Jib Jab is back at it
Join us at Maid-Rite
I think y’all know how we feel about Maid-Rite. There are some who question the deliciousness of the loose-meat sandwich. They live too far from Greenville, Ohio to savor a real Maid-Rite, so I forgive them. I invite you to come along with us to Maid-Rite.
Brookville, Ohio
Mr. Red
Amazing horsemanship
Blow torch. Just because.
The search for Cindy’s Loch Ness poop
No poop, but I found this:
With the weekend upon us, someone will find this information useful.
Dear clusterflock
I’m changing the subject.
Poop (that always works)
Men’s room mural
Here’s one for Michael Grant-Smith
AP Stylebook No Longer “Mentally Retarded”
via Gawker
Journo-nerds rejoice: the AP Stylebook has been updated! It’s the Bible of all that is considered acceptable in middle American newsrooms, and, like middle America itself, is consistently several years behind the times. So what changes can you look forward to in tomorrow’s edition of the Mattoon Journal Gazette? More text messaging, less malarkey, and no more retarded people!
The Hidden Half
This is so difficult to comprehend.
Self-immolation has long been the preferred method of suicide in Afghanistan, but “the trend is upward,” says Ancil Adrian-Paul of the women’s nonprofit Medica Mondiale. Girls as young as nine set themselves ablaze, typically with cooking oil. In Herat Province, where last year 90 women lit themselves on fire, Zahra spent 93 days in the burn unit. Her husband beat her regularly, told her she was worthless and should just light a match. So she did. She is, by some accounts, lucky: More than 70 percent of victims of self-immolation do not survive.
and yet… Read more
for Sheila
I’ll see your Everlys and raise you a litter of Osmonds
Cover shot
Dear clusterflock
Who should initiate sex: man or woman? Read more
Boss-speak Bingo
50 office-speak phrases you love to hate
33. “I once had a boss who said, ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it, so you have to step up to the plate and face the music.’ It was in that moment I knew I had to resign before somebody got badly hurt by a pencil.”
Tim, Durban44. “I was told I’d be living the values from now on by my employers at a conference the other week. Here’s some modern language for them - meh. A shame as I strongly believe in much of what my employers aim to do. I refuse to adopt the voluntary sectors’ client title of ’service user’. How is someone who won’t so much as open the door to me using my service? Another case of using four syllables where one would do.”
Upscaled Blue-Sky thinker, Cardiff
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Koi
Last night at the Gilbert’s party
Hu’s in China?
Pie in the sky
That’s bright!
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT FOR PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH
Resolved, that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against President George W. Bush for high crimes and misdemeanors.
In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power.
(65 page PDF file)
Beaver stuffing kit
They say than men think about stuffing beavers every few minutes. The good news is that you can satisfy your cravings quickly and easily with this Beaver Stuffing Kit. Just squeeze a bunch of white stuffing into the beaver and it will be fat and fluffy before you know it. Keep it for yourself, give it as a gift, or show off that stuffed beaver to your friends and proudly proclaim “I did this. I stuffed this beaver up good.”
Actually, the nonist is a very cool blog
check out the nonist
(begging forgiveness for the Mildred post)
Whatever Happened To Mildred Simmons?
FOX Ambushes Bill Moyers; Journalists Ambush FOX
Moyers disputes FOX’s “facts” for the record and asks to interview someone at The O’Reilly Factor about Rupert Murdoch and the show’s coverage during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The journalist crowd then reacts, chasing down Barry and intentionally giving him a dose of FOX-style bullying reportage.