Dammit! I Swallowed Another One! A New Cartoon Book by Kit Lively
Kit Lively has been a writer and cartoonist for MAD, National Lampoon and many other publications for many years. His strange, twisted sense of humor sets him apart … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Corporate Mission Statements for Our Times
Mission statements are a modern attempt to give meaning and a face to a corporation’s work in its never ending pursuit of profits. They are a statement on … Read more
Belt-Fed Badminton
Russian police have a new “non-lethal weapon” for crowd control at protests. Tear gas and pepper spray sometimes are lethal and tasers kill at an alarming rate here in the states. Water cannons would kill by the hundreds in the Russian winter…i…
Great Invention Caused by Coffee Jones
Consider the web-cam. Hard as it may be to believe, it was invented for a purpose other than allowing drunks to share close-ups of their genitalia with casual acquaintances. I know, it’s hard to believe, but it is true no…
Walmart Institutes Dress Code for Shoppers
Strategy is part of a makeover for the image-conscious Walmart chain After years of being the butt of jokes regarding the class of shoppers it attracts, Walmart executives … Read more
Medea Benjamin to Speak in Sacramento
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink and Global Exchange speaks in Sacramento about drone warfare and her book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. Thursday, June 21, 2012, 7pm, … Read more
The Blood Light
The Blood Lamp is a teaching tool about understanding our carbon footprint. To activate it one must break off the top, crush a tablet to powder, dissolve it in the liquid in the bulb, then add a drop of blood. A chemical reaction…
Mitt Romney Wants New Tour Bus Equipped with Gaydar
According to reliable sources, Mitt Romney is about to get a brand new tour bus, as his old one is falling apart and starting to smell a bit … Read more
Cyber Ghosts and Dresser Drawers
There was a story I read long ago. I think it was by Ray Bradbury. It is certainly in his style. In the future all fiction has been banned and burned. The ghosts of Poe and Lovecraft and all the others live on in a haunted mansion …
The Last Glass of Dandelion Wine: Ray Bradbury Dies
My first encounter with Ray Bradbury happened before I had read any of his stories. I remember I was seated in the auditorium at my grammar school. They showed us a 16mm film of a man with thick glasses wearing a sweater who talked…
