Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXVIII
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s not even 9 am.
I hear that Punxsutawney Phil has been officially cited by the IPCC as evidence of a worsening climate.
-Iain Murray
Categories: Science and Nature
Ahhh, 2010
Not that it’s actually the end of the decade (that’s next year but why be pedantic hey?), but oh what a decade it’s been. I started it out in college, moved to the East Coast, moved in with Peter, graduated college, moved to Seattle, had the bottom fall out of my life’s goals, started a [...]
Categories: Wildcard
Your Christmas Compendium
The Telegraph – The Christmas donkey starts on the way home<br/> Truth, light, love – these are things that anyone, Christian or not, rejoices to find at home.
[F]or everyone finds sooner or later that we are none of us quite at home. Christmas is homely with the children, but the children grow up and [...]
Categories: History
The Pope’s Sidekick
Times Online – Pope Benedict XVI knocked to floor during Christmas Eve Mass
Reverend Benedettini said the woman who pushed the Pope appeared to be mentally unstable and had been arrested by Vatican police.
The pope’s spokesman is called Benedettini? Pope Benedict and Reverend Benedettini? That’s adorable!
Categories: People and Current Events
It's So Nice Here
Just look at that blue sky. 70°. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
Categories: Science and Nature
One Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty Five Consecutive Days, One Day Late, a Couple Days Short
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of this blog. Usually, uncannily, I remember after not thinking about it for weeks, like a bolt from the heavens, “What’s the date today?!” This year I kept remembering and, thinking I was totally on top of it, totally forgot yesterday. I was really busy, that’s why.
Anyway, It hasn’t been [...]
Categories: Wildcard
11.11 at 11
Today we Americans celebrate Veteran’s Day by thanking the living (because of a quirk having to do with us getting to our Civil War before the Europeans got to WWI) while the rest of the world remembers the dead. We’ve done a lot of remembering the dead even in this country lately, so I thought [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Hah, I Knew It, or: They Probably Couldn't Guarantee Him a Teleprompter
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall<br/>
So the US delegation to commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of European Communism is Hillary Clinton and David Hasselhoff.
Telegraph Blogs – Nile Gardiner: Barack Obama’s shameful absence from Berlin: Four Key Reasons why the President stayed away
Barack Obama was quick [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Child of the 80s Remembers the Berlin Wall
National Post – Conrad Black: Centuries in the making
In the only place where heavily armed Soviet and American soldiers had faced each other in the Cold War, at the world-famous Berlin checkpoints, there was now an immense flow of traffic, and thousands of people tearing down the wall, as U.S. leaders from John [...]
Categories: History
Ohh, That's Unfortunate
Headline, Times Online: Uproar as city of Berlin blocks U2 fans from ‘1989 freedom’ gig with a… wall
Categories: Entertainment
Good Old U2
At least somebody’s celebrating.
BBC – U2 to play Brandenburg Gate gig
U2 are to perform a free concert at the Brandenburg Gate to mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The 5 November gig will form part of the MTV Europe Music Awards in the German capital and [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Today Is United Nations Day!
*Update:**
RC2 has a real post on possible festive celebrations for this august day:
Wheat & Weeds – How Shall We Celebrate?
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
That One, Minus One
Categories: Wildcard
Oh Bonfire, Obon Festival
Every year around this time of August I think wistfully back to the day in 1998 when, over at my cousins’ house in Palo Alto one summer’s afternoon, they announced they were going to walk over to the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple for the Obon Festival. I had no idea there was a Buddhist Temple [...]
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXII
Telegraph – Hunting, shooting and fishing with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s man of action << Click here to view the full album!
I think the news room was in hysterics when they wrote these captions.
Categories: Politics