The Vespa scooter is a work of art, no doubt… but there’s no reason why one of these:

Should cost as much as eight dozen of these:

Some clove-smoking, horn-rimmed glasses wearing hipster is getting punched today.

I recently learned this from a friend… if you ever need to kill mice, use the following things as your toolkit:

The first step in sculpting something in clay is to fucking stare at the clay for days.

Weird Al is better than any and everyone else, ever. Even better than Liberace.
Having said that, I was recently reminded that Al presented me with a slight problem… not his, mine. Al’s fine. The problem that I have is two fold…
1. I tend to listen to his music until way past the point where the [...]

I think planes are neat but I really hate flying… lucky for me, Amtrak exists. I’m pretty sure it’s the only civilized form of transportation left in this country (commuter blimps would be pretty cool though… I’m guessing that slow-stroking mile-highers might take over blimping if it ever became fashionable again).
Anyway, some things to know… [...]

Over 21,000 more troops are about to be sent into the meat grinder that we call Iraq… against the better judgment of not only the majority Dems, but most Senate Republicans as well. Shit, while we’re at it, let’s not forget that this idea was also dooky’d on by several high-level Generals (most of whom [...]

In the kitchen of an office somewhere, a miniature Jesus is being crucified among multiple memos and take out menus:

…I’m not Miffed-Off-Mr.-Offended-Atheist, either. Frankly, I find this display to be twice as awesome as a cold beer on Friday, but only 75% as cool as this: