bedheadchicken

How is Peggy a nickname for Margaret? Why is Jack a nickname for John? How did Dick come from Richard? Or Ted from Edward? Was someone drunk when these decisions were being made? What's going on here?

Oh, and here's a fun fact: out of the 13,000 FBI agents we have, how many people know even "a few words" of Arabic?

33

How many people...
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Q: How do you separate the men from the boys?

A: The midterm elections.

(I know, I'm sick of Mark Foley too, but whatever)

There hasn't been a good kidnapping in a while. Patty Hearst, the Lindberg baby, Frank Sinatra Jr. Those were some great high profile kidnappings. What's going on? Why have people stopped kidnapping??

Did you know that Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped when he was 19? How embarrassing!

I'm sort of obsessed with our cultural preoccupation with the ass. I'm especially fond of the "ass-kissing" expression. How did ass kissing become the universal expression of trying to curry someone's favor? And why do we even assume that having your ass kissed is something that's universally desired? I know a few people who I would like to literally kiss my ass, but certainly not...
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Have you ever been to Lake Mead? It's right by the Hoover Dam about 20 minutes from central Vegas. It's really beautiful.

I went to Las Vegas for the weekend. I stayed with my friend Heidi, who has a big beautiful boat that she has docked at the marina on the lake there. So we took out her on my first day there, went out...
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I've been a sucky-ass poster lately. I'm going to Vegas this weekend, but I'll be back on Monday and I'll try to write something that's actually interesting.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

I'll be away for a few days, but when I get back I have to tell you about trapeze school.


yes, you heard right.

have a great week. talk to you all soon.

This story in the LA Times today details how LA's finest shoot THEMSELVES as often as they are shot by criminals in the line of duty. Because I can't possibly improving on the paper's language I would like to point out the following paragraphs:

One off-duty officer shot himself in a leg as he sat behind his desk and, according to department records, contemplated "a...
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I saw the best fight in a Papaya King last night. I worked late and didn't get a chance to eat and there's a Papaya King on 37th and 8th (for those of you who have never been to Papaya King they have mysteriously addictive hot dogs. And I know full well how gross hot dogs are).

Anyway, when I get there a long line...
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I'm old.

I can remember when there were only 3 channels + PBS. I remember when ONE family in our town had HBO and we'd all go over to watch on Friday night and we thought hearing a curse on TV was insane.

I remember gas shortages in the late 70's when we had to go wait on line for hours to fill up the...
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