Posted 4/27/2012 05:49:00 PM by Douglas

Do we need more than the headline on this one:

Strippers say accused pimp 'Jell-O' is innocent

Oh, Jell-O, didn't you learn anything from Santa Clause? Even he stopped after 3 HOs. . .

Posted 4/25/2012 05:51:00 PM by Douglas

P.J. O'Rourke just keeps getting better and better the older and drunker he gets. Enter this round of making fun of the adult man-child that sill wears shorts.

When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me—when I was an 8-year-old. They’re in shorts and T-shirts. And it’s not just on airplanes. It’s in business offices, teachers’ lounges, and churches.

Yeah, there's really no reason for a grown man to dress like Dennis the Menace. His last line nails it:

And (we’re not getting younger) you can’t go to the grave wearing shorts and a T-shirt, either. The one place where a dress code reliably obtains is among morticians. You will be wearing a suit when you’re dead.

If your family and friends have never seen you in a suit before, there’s a chance that you’ll be mistaken for the funeral director. You really don’t want people leaning over your casket, asking, “How much is this costing us?”

Time to put on some big-boy pants!

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Posted 4/21/2012 02:45:00 PM by Douglas

Why is it that when the federal government steps in to make something more affordable, the price ends up going through the roof? This guy takes a shot at housing and college education, but I think you could throw health care in there, too. So why not use it to drive up the price of illegal drugs?

That got me thinking, what would the government do if it wanted to price most consumers out of the market? What would it take for government to make cocaine prohibitively expensive for most people?

It's not as silly as it sounds to anyone paying attention to the drug war, and I'm sure the usual chorus of anti-drug people would flip out, but what's really funny is that most people that currently use illegal drugs would hate for their drugs to become legal. It would make it immensely more difficult to get.

Posted 4/10/2012 05:12:00 PM by Douglas

My dog has no nose!

How does it smell?

TERRIBLE!

Posted 4/10/2012 05:10:00 PM by Douglas

Here's an interesting twist to free speech: NOT forcing workers to pay union dues violates the union's free speech:

Attorneys for the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 argue in a court brief that Indiana's new law, which allows workers to not pay union dues even if a union bargains on their behalf, interferes with the union's free speech rights and "impinges on this fundamental right of union membership."

I'm not 100% sure this argument didn't come from our friends at The Onion.