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• Follow-up: World’s Shortest Man
  March 16, 2010 | 1:49 pm

  Just the other day I posted about a young man from Nepal who was trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest man in the world. He’s only 22 inches tall, compared to the 29-inch tall He Pingping of China, who is the current record holder. Well, WAS the current [...]

• Top Ten Overdone Stories Of The Week
  March 11, 2010 | 11:26 am

  boobcheese tickle fights child actor suicides Betty White Zombie Farrah Fawcett Canadian pissing habits that milkaholic Lindsay ChatRoulette whatever half-assed thing Google did this week out-of-control Toyotas

• Observe The Snow, It Fornicates
  February 23, 2010 | 1:33 pm

  Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, [...]

• Follow-up: I’ll Take Menhaden
  February 10, 2010 | 11:14 am

  I recently posted about the use of menhaden in making fish oil dietary supplements and the potential risk that poses to the entire Atlantic Ocean ecosystem. One of the alternatives to using menhaden for omega-3 supplements is algae oil, because algae is the primary diet of the menhaden and is actually the source of [...]

• iCan’t Take Anymore
  February 1, 2010 | 1:41 pm

  It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click a [...]

• New Year, Same Old Nonsense
  January 1, 2010 | 4:31 pm

  Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]

• Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
  December 3, 2009 | 9:58 am

  This week Barack Obama committed the United States to at least two more years of war, 30,000 troops in harm’s way for no other reason than saving face, and umpteen billions of dollars wasted FOR NO GOOD REASON WHATSOEVER and we are inundated with: Tiger Woods proving he knows how to put it in the hole GateCrashGate Meredith [...]

• Follow-Up: Mad-Lib Blogging
  December 2, 2009 | 9:40 am

  Nowhere near enough responses to fill in all the blanks on the Mad-Lib Post game, so I guess we’ll chalk it up as a loss and try it again some other time. Maybe I’ll try it on Facebook instead.

• Addenda
  October 30, 2009 | 10:57 am

  More effluvia: Those Northwest Airlines pilots Zombie Michael Jackson Sexy ____________ Halloween Costumes (in fact, anything to do with adults and Halloween) Celebrity Twitters Balloon Boy and His Crazy Dad (thankfully, this one has already faded quite a bit)

• Follow-Up: Good Without God
  October 28, 2009 | 11:19 am

  Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]

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