As an almost-native Californian (missed it by several months, though my mom and all my sisters are native Californians), I thought this ad was spot-on and quite funny (click to go to ad): More ads are here. Hat tip to The Volokh Conspiracy. ..bruce..
OK, I don’t drink (at least, not alcohol), but as a long-time fan of Law and Order, I found this proposed drinking game both funny and dead-on. Example: The Defense serves Jack or Cute Assistant DA with a Motion to Dismiss – Another very common one. Honestly, I’m a little shocked if I don’t see […]
…this is a bit too unnerving: Hat tip to Defamer (one of my guilty pleasures).
A few weeks ago, a British newspaper — the Newquay Guardian — carried a story about a Great White shark being sighted off the coast of England. This report, of course, was immediately cited a further evidence of global warming, as these 15,000 Google hits demonstrate. Turns out that the picture was a hoax, or […]
Here’s a story about a man transporting a dime from the West Coast to the East Coast. The catch: the dime is worth $1.9 million: Feigenbaum is a rare-coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying across the country, from San Jose to New York, is an 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to […]
I can be silent no longer. This post has caused me to question all I know about the horrible destruction I have witnessed on film repeately. We need the Truth: … 3) Why was the rebel pilot who supposedly destroyed the Death Star reported to be on the Death Star days, maybe hours, prior to […]
The Honorable Gregory R. Todd corrects a thief’s spelling and then gives him a dose of his own medicine. Hat tip to the Volokh Conspiracy. ..bruce..
![The greatest, gutsiest Father’s Day gift set I have ever seen [UPDATED]](http://and-still-i-persist.com/wp-includes/images/sw2.jpg "The greatest, gutsiest Father’s Day gift set I have ever seen [UPDATED]")
I was walking through Wal-Mart yesterday and walked past a display containing this: Stop and think: what does it say when you give your father a Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker set for Father’s Day? “Dad, you are the genocidal embodiment of evil, but I will eventually redeem you”? “Dad, you tortured my sister and cut my […]
Today’s [i.e., Sunday’s] Dilbert strip. You may go back to your normal activities now. ..bruce..
Teenagers don’t think: Her analysis included research she conducted with ISU colleagues on more than 10,000 youths from across the country regarding such things as smoking, use of alcohol and/or drugs, or practicing unsafe sex. She’s found that one of the biggest reasons teens are so hard to figure out is because there is an […]
