Today's Top Story

Body of Las Vegas woman found in clutter at home

From Laura and Kristine.

Smash Hit

This might not be unrelated to the post below.

From Colleen.

Awkward Positions

Tips for Single Ladies (1938)

From Peggy.

Today's Top Story

Short Stories To Die For: The Art Of The 'Obituaries'

Sleep Tight

As seen on "The Daily Show."

Source

Family Reunion

When I first posted about it, nearly four years ago, the hilarious Dysfunctional Family Circus was on the lam. Now it seems they've found a home, at least for the time being.

Thanks to Terry.

Ad Homonem

The Most Homoerotic Vintage Ads Of All Time

From Peggy.

Today's Top Story

Woman's Anus Sewn Shut by Angry Midwife

Source

"See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact,
while you talk, I'm thinking: How can I give less of a shit?
That's why I look interested."

Shit My Dad Says

Sinonyms

9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think

If you were to say "I was bemused by your dead baby joke," you wouldn't be saying the joke was funny. You'd be saying that you completely failed to understand it. You were following the story up to and including the bit about the trowel, but you'd lost the thread way before the Ku Klux masturbation climax.

From Peggy.

Tiger Paper

Think your boss is an ass?

Letters of Note: The Tiger Oil Memos

The whole site looks like good browsing.

Thanks to Kay.

A Colorful Past

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

A crossroads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton
plantation area. Melrose, La., June 1940. (Marion Post Wolcott)

Source

Today's Top Story

Unusual Foreign Bodies Removed From Patients

Source

Word of the Day

vatoo

Fast Food

A meal on the go.

Source, by way of Peggy

Comic Relief

I love this site almost as much as I hate "The Family Circus."


From Kristine.

Overheard on the Way to the Mensa Meeting

Man walking shaggy dog: Is that a whippet?

Dan: Yeah.

Man: They look like small greyhounds.

Overheard by: Albert Weinstein

Today's Top Story

From skid row to riches to an early grave

From Susan.

Me Gusta

Jay goes Spanglish.

Another good new one here.

Brothers in Arms?

It happened again the other evening.

Out with the dogs, we encountered a couple doing the same. They live up the block, but we'd never met them before. The man was easy on the eyes -- and very chatty.

"Are you brothers?" he asked.

"Partners," said Dan.

"Oh, partners," said the guy, then launching into a rapid monologue about how great gay people are and how it's all cool. "But you look just like each other. Same haircut, even."

This led to a more novel query: "Are you military?"

"No," Dan replied. "Are you?"

He's in the Navy, which he informed us is chock full o' gays, and that's A-OK with him.

'Crippled for Life'

Danger Around Every Corner

Source

Just My Type

A kindred spirit, albeit better natured and more ambitious:

A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: 'The Great Typo Hunt'

From Peggy.

Tony Judt, 1948-2010

Poverty is an abstraction, even for the poor. But the symptoms of collective impoverishment are all about us. Broken highways, bankrupt cities, collapsing bridges, failed schools, the unemployed, the underpaid, and the uninsured: all suggest a collective failure of will. These shortcomings are so endemic that we no longer know how to talk about what is wrong, much less set about repairing it. And yet something is seriously amiss. Even as the US budgets tens of billions of dollars on a futile military campaign in Afghanistan, we fret nervously at the implications of any increase in public spending on social services or infrastructure.

From Ill Fares the Land

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so? We appear to have lost the capacity to question the present, much less offer alternatives to it. Why is it so beyond us to conceive of a different set of arrangements to our common advantage?

From "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?"

Obituary here; more writings here.

Greetings From Gnashville

"Contrary to what you may have heard,
opossums are susceptible to gingivitis."

Source

O Sole Meal

A friend's sister used to maintain that Campbell's Soup for One was the most depressing food in existence, but now there's competition ... or possibly a complement.

Source, via Colleen

Wetflix

I bet Nick doesn't have much trouble finding dates.

Source

Today's Top Story

Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years

From Peggy.

'My Actions Were Unwise'

Margaret Cho has a lot to be sorry for.

Central Park

Mesmerizing.

From George.

Today's Top Story

Tourists warned to stay away from angry cows

From Derek.

Gag Reel

How To Deal With An Obnoxious Moviegoer

I'd endured her for nearly two hours, and what was a mild irritation had transformed into a boiling, volcanic rage. I don't know how my popcorn tasted, and I can't remember who was sitting near me. As far as what was happening on the screen, it's a complete blank. My surroundings had become completely blind to me. All I remember is pure, unfiltered hatred.

Overheard in the Holler

Michael, watching Sparkle sprawl inelegantly in her bed: I could totally see her in a housecoat with a cigarette hanging out the corner of her mouth.

Dan: Smoking in bed, falling asleep ...

Overheard by: Rita Delvecchio