Excellent article from a very odd place on 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can (And Must) Agree On at Cracked.Com. Cracked.Com is the online version of Cracked magazine, which I remember mostly as a Mad magazine knock off. I would read it as a kid now and then, but Mad was the real thing. Anyway, [...]

I was unaware of these neat Roman curses being found in the UK. I think we should come up with a modern version. Someone’s image left on an old hard drive buried in the back yard?

There has been another copyright hubbub this week with a photographer, Lane Hartwell, had one or her photos appear in a parody video that got to be popular. She got mad, asked them to remove it, when they were flip with her she got a lawyer and filed a “notice and takedown” under the [...]

The Orioles made some offseason noise this week by trading Miguel Tejada to the Houston Astros then having seventeen players show up in the Mitchell Report on steroids use. They were Brian Roberts, Miguel Tejada, Jay Gibbons, Rafael Palmeiro, Larry Bigbie, David Segui, Jack Cust, Jason Grimsley, Jerry Hairston, Tim Laker, Gregg Zaun, Manny Alexander, [...]

I say lock them up and throw away the bloody key. Are there no poor houses? Wha.. oh, this is one, well that is no excuse.
Edit: It gets worse, now you are supposed to hide from Carolers as you cower in fear in your own home.

“The only thing I regret is not getting trapped behind the bar.” Who will save us when our toilets become potential death traps?

Despite our ongoing evidence that squirrels are plotting to destroy us utterly this master armorer has decided to start selling them plate armor. This cannot end well at all.

I got a complaint for a regular reader who was disappointed I hadn’t posted on the canoeist who came back from the dead. I don’t know why the story didn’t appeal to me. Maybe it felt like the guy and his wife were just too hopelessly incompetent as criminals or maybe it was just the [...]

Yesterday was Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day and I missed it! Now I am forced to invent a machine to return to the past and correct my mistake!

A great post that has been honored in the 2007 Best American Sportswriting Annual details one of the tragedies of Major League Baseball’s sad historic ban on Non-Human players: Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever.
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