This Will Look Good on Your Office Wall
What an honor! A select group of lucky doctors is getting a personal invitation from Newt Gingrich and — that’s not all. If you call today you’ll get a genuine plaque, good while supplies last. With the promise of proximity to power and the allure of mutually shared disgust for Obamacare, the invitation is framed [...]
A Scene
You know how you might go out to hear some music, not expecting much out of the ordinary, and realize you have walked into something that gives the universe a little shake? That was how I felt at the first Florentine Faire on Thayer St. in ancient times. And that was the vibe again at [...]
Doc, Can You Remove This Knife From My Back?
I wonder if GOProud is having any second thoughts about inviting Ann Coulter to speak at Homocon, a convention for gay libertarians and conservatives. She did lecture them about presuming to aspire to legal marriage. Read between the lines here– you’ll note that no Black gay Republican emerged from the crowd to contradict her… But [...]
All Our Readers Will Ace This Test
ProJo.com is running a MENSA practice test. I got six out of ten, and it only took me a half hour and 2 pieces of paper.
Local Pride
Edesia, a Rhode Island company, makes a special high-nutrition peanut butter called Plumpy’nut that is saving children’s lives in places like earthquake- struck Haiti. Must feel good going to work there. Edesia was profiled in the New York Times, and you can also read about them in the Providence Phoenix.
Special Privileges
You can count on Kmareka for free speech. Until we quit our day jobs for the easy money and glamour of blogging our speech is 100% filthy lucre-free. Campaigning, on the other hand, costs millions. TV, billboards, radio, annoying junkmail, face to face with politicians, chicken in a function room with the party faithful– that [...]
Fun de Mental (x 10)
How are you feeling today? Tense? Tentative? Tender? I ask because of the uniqueness of the date. It’s 10/10/10. The tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the century. Isn’t that intenth? Twice today, unless you’re on military time, it will be 10:10 on 10/10/10. Outside of the Playboy Mansion, where [...]
Is This a Hoax?
You have to watch out these days, so much of that going on. Anyway, Talking Points Memo reports that in Canadian supermarkets Campbells Soup is selling Halal versions of such favorites as Vegetarian Vegetable (sounds pretty safe). Apparently, a vocal corner of the net thinks that Campbell’s attempt to sell soup to observant Muslims should [...]
On The Menu
Yesterday, while unwinding from work, I found myself plopped on the couch watching a rerun of Family Guy. The episode was a takeoff of the 1982 film, “Poltergeist,” and was entitled “Petergeist.” (For you non-viewers of this subversively—and sometimes inappropriately—funny animated comedy, Peter is the family patriarch.) In one scene, upon finding themselves homeless and [...]
Sad News
Autumn has arrived. The air is cooler, the leaves are turning, and the baseball regular season has concluded. Sadly for many New Englanders, the Boston Red Sox failed to make the playoffs. In the grand scheme of things, it is a minor disappointment, one that will weigh the heart only briefly. Other news is considerably [...]
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