In my last post I mentioned our country’s proud tradition of submersible pilotry. I forgot to show as proof a picture of the USS turtle, the world’s first military submarine, and also my favorite submarine:
The USS turtle, 1777
A coke-filled submarine
First: If you do not read the bloggings of Michael Chertoff and friends over at the Department of Homeland Security it is your duty as a terrified American citizen to point your RSS feeder there now. (Also, comments are enabled, which presents the exciting possibility of an Osama Bin Laden-Geroge W. Bush flame [...]
So, famous and controversial blog Stuff White People Like becomes a book tomorrow. I had actually never seen the site before tonight! I think it is minimally funny but maximally ripe for parodying. Let me be the last person on the Internet ever to make a joke about SWPL.
The World of Today presents an original [...]
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Note: I am in Prague, Czech Republic for the summer. This is the second in a series of letters from me, to the Internet.
“Last month, before six months of winter darkness descended over Antarctica’s McMurdo Station, the research base received a delivery of about 16,500 condoms.”
-Livescience
Not Jesse Helms
When I first read last week that conservative politician Jesse Helms was dead, I felt sad that the former governor of Minnesota and ex-WWF wrestler had passed on after providing me so many years of delight both in and out of the ring. When I read that he was 89, I was surprised [...]
A new scientific paper suggests plasma TVs contribute to global warming via the gas used to manufacture them. The easiest way to counteract this problem would be to make a series of terrible movies about the dangers of global warming, in the vein of 2007’s The Day After Tomorrow. People will watch the terrible movie [...]
So I’m reading this article today in the NYT about Leona Helmsley, the billionaire real-estate mogul who bequeathed $12 million to her Pomeranian when she died last year. I hooked up a mind-reading device, and here is a real-time transcript of what is actually going through my brain as I read the article:
Alright, gonna [...]
Punished for poking?
Titillating news from Malaysia (the country that managed to steal its flag from both America and Turkey”):
Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of the Malaysia’s main opposition party, has been accused of “coalition-building” on the “wrong side of the Parliamentary aisle,” if you know what I mean. You don’t know what I mean? Oh. Well, [...]
