Monthly Archives: December 2004

Another reason for the Internet to exist

For all your mid-length haircut image needs: The Celebrity Pageboy

No choice at all

One of the local TV stations trailed a piece for the 10 o’clock news. Naturally I’m going to comment without having actually watched the program, but that doesn’t seem to adversely affect most bloggers, so… The terrifying dilemma facing the residents of Minnesota, they probably breathlessly reported, is that the Vikings are playing the Packers [...]

Reality Bites

A couple of days ago I accidentally saw a trailer for ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (I’m not providing links; I don’t want to encourage you). Now I’m a fan of reality TV. In the UK some years ago there was an excellent show that took you behind the scenes at Heathrow airport. You were [...]

Things they didn’t teach you in high school

I don’t remember this coming up in French class: Saint-Nicolas has a partner, Le Père Fouettard, Father Spanker, whose job it is to decide whether children have been good or bad and ‘reward’ bad children with a spanking!

Next Week: “World Hunger, or a case of the Munchies?”

From our respected President: “There’s a trade deficit. That’s easy to resolve: People can buy more United States products if they’re worried about the trade deficit.” He’s right, of course. Kinda.