"Abductees feel more comfortable wearing this in public..."

Is everyone getting their daily FDA-recommended dose of crazy?

Here's today's under $40 DIY project. 3M's Velostat is the only manmade material fit to block Their telepathic voodoo. You've been warned.

The Italian Proofing Tools Make A Potentially Offensive Suggestion!

Just paging down and reading those error titles made me laugh. I like to laugh.

Here's something:

His dream is that we will eventually be able to grow and cook fresh sausage overnight at home in a special machine, just like a home bread maker.

I, too, have had that dream.

As you may know by now, the Portuguese recently suffered the most humiliating defeat a Euro 2004 host nation can have: losing the finals in their own newly-constructed stadium to a team whose fans wear skirts and periodically attempt to burn American flags for no good reason. We weren't around to see the inevitable wailing, sackcloth, ashes, etc. in the streets of the Ironbound, but the Star Ledger has this amusing account of the one crazy Greek in the neighborhood who was just crazy enough to risk his life making a scene cruising the streets of Newark.

"let me finish. let me finish. may i finish?"



i went to a lot of work last semester to analyze the proposed plans for the upcoming hussein trial, so you can expect to see some amateur legal analysis of this laughable disaster-in-progress as it develops beyond this week's (very) preliminary hearings. already, however, one of the American planners has openly compared the trial to Nuremberg, and even suggested that both proceedings will serve the same purpose in the eyes of history--justifying armed conflict by demonstrating the evil that the victors had eliminated from the world scene. so... what's wrong with that? well, everything. at least for me. but i'll save all of this until things get underway--whenever that is. let's just say that (1) it's not exactly "Iraq" or "Iraqis," per se, that will be trying him, (2) Nuremberg is NOT an appropriate model for any international criminal tribunal operating fifty years later, and (3) the international community will never, ever accept the special tribunal or its verdicts under the current scheme. other than that, y'know, everything's cool.

anyway, the hearings didn't really yield any significant surprises-- except for Saddam's choice of facial hair. why wouldn't he stick with his traditional patented bushy mustache? is he trying to look more fatherly? less genocidal? more beleagured? oppressed? is this a sly reference back to Crazy Spider Hole Saddam? or maybe something completely new: Yosemite Saddam...

we'll never know. for now, however, here are some funny pictures from the hearing with wacky, wacky captions.