The Butcher Goes to Help My Dad

I always get anxious when the Butcher leaves.  And so I’m anxious, because he’s leaving tomorrow.  It will be fine.  It always is.  But still.  I worry he’ll do something stupid or something bad will happen.  I’m not one of those people who gets bad feelings and so the absense of any nagging bad feeling [...]

Four Things 16th Century Spaniards Seemed to Love

1.  Boobs
2.  Beards
3.  Big collars
4.  Pictures of fruit arranged to look like people.

Sheep People and Goat People

So, the other day a large apparently hand-typed poster was found in a local barn and presented to me for my amusement.  I didn’t keep the poster, because I know too many people who need copies of it before I can take the original in good conscience, but the poster is awesome.
And it’s awesome in [...]

Hey, Representative Lynn! I Bet Some of These Kids Would Look Good Behind Bars

One of my readers has brought me the story of cute, but apparently potentially evil, children overthrowing the social order of the U.S. by learning English and putting out a newspaper.
Now, I don’t know if any of these kids are the children of illegal immigrants, but, on the off chance they are, I think the [...]

Oh my

My intern is in the other room right this second telling my boss about how the girl who is going to be my intern’s roommate for the coming year does not know what a bank is.
“Is that my card?” she asked my intern.
If this is an example of the great meritocracy that brings young minds [...]

An Interstate Full of Maxi Pads

Two cars, two different takes on the notorious maxi pad spill.  Note that the folks from Boston claim to be on I-65, which stopped my heart for a second, because, to put it mildly, taking I-65 to Graceland is a little out of the way.  But it turns out that Newscoma and Squirrel Queen were [...]