Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
The Associated Press is reporting that an intern with the U.S. National Archives stole 164 Civil War documents (including an announcement of President Lincoln’s death), which he subsequently put on Ebay. That’s weird. But that’s not the weirdest part. You see, the thief is conspicuously reported as being a 40 year-old unpaid intern. The report … Read more
Bluetooth Revolution: Using new media to bring about change in Belarus
Robert Novak: Fred Thompson Is for Real
When John Doe isn’t enough: the Fake Name Generator to the rescue. Oh the fun I can have with this…
Those ‘Poor’ Nats: The Washington Nationals are starving now so they can be fat later — good news for a new fan like me.
You are what you eat. You are also what you drink.
Your Mom Was Wrong: Horseplay Is An Important Part Of Development
One of the reasons I love Walker Percy is because he writes into his novels gems like this: In his strange new mood he made the following observation: people notice very little indeed, ghost-ridden as they are by themselves. You have to be bleeding from the mouth or throwing a fit for them to take … Read more
My grandfather, Samuel David Cooper, died on November 13, 1997. About ten years prior — when I was in 7th grade — I took a genealogy class in middle school. One of the class projects was to interview our “oldest living relative.” Well, Granddad wasn’t my oldest relative at the time, but he was the … Read more
Cause for glee? It would appear that the inscrutable Discoshaman from Le Sabot Post-Moderne is back in the fray. The blogosphere has languished without him.