50-year-old issues, and you’ll...
View ArticleThe Wheels Within Wheels Come Off
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has ties to an organization to defend Republican Paul Ryan: The arm of the Mark Zuckerberg-backed immigration reform group that focuses on conservatives is going on air...
View ArticleIn Comic Book News….
I understand Archie is going to be replaced with a female Archie. Or something. This is news for adults?
View ArticleAuthentic Proof of Brian J.’s Coolness
On Cracked.com, a list entitled 6 Awesome Things I’m Not Cool Enough To Own. Let’s compare the listing to my personal inventory: Fedora: Come on, you know me. I’ve worn a fedora, yea, verily, stood out...
View ArticleFall Festival Season Means Raffle Season
And by “raffle,” I mean gun raffle: Somebodies will gasp when they discover that one of the raffles is the local EMTs that are raffling off a gun. Guns are dangerous! And they’re EMTs! Down here in...
View ArticleComic Book Subversion Circa 1990
Inside the front cover of Forgotten Realms #18 from 1990: An ad telling kids about the Constitution. A government-funded ad about the Constitution. 21st century kids ain’t got time for that. 21st...
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