Balderdash

God, I feel so violated.

Someone posted a less funny version of the following on her LJ, so I feel obliged to share the better version. Thank god people stopped send...

Trying hard to forestall the rot "Most notably, there was a near-complete shut-out of Singapore campaigners from the newspaper. Althoug...

Outnumbered by the Vandal horde 5 to 1 though they were, the valiant defenders of the Eastern Roman Empire gave their lives dearly. In their...

Screwed Up Girl's Birthday-cum-Christmas Party invitation: "If you like, come dressed as a Lord or Lady or Knight in shining armour...

The Inheritance of Inequality , Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (2002), linked from Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal "How level is...

"I forget who it was who remarked: 'Of course we must be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.'" -...

At about 2pm today, Tym smsed me and asked if I was going for some History seminar at NUS convened in the wake of the recent seditious Disc...

University of Pennsylvania Evolutionary Psychologist Visits UNL "Like Dr. Hibbing at the last "brownbag," Dr. Kurzban complai...

"Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec." - J. Hart Random playlist song: Aaron Waters - Go Fly W...

Earn filthy lucre! Job: Make outbound... [ Update : Due to overwhelming response (and the end of hiring season), the ad has been taken down....

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." - Benjamin Disraeli *** I donated half a Euro via Paypal to the D...

I aver that Kettle brand (Australian, not American) Herb and Spice flavour potato chips must be one of the best flavours ever. First you adm...

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." - Edgar Bergen *** Someone : "to us girls, law is a congl...

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." - Oscar Wilde...

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France *** I...

Expat junkies, dealer, get their fix then fall into net "One by one, they made their way to the home of the woman who headed the drug s...

Public entry in my guestbook: "hello. I just got routed to your blog from a search I was doing. curious, I clicked on your "how gi...

The power is in the post, not in the deity One popular argument used by non-theologians when they engage in theodicy (reconciling an omniben...

"Man is conceived of blood made rotten by the heat of lust; and in the end worms, like mourners, stand about his corpse. In life he pr...