Drome Without a Home
Mar 18What should these things be called? They’re not palindromes, but they’re like palindromes’ second cousins or something. “Homodrome” and “isodrome” are already taken (and the latter is prohibited in the u.s. navy). Got each? Go teach! Daredevil dared evil. He rode her ode. We tore wet ore. We stole or ate west oleo rate. Heh! [...]
Dixie Street Cred
Mar 15“I had catfish for the second time. It was delicious, just like the first time.” – Mitt Romney “And I’m really enjoying this so called … ‘iced cream.’” – Montgomery Burns
Missed It By Just One Planet
Mar 10As Burroughs readers will recognise (though you don’t need to be a Burroughs reader to spot two moons too many for Venus), this Frazetta scene is supposed to illustrate one of Burroughs’ Mars stories, not this Venus story: On the other hand, the following scene, clearly intended for one of Burroughs’ Venus stories, is being [...]
Famous Blue Raincoat
Mar 07A while ago I started using “Socks” and “Caps” as shorthand for social anarchists and anarcho-capitalists respectively. But then I drifted away from it, mainly because there seemed to be no useful article-of-clothing shorthand for us lefty individualist types in the middle. But there is! “Mack” (or “Mac,” but I’d prefer to avoid the association [...]
Señales Mixtas
Feb 29I just saw an ad in which ethnic-cleansing governor Jan Brewer was inviting people to “come to Arizona.” Muchas gracias por la bienvenida, Señora Brewer.
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