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Have you seen the Shake Weight?  It’s yet another in an endless stream of miracle get-in-shapeinators.  To it’s credit, this one doesn’t claim to “do it all”, but just claims to get women those long, lean, sexy arms for which they are, apparently, always questing. 
But what is probably the most interesting thing about it is [...]

Did you know that American Airlines has its own black people travel web site?  Neither did I.  But they do!  Black Atlas is the premier black people travel web site, and it is unmistakably an American Airlines joint.  Admittedly, it’s the only one I know, so it could be said that my labeling it “premier” [...]

After a post I made a while back about John Denver being pretty great, it occurred to me that I want to do an ongoing series of posts. As you can see by the title, it’s called “Things That Have No Right to Be Awesome, and yet, Somehow, Are Anus-Clenchingly Awesome”. Or… maybe we’ll see. [...]

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Apparently “practice” is no longer the correct answer.  Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen, Elton “Sir Elton John” John, Deborah “Blondie” Harry, Gordon “Sting” Sumner and Stefani “Gaga” Germanotta performed at some benefit there.  For some reason, and I have to assume that reason was “because it is still rocks your [...]

Did you know you can make diamonds out of tequila?  Well, maybe you can’t, but the proverbial “they” can.  In this case, “they” is Mexicans.  Mexican scientists, of course!  Yes, apparently a team of Mexican scientists got together on a Sunday for their weekly game of Shadowrun and one of them showed up with a [...]

“Immediately after completing the training of their first batch of recruits from Olympia, the legion went to war against the Black Judges of the nearby world of Justice Rock.”
You don’t need to know the first thing about Warhammer 40,000, or the Iron Warriors Legion from whence that quote came (in fact, it probably helps) to [...]

I don’t know if it makes my life amazingly horrible or horribly amazing (I’m going to go with the latter) that I get to have conversations like this. 
Ian:  “Wait, what?!”
Chris:  “How is that you know what bleach tastes like?”
Andrea:  “You…?”
Jae:  “Yes!  You mentioned that but never explained it!”
Me:  “Oh, let’s not play The Blame Game, [...]

Why?  Because my friend Ann Marie and I diagnosed a heretofore improperly diagnosed disease last night. 
What do John F. Kennedy, Wild Bill Hickok, and Abraham Lincoln have in common?  They all died of Sudden Onset Cranial Bulletitis.
Shit yeah!  I’m totally a doctor now because of that!  Don’t believe me?  Well, check out this [...]

Here is an interesting article written by an “acquaintance” of mine on increasing ecological sustainability in restaurants.  It’s a bit heavy on the advertising, but I can forgive that if it encourages other restaurants to take the same measures.
Speaking of advertising, here’s your advertising synergy idea for the day:Ozzy Osbourne has a song titled “No [...]

Apparently:  none.  I don’t mean "you don’t need much" I mean you need none.
Hank Johnson is a Democrat and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Georgia’s Fourth Congressional District.  Hank Johnson is sad, sad proof that Republicans aren’t the only ones who steadfastly refuse to learn anything that stinks of being "sciencey".  [...]