You had me at ‘armed beauty queen’.

Why you should, too: (more…)

You will call and I will answer; you will long for the creature your hands have made. (more…)

It’s more like Lyndon Johnson.

Some fascinating numbers. (more…)

“On January 25, 2010, the National Archives announced in the Federal Register that filming, photographing, and videotaping by the public will be prohibited in all exhibition areas in the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, beginning February 25, 2010. [. . .] In spite of a more than 30-year-old regulation explicitly stating that flash photography was prohibited, prominent signs stating the policy throughout the exhibition areas, and security guards reminding the public, Archives staff estimated that the documents were subjected to approximately 50,000 flashes a year. While enforcement of this policy has always been a National Archives priority, new cameras with automatic flash have made the policy almost impossible to enforce.” (link)

When in need of some convivial potation to cheer my spirits and restore my bold, confident outlook, I have Jeeves bring me a whiskey-and-VDH, without the VDH.

I deny that any mortals can teach the complete doctrine. I deny that any mortals *have* the complete doctrine. (more…)

Ten indications you may have gone over to the Dark Side:    (more…)

Unless I’m reading these charts upside down, the American cost of living is off into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun, toodle-oo, toodle-um. Perhaps its time for Bertram to sojourn in Old Blighty. But dash it, what price the cost of living near Aunt Agatha?

Well, except for that one disagreeable habit …

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat. (more…)

The painless Iowahawk way.

Painless for anyone we actually care about, anyway. The only catch is it only works for the first year.

Pick a modern genre of popular music. Every song in it sounds just like every other song in it. As a sometimes fan of country music, I admit that the country music genre is no exception. But country’s saving grace is that the things country music can be about are the things that can be repeated forever. Country music isn’t what’s written on my heart, but I wouldn’t be ashamed if it were. (more…)

Wisconsin police unions are apparently contacting businesses who supported Governor Walker and threatening to ‘boycott’ them. (more…)