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A diverting follow-up on yesterday's Best of the Web Today - March 31, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO Playing to Type Yesterday we noted a hilarious Boston Globe story about an evangelical Christian family from Ohio, whic…
Fun Questionnaire This was posted on one of my forums recently. Comment and fill it out for me, and post it on your site and I'll fill it out for you! Most recently bought: Book: Movie: CD: On your Wish list: (wha…
This was too good not to put up. Best of the Web Today - March 30, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO These Exotic 'Christian' Creatures It's like something out of the Onion: "For Family, Religion Shapes Politics" reads the hea…
Best of the Web Today - March 29, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO Bible Overturned on Appeal The U.S. Supreme Court may cite precedent from Jamaica and Zimbabwe, but jurors cannot rely on the Bible for wisdom, the Colorado Su…
Keith Mallory and Dusty Miller are walking in enemy territory through a snowstorm. "Boss?" Miller's voice was plaintive. "Yes? What is it?" Mallory brushed some snow off his face and the collar of his smock and peer…
Tyrel is on his own in old Santa Fe. Taking it slow, I walked down the dusty street. The town was quiet. A wide door opened into a long, barnlike building with a lot of tubs and water running through in a ditch. Th…
Lives again, our glorious King, Alleluia! Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia! Dying once He all doth save, Alleluia! Where they victory, O grave? Alleluia! Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! Fought the fig…
I'd forgotten this bit for a while, but Byron read it to me yesterday while we were working on literature. Needless to say, he knows what will set me off! “Pain Killer” is a quack medicine, “simply fire in liquid for…
Two bells in the morning watch found the Sophie sailing steadily eastward along the thirty-ninth parallel with the wind just abaft her beam; she was heeling no more than two strakes under her topgallantsails, and she cou…
I just love this one. Upon the death of Sir Henry Thorpe. “We mustn’t question the ways of Providence,” said the Rector. “Providence?” said the old woman. “Don’t yew talk to me about Providence. I’ve had enough o’ P…
From Family Class Sunday school, on John 18:6 (When Jesus said, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground.): "Can't you just hear those Roman officers? 'Our legion has never fallen down in battle, and now you fal…
…We both ordered coffee, and he brought it to us, and then I’ll be damned if he didn’t fetch some cupcakes with chocolate high-grade all over the top. I never even knew he had such stuff. When I said as much…
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." Robert X. Cringely, Inf…
It looks to be a busy week, so I may be back to quotes for a while. They may not be from what I'm reading *at the moment*, but I've been making notes of things I've liked over the last month. And I'm a voracious reader…
Here's a jewel, from yet another news service (I'm not picking on Reuters or UPI this time!): Best of the Web Today - March 18, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO High-Bias Leads The Associated Press plans to offer its member n…
Here's a thought-provoking headline: "Gannett: Bush's S.S. Plans to Hurt Women"-- headline, United Press International, March 16 Don't anyone try to tell me those initials were sheer accident.
If you haven't guessed, I'm back at home and gleefully ignoring (well, nearly...) the computer for a week. But until my return to school thralldom, here's an interesting and amusing little offering: Best of the Web Tod…
OK. I saw this nearly two weeks ago. It was only moderately funny (to me) until I got to the last three frames. (You DO have to read the whole thing.) Now, maybe I was OD'd on computer science at the time. Conside…
Best of the Web Today - March 9, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO Lording It Over Us Americans who attend church regularly and who care about "moral values" issues like abortion and same-sex marriage tend to vote overwhelmingl…
What is Marketing? You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I am very rich. Marry me!" That's Direct Marketing You're at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl. One of your…
Inspired by this post by "RebmaEsor." Her post concerned the phrase "dead white males." "It has always seemed to me an easy way to belittle someone based on attributes that are arbitrarily (and fallaciously) assigned n…
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. - Charles V, King of France, 1337-1380 as quoted in the above book, Chapter 2 "Instructions: Language of the Computer
And today's CleanLaugh: When the wise company president learned that his employees were tanking up on no-trace vodka martinis during their lunch hours, he issued the following memo: To all employees; If you must dri…
Today's CleanLaugh email: My son Mark was only 5 feet, 8 inches tall when he left for college in the fall. He worked through the Christmas holidays and didn't return home again until the February break. When he got…