That minor league baseball is much better than major league baseball: The Top 20 Minor-League Promotional Stunts. courtesy Fark

So my appendicitis recovery has hit a snag. I’ve had this minor complication, which, while not painful or threatening, is a) kind of gross and b) turning into a(nother) major pain in the ass. I’m not going to go into details, because the details, frankly, are disgusting. The consequence of the details, however, is that ...

There’s nothing particularly interesting going on with me. Still healing and such, but I figured I should at least continue to provide links to a few things that actually are amusing: – As Eddie Izzard put it when arguing for the Transvestite Brigade of the American military, “The key element in battle is the element ...

You can actually mock people for once.

That‘s not a tornado, mate. This is a tornado.

I’m sort of glad my Vicodin is about to run out. Not because of its painkilling properties…those I’m decidedly gonna miss. The problem is that it’s been screwing with my memory so badly, I need to get off it. I’ve been pretty much stoned for the last week, I realized. Just poppin’ the pills to ...

To Cowshit Lane. As the local council chairman in the story puts it, “I only wish I lived there because I could put it on my headed notepaper.” courtesy Fark

You know, I’ve thought a lot of the things I’ve had to do to care for my various incisions over the past couple of months have been embarassing, painful, sometimes even downright stupid. But today, I think we got a winner for the most ridiculous. After essentially spray-gluing a bunch of strips of some sort ...

I’m sorry, I know he did a prestigious stint in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, but there is nothing sillier than George W. Bush in a flight suit. And you just know when he was flying that jet, he was making “Neeeeeeeeeeeeerow! Vwhooooooooooosh!” noises. He just has that look on his ...

Will The Real Saddam Please Stand Up? courtesy Dave Barry