Memnison Journal

Possibly the most annoying and rude commercial I’ve seen in a while; it doesn’t sink in as to what’s going on until the end.  Aaaaargh.  (NSFW, really mostly crass as heck, and it sure helps if you know the slang reference to the anatomy.)

Where’s Mjöllnir when you need it!
Mr Alexander said the burglar threw himself out of a first floor window of his home in Edinburgh when he threw open the door and confronted him.
Speaking today Mr Alexander said: “As soon as he saw me his eyes went wide with terror.
“He [...]

When Stalin looks good to the Russians and Emperor Bokassa looks good to the Central African Republic, you know things are bad….now, I’m waiting for a musical about Robert Mugabe with singing, dancing terrorists swinging around AK-47s.  Madame Mao’s dead, so they’ll need to hustle up a new choreographer for that one.

Oh, you just wait till you’re on the other side of the cut missy…

Images after the cut, all totally safe for work:

“What, the dead whale too?”

From flooding earlier this year (click on image to enlarge):

Hedge Fund founder who lost a serious bundle in the Madoff ponzi scheme commits suicide, and no, he didn’t jump out a window.
The radical Israeli settlers in the West Bank are a political nightmare that any government will have serious problems with and neither main party coalition wants to deal with.  Of course, government policies [...]

“The Reformed Druids of Long Beach celebrate the Solstice with a display of the Sacred Cactus and the Blue Birds of Happiness.”

Well, that’s modern technology for you.

Jeremy Piven gives up a Broadway starring role because he’s been eating too much fish, especially sushi; apparently the extreme exhaustion / fatigue he was suffering was because the fish had passed on to him rather stratospheric levels of mercury…
…and the ticket holders are asking for refunds.
At least one person associated with the play seemed [...]

…so be good for goodness sake!

Our dog Dot, with a very jaundiced eye towards the universe…

Dayton officials say that an entry they put in a pile of stuff for a possible Obama-signable economic stimulus package for local jobs wasn’t supposed to be there - an initiative to get hookers off Dayton streets.  I can’t imagine the sort of jobs something like *that* would generate locally.
Wait, maybe I could.  *shudder*

Well, pawnbrokers are doing well from the frantic sales of the desperate, including tapped-out mortgage brokers.   Business is up 20%!
Things are so grim that investors are willing to snap up US Government securities that will be worth less than the amount that the investor put in in the first place.   Reason?  They’re really secure, and [...]

I decided to order a bunch of items for Christmas from Big Chain Store, with outlets nearby, and most of it was for Meredith. In total, the sum was *um* expensive. A couple of the items, which were Nintendo DS games for Mere, the online store said - oh, we don’t have that [...]