I Ate This Thing!

It was this: shrimp, stuffed with I don’t know what, which was succulent and spicy, wrapped in bacon, dripping with butter.  You put it in your mouth and your mouth said “Eat this every day.”  Which was alarming, because your mouth normally does not talk to you like that.
Living around the corner from a Louisiana-style [...]

The Malleus Palinficarum

Courtesy of Katie Allison Granju, we learn that Sarah Palin was blessed by a man whose works include terrorizing a woman with a pet snake into leaving her home.  The comments over at Gawker are pretty hilarious.
In keeping with the theme for the evening, I would point out that, in the actual Malleus Maleficarum, you [...]

Two Random Observations

1.  Did you ever know someone who just seemed like the kind of person who would end up half way down the block in the middle of the pouring rain without realizing that he needed his umbrella?
Not that it’s raining, mind you.  This is a metaphor.
The question is not “Do you know someone who goes [...]

The World is a Handkerchief

A Spaniard I know just emailed me saying “The World is a Handkerchief,” since she and I know each other (obviously) and have come to discover that we have a mutial aquaintance we didn’t know we had.
She said it’s a saying in Spain.
It put me in mind of Uncle Walt, of course, who compared the [...]

Is Obama a Baby Killer?

In spite of the fact that they’re running a vice-presidential candidate who believes in abortion only if the life of the mother is threatened by continuing the pregnancy…
And let’s stop and think about what this means, just a second.  Not only does it mean that, if you’re raped, you’re expected to carry any resulting pregnancy [...]