A Different Kind Of Funeral
Holy Smoke is just the thing for when the avid hunter or gun collector in your family passes. From their web site: Several years ago I … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
A Banned Book Fights Back
(Reuters) – Up to 150 students at a Missouri high school that ordered “Slaughterhouse-Five” pulled from its library shelves can get a free copy of the novel, courtesy … Read more
Of Compassion and Crustaceans
Saving a lost or stranded whale is great for the TV news and for making us all feel warm inside for a moment or two and kittens and … Read more
Lost Journal: This Fan Club is What’s Happening
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 7, 1987 (age 17) Each generation struggles to define itself. As part of that struggle, it must elevate certain people into icons … Read more
Bread Lines And Circuses
“Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant generation called the … Read more
Friction…and a Lot of Weight
The above is what happens when a train stops, but the slave engines don’t get the signal to stop. The main engine stops and all of the cars … Read more
The Gospel According to St. Nightingale
BEFORE BUDDHA OR JESUS SPOKE, THE NIGHTINGALE SANG, AND LONG AFTER THE WORDS OF JESUS AND BUDDHA ARE GONE INTO OBLIVION, THE NIGHTINGALE STILL WILL SING. BECAUSE IT … Read more
Lost Journal: Forecast Calls for Better Showers (and Tubs)
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 22, 2007 (age 37) Dear People Who Engineer Bathtubs and Showers: I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. Your invention of … Read more
On Our New “Green” Bus Station
The new Sacramento Greyhound station opened today. The Sacramento Bee has been making much of how “green” the new building will be: “The terminal has vaulted ceilings and … Read more
Ewe Swine! …And Other Oddities.
This picture is not photoshopped, nor is it the latest GMO abomination. It is a Mangalitsa, one of three curly-haired varieties of swine raised in Hungary and the … Read more
