Humor

Ah, Christmas weekend. A great thing, and the Tuesday Christmas is the best. I've informally polled my friends around town, and more than half of them aren't working Monday or their offices (like mine) are closed. It's a four-day weekend, so we get the

Received in the mail: The Father Brown Reader [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976638673/thedailyeudem-20]. Looks perfect for people who want some GKC (or want to introduce their children to GKC) without the occasionally-daunting GKC prose. Based on what I read, Nancy Carpentier Brown has done a nice

One of the best pieces I've seen on the new atheists is a blog post at Fox News. Check it out [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308183,00.html]. Excerpts: > The anti-God movement involves vacuuming the world of the outrageous idea – yes, that slavish, medieval,

"The Atlanta International Airport is now considering shorter flushes in its bathrooms to help cope with the drought. Shorter flushes on their toilets. Or as Sen. Larry Craig calls that, speed dating."

Don't live here: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles. [http://news.

All sorts of linkable material at Drudge right now: School plans to offer pill to middle school girls, and state law allows the girls to get it without parental consen [http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=140910&ac=PHnws] t (the confluence of demographics led to this result:

Abby's Queer Eye Abby has come out strongly in favor of the gay movement [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_re_us/dear_abby_gay_marriage]. Nothing post-worthy, since I've long considered her too vapid to swim against the political current and therefore

The temperature was mild and skies sunny. I couldn't resist the temptation to hit the drinking club. Leaving the office at 3:30, I took a folder of work and sat on the patio with a tall Oberon. I only worked for about 20 minutes, but I drank

I don't know if my wits are turned off ("Hey, Scheske, they're always off!") or if the stories on Internet are simply lame. Virtually nothing struck me as post-worthy (and it's not like I set the highest standards or anything). There are