Jack Norris

"I'd like to suggest what some might consider a worst-case scenario for an Obama administration -- but one that will seem all too plausible to anyone who is familiar with the ideology and techniques of the Left." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

That's is TOO funny! Read the whole thing folks... Best comment "The really sad thing? Within a week I expect to find this in my inbox, unattributed, as an e-mail forward from one of my paranoid right-wing relatives. With some kind of breathless subject heading about "Obama's Secret Plot Against America!" or something." - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

omg, perfect. absolutely perfect. - Chieze Okoye

"One recent afternoon a line formed on the sidewalk outside the school. Dozens of people were waiting for impromptu private therapy sessions, on a leopard-spotted chaise longue, with David Gale, an actor who described himself as a "nonpsychotherapist." Strangers revealed their secrets to him anyway. It may all sound like a big metaprank, but the school is perfectly sincere. The ambition is to offer a road map to a fuller life - secular and interior, not religious - toward which end a sense of humor helps." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

"Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organizers and participants said, culminating years of preparation." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

crazy people - Cee Bee

"“The opportunity for kids to get in touch with where their food comes from is getting rarer and rarer, so the experience will become more precious,” said Heidi Fish of Alger, who was with her niece at the 10th annual Skagit Valley Festival of Family Farms." - Ruth Ferguson via Bookmarklet

"The big "buzz" here is of course John McCain's choice for running mate: Sarah Palin, who has been governor of Alaska for two years, before which she was mayor of the Alaskan city of Wasilla, which has the same total number of households as John McCain." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Excellent post Jim - Dave Barry at his best! - Jack Norris

"Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

"Council chiefs in Birmingham were left red-faced when they mistakenly used a picture of their U.S. namesake in Alabama on thousands of official leaflets." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

This is fascinating. - LiquidLag via Bookmarklet

"This week’s feature is a bacon alarm clock, the cleverly named Wake n’ Bacon, that wakes you up with the smell of real cooked bacon, rather than the traditional, grating, cruel, terrible, gruesome alarm-clock sound." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

LOL, one would quickly come to hate bacon. :P - Tanath

"The "The Good, the Bad, the Weird," which cost $17 million to produce, is about three Koreans - a bounty hunter, a bandit, and a train robber - who battle for a valuable map in Manchuria, an area of northeast China, during the Japanese occupation of the 1930s." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

"Indeed, for the first time since the women's movement came to life, an economic recovery has come and gone, and the percentage of women at work has fallen, not risen, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

Not encouraging statistics for our daughters starting their careers . . . guess no early retirement for us Anne :-) - Jack Norris

"A 75th-birthday bash for wrestling icon Capt. Lou Albano turned into a real-life "Wrestlemania" event when "The Sandman" allegedly got drunk and went berserk - and "The Zombie" and "Pitbull" struggled to restrain him as a SWAT team was called in." - hunter walk via Bookmarklet

I especially liked the pop-up that came with this... "The Dumb Test". - Erin

"If you didn't know better, you'd think the whole thing had been staged." hmmm . . . ya think? - Jack Norris

@ Anne: we could do this! - Jack Norris

Where's the Hello Kitty armbands? - Jack Norris

Very strange - some of these solutions, especially the airplane sleeping gas system, seem as scary as the threat. - Jack Norris

Link of the weekend - I'm ordering up my self contained potty bio-hazard suit now so i don't miss a minute of the big game with annoying bathroom runs. - Steve Craft

"In a country where the discussion of some social and cultural issues, like homosexuality, can be all but taboo, drug addiction has been widely acknowledged as a serious problem. It is talked about openly in schools and on television. Posters have encouraged people to think of addiction as a disease and to seek treatment." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

"We don't want to fight addicts; we want to fight addiction. We need to manage addiction." - Anne Bouey

So glad to see such progressive and positive measures by the government to treat widespread addiction and co-morbidities (HIV) in Iran. Needle exchange programs and methadone treatment are a good start. I understand Iran now has >40,000 members in NA - there is hope. - Jack Norris

When I click on the link - I get The Beach Boys video "California Girls" - I was tired of that song in the '60's and would like to read the article - help?! Or am I just missing something obvious here? - Jack Norris

@Jack Scroll up above the video. - Anne Bouey

why? - Anne Bouey

what's happening in "The Show Me State?" - Jack Norris

"OMG I MUST KNOW EVERYTHING MY DAUGHTER IS DOING AT EVERY SECOND"-mom and dad - Kelly Norris

@Kelly - yep, looks like Kristin tried to slip a deep breath past them. :) - Steve Craft

"Suddenly you couldn't turn on your TV without seeing some guy doing something incredibly retarded and dangerous with a Mountain Dew logo pasted on him." What could be more fun than that? - Jack Norris

"Today, despite it tasting like piss mixed with orange drink, Mountain Dew is the most popular soft drink after Coke and Pepsi." - Anne Bouey

tiger!!! - Jessie via Bookmarklet

chloe!!! - Steve Craft

"While the older and much better established Darwin had undoubtedly been thinking about evolution and collecting voluminous data, up to that moment he had not published a single word on the subject. Wallace, on the other hand, had written several papers on evolution prior to the Ternate Paper, including the 1855 Sarawak Law, which stated the now obvious principle that "Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species." Did Darwin plagiarize Wallace?" - Jessie via Bookmarklet

Great article Jessie - Jack Norris

Avanoo is one of the greatest places on teh internets - Marcos Messer

Awesome find Anne. I'm bookmarking this on my YouTube account! - Soup

matt stole my dance moves. - Kelly Norris

"It should come as no surprise that the thing about saving the environment that politicians and companies like the most involves more spending and new industries. Everyone toss out your eco-hostile cars (at five years old, they’re an embarrassment) and buy “green” models fresh off the factory line. You can boost consumption and feel like you made a difference." - Jessie via Bookmarklet

"Never mention emissions and export growth in the same sentence. But if one must, then use the term “sustainable development” and hope the audience is incapable of critical thinking . . . "More symbolism and less substance, please. It is imperative that you join the campaign to shift the environmental debate away from our pursuit of unchecked consumption and onto token gestures." - Jack Norris

Great game. Pretty sure it wasn't the best ever though, not having Jordan, Magic, or Byrd in it. :) - Chris White

I love the use of brackets in quotes... and through the clever use of said brackets, I will quote Chris Reed: "[Greatest game]ever." - Rob Reed

As they say its not over until its over! - Syed F Ahmad

Excellent!!! Reminds me of my early years watching tv test patterns - with a much better sound track! 4 stars! - Jack Norris