This Whispered “Post Me for Victor Lams”

April 1 and Easter Monday both being days for giddy hilarity–and reader Victor Lams really enjoying oddities like this, I offer the following: For those who, like me, are out of the loop on quirky music, this is, I am informed by my son, a specimen of “Chap Hop”. Why they don’t call it “chap [...]

Winter is Really Starting to Get to Some People

Ohio prosecutor seeks death penalty for Punxsutawney Phil after bad forecast Could be worse. Could be an infinity of Groundhog Days.

Glamping

Now and then, effete brie eaters like to pretend to “get back to nature” without, you know, having to have any contact with nature, any effort beyond swiping a credit card, and any change to their routine of unvaried comfort.  Behold!  There is a business to cater to the Pampered Set who want to “camping” [...]

“Cultural Marxism” is the new epithet of choice

I’ve been informed I am a “cultural Marxist”. No idea what that means, but I keep bumping into it. It seems to be a sort of right wing swear word, but I’m jiggered if I can figure out what it means, particularly since I’m not a Marxist and I always took Marxism to be a [...]

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Every Once in a While, the Vatican Goes out of its Way to Remind Us…

…that it is run by tragically unhip doofuses. Dear Vatican: Take the Pledge.

The Internet is Forever

Zombo.com has been doing its thing since 1999.  Somewhere out in space, 14 light years away, someone or something is deciphering the code from our satellite network, watching this with its compound eyes, and deciding that mounting an invasion fleet just isn’t worth it. Thanks Zombo.com!

The Internet!

Where some guy can sing “I Dreamed a Dream” in the voice of Gollum and become a huge hit! What a great world!

Brilliant

You Can Find News and Commentary on Theology, Politics, Culture and All that Jazz Anywhere

But where else can you go for Screaming Goats? Catholic and Enjoying It: Because God, in his mysterious wisdom, made Screaming Goats. You share a universe with Screaming Goats. Isn’t that wonderful? I think it’s glorious!

Georgia Lawmaker Invites Entire Universe to Make Fun of Him Online

Announces complete ignorance of first amendment–as well as fact he is a petty and censorious tyrant–by pouting “No one has a right to make fun of anyone” and trying to outlaw vulgar photoshopping. He and his face shall become internet memes for all eternity in punishment for his brain-dead Soviet hubris.

Journalists: Your Intellectual Superiors

CNN journo wonders if asteroids are caused by global warming: “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?” One hopes she was kidding.