Memnison Journal

The local Sioux Falls paper notes that the voting percentage in the most recent school board election was 3.55% in an editorial asking for voting to be made easier by eliminating precinct voting in favor of at-large polling places scattered around the city. Personally, I think that’s more likely to confuse the heck out of [...]

As some of you may have sussed out, since November of 2007, I’ve been working 99% of the time out of my basement office…with a huge long line of doctor’s excuses, bases on either my non-healing foot wound, or my weak response to infections casing raging problems on and off.  The office finally said that [...]

(taken from the teabagger protest in DC this weekend) Lesson #1: Anyone who is not a Republican is not a Marxist.  Really. Lesson #2: The last Czar in Russia gave up the throne in 1917, and the Russian Communists took over Russia in 1918; I don’t think you understand that there were no Czars in [...]

I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all.  But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]

Stupid thief of the day: Dayton, Ohio cops catch man outside barbeque joint, reeking of grease while the burglar alarm was going off (yes, I know the newspaper’s writers say wreaking; I can’t help the fall of journalistic standards) – he claimed he was dumpster diving for leftovers, but the cops found that he’d broken [...]

New Zealander taekwondo champ trying to open a whorehouse in his home country to support his bid to go to the London Olympics in 2012.    Well, it’s not as nice as a Wheaties box…

Gov Sanford of South Carolina admits that his mysterious disappearance over the last week was to go off to Argentina to see his mistress. Well, there’s always the Sanford / Ensign ticket for the GOP next time, with the motto: “Don’t do as I do, do as I say.” And yes, that is Gary Hart [...]

Bollywood twist number: Aao Twist Karein (Youtube) – beyond description.    I liked the dancing rock band and the eyebrows wiggling, of course.

Actually, to clarify…I don’t *have* twins, I have half of the set.   Story is about a woman who had fraternal twins with two different dads (her husband and a seekrit boyfriend) – which means (1) She Do Get Around Don’t She, (2) and she’s fertile as a turtle (since she’s now pregnant again). I will [...]

Making business cards out of beef jerky using a frickin’ laser beam. Pundits in National Review that are concerned that Obama is going to appoint someone who will be ready to establish a constitutional right to be cloned. Jim now breaks out his top hat and cane, and becomes a singing, dancing star of the [...]

…said Abraham Lincoln. Amidst the tons of Sidewise reading and whatnot, I’m also reading Paul Riddell’s Greasing the Pan. Since it’s all basically essays and all of the material is reprints from deceased magazines and the like, it’s not like you HAVE to read it all in one sitting.  It would make good bathroom reading [...]

The People at the US Attorney’s office in NYC who didn’t bother vetting emails that they got in after a call for statements from people who were rooked by Bernie Madoff.  They included with a ton of other emails a ‘Nigerian scam’ style email “If you can assist, I am willing to give you 10% [...]

The Six Flags parent company is looking at bankruptcy. Wheeeee goes the rollercoaster… American Axle, a big supplier of GM and Chrysler, is looking at going out of business.  Broken Axle jokes accepted at the door. CNBC’s Cramer The Huckster gets down with a mea culpa of sorts with Jon Stewart’s show.  I’ve seen the [...]

< snark switch turned on > As a Person of the Illinois Persuasion, I see no reason why we should pay for volcano sensors in Louisiana, or landslide detectors on the Chicago beaches, or hurricane detectors in Alaska.    And protecting polar bears in Florida is just wrong. I did notice ‘things to do in case [...]