Fear Chinese imports
Well, the Chinese have stopped even pretending concern for the welfare of the foreign peoples to whom they export. As if shipping potentially hazardous tires, dolls, wooden art sets, and even faulty fortune cookies wasn’t enough, now they’re selling people missiles.
But Saudi Arabia, a country so renowned for being concerned with safety that it …
His name is Bruce
Bruce Campbell
What do you get if you mix the classic comedy The Three Amigos with the cult classic Evil Dead series of humorous horror films?
You get Bruce Campbell’s new movie My Name Is Bruce, an indie flick (you’ll rarely see Bruce starring in anything else) in which actor Bruce Campbell ostensibly plays himself kidnapped by …
Be nice to The Economist
Above: ”Blogger Etiquette.”
The Economist is a classier magazine than most. Even the comments on its website’s blogs, I’ve often noticed, tend to be of a far higher quality of cut than you’d find, say, here, where you ***** won’t even post and give me the attention I pathologically crave.
But back to The Economist: Really, …
The Batwink
A new preview of coming comic Batman & The Outsiders shows Batman pontificating in his cave about why a shady corporation manufactures ”quantities of Berkelium and Californium”.
”Two highly radioactive substances with no practical industrial applications,”
muses the crimefighter, adding that ”[the corporation] has contacts with the European Space Administration.”
The writer of the series, Chuck …
The women have won
Above: ”Y’know, Jake, I gotta say… Talking with you and opening up like this really does beat looking at my dad’s magazines.”
Remember that age-old stereotype concerning what men want to do and what women want to do? You’ve seen or heard it a thousand times, perhaps even experienced it yourself: the woman wants …
What was God thinking?
The Good Lord’s reputation for cruelty amidst our world’s heathen is in no way improved when scientists make discoveries like this:
”A sexy sway of the hips, long-believed to be a sign [of] seduction from women, actually may mean back off, according to a new study.
”A woman with a sexy …
What Gen. Musharraf Should've Said
President Bush: ”General Musharraf, you can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time.”*
General Musharraf: ”Aren’t you?”
President Bush: ”…Uh… Well…. Hell. Yeah.”
G.O.P. Outlook: Sunny
Above: New GOP logo.
Although the Bush Administration has quite typically failed to capitalize on it politically, all Americans are this week definitely enjoying the benefits of Republican-birthed legislation: additional sunlight.
According to FOX News,
”If you turned your clocks back one hour Sunday morning thinking it was the annual move back to Standard Time, all …
"Indian Givers"
Why do we from the U.S. sometimes call people ”Indian givers”? Is it because a generation’s worth of experience with the cutthroat prices of 7-11 and the Holiday Inn have convinced us the term is an oxymoron?
As it turns out, no; in fact, it doesn’t even have anything to do with India. According …
Functional Ambivalent
Here’s a confession for you: I don’t like reading blogs.
I don’t even like thinking of my posts on Minor Thoughts as part of a blog, even though they quite clearly are. Why I don’t isn’t the point of today’s entry, but I touched on it once when I explained why despite my living in …