Hope and Hygiene

Hope is the thing with feathers.
Always is the thing with wings.

A Punic excuse for a leader...

Last night on the BBC world service, I heard a fleeting reference to this story - briefly, Colonel Qaddafi's son and daughter-in-law were arrested in Switzerland; the charges have been dropped; however, Switzerland hasn't apologized, so Libya has cut off shipments of oil to Switzerland. Boring.

However, what I noticed was that Qaddafi's son is named Hannibal, and he was arrested in the Alps. So immediately I wonder: what were the charges? Possession of elephants? Conspiracy to invade Rome?

Bosch only, please

If you're picky about your cordless tools: "Ne Makita pas..."

j00r l33t sk1llz - not so much...

I heard a great programmer's put-down the other day: "You couldn't program a twenty out of an ATM." (citation needed...)

How's this: "You couldn't program a Republican victory out of a Diebold."

New Memorial to Hawaiian/Indian Solidarity

The Taj Mahalo

Theme song of barbers and butchers...

The Worst Cuts Are the Cheapest

Come on down and eat SOME PIG!

Q: Where did Wilbur the pig really end up?
A: On Charlotte's Weber.

Food article headline

(article about the resurgent popularity of aged beef)
Old Rib-Eye is Back!

Immigrant footwear

Q - What brand of shoes do female agents of the Citizenship and Immigration Service prefer?
A - Naturalizers.

Elemental causes?

Likely source of my headache: although Wind and Fire have died down, there's still too much Earth and not enough Water in the air.

The thing between

Little Johnny is in sex ed class.
He raises his hand: "Teacher, I'm confused - the testes and the prostate, are they the same thing?"
"No, Johnny... there's a vas deferens between them."

The underwear question, resolved?

A few months ago, when Barack Obama clarified that Michelle had never used the word "whitey", it occurred to me: was this his campaign's preemptive answer to "Boxers or Briefs?"

Podiatric penicillin?

Have you heard about the new Progresso Pedicure?
They're calling it "Chicken Soup for the Sole"...