The Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts, 70-year old Harvey Ruvin, seems to have a, er, gift. Witness, as he raps about the dangers of global warming, war, and so forth:

Yes, that video was done by a 70-year old politician. He’s also up for re-election, and making the environment central to his campaign.
Apparently, his campaign is both [...]

Filed under: humor, news, politics on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

Some of you might have seen this video last week, wherein a walking stereotype of a woman verbally assaults a little old lady on an Atlanta subway by, among other things, reciting lyrics to “Crank That Solja Boy”. Really.

Well, now it appears the woman referred to across the internets as “Solja Girl” (for her knack [...]

Filed under: humor, news on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

As anyone who frequents Craigslist knows, the Missed Connections section is quite possibly one of the best ways online to laugh at losers in your very own neighborhood. Sure, one might hope these posts are jokes, lest humanity be that pathetic. These are just a few posts I found from my area (Orlando) on a [...]

Filed under: humor on May 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

When I learned that water polo was not, in fact, an underwater version of regular polo, I became very disappointed. Gone were the visions I’d had of players riding atop oxygen tank-wearing horses at the bottom of an Olympic size swimming pool and swinging at a ball around the pool’s surface ever so slowly with [...]

Filed under: humor, thoughts on April 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

When designing a layout, one usually uses placeholder images to get a better idea of where every piece of content will go. The placeholder images are not a part of the final product, so the quality and content isn’t especially important. That is, unless one happens to forget to replace the placeholder image with the [...]

Filed under: advertising, humor on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, The Longest List of the Longest Stuff at the Longest Domain Name At Long Last lists the world’s longest cat as being a mere 4′ long. I’m pretty sure they’ve never heard of Longcat, then. I’d link a photo, but then you’d have to scroll until the end of time.

Filed under: humor on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I came across this post, which basically said what I’d been thinking since Battlestar Galactica first started: that John McCain and Col. Tigh might just be the same man.
Let’s compare the two, shall we?

Col. Tigh
John McCain

Bald old dude?
Yes
Yes

Grilzzled war hero?
Yes
Yes

Tortured?
Yes
Yes

Has younger, blond wife?
Yes
Yes

Once-maverick, slipping in his old age?
Yes
Yes

Drunk?
No*
Yes

Cylon?
???
Yes

Those are just the similarities I can [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »

So, I’m minding my own business, reading Slate, and see one of those “family killed by ninjas, need money for karate lessons” pictures off to the right of the page. Then, I see it is an advertisement for life insurance. Oh, and the article in question was about John McCain visiting Mo Udall on his [...]

Filed under: advertising, humor, news on April 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

So, I happened across an clip from a George W Bush interview wherein he talks about the music he has on his iPod. Presumably, he has an iPod Shuffle as well, but that was not the model shown in the clip. At any rate, the bit toward the end was classic. Were it Jerry speaking [...]

Filed under: humor, politics on April 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

I can’t go a day without seeing at least one obnoxious chain-mail type of survey on Myspace. Once, I actually used to fill these out. I don’t remember why. Now, I just ignore the content of the questions and write a bunch of nonsense as a response. It’s much more entertaining that way.
Can YUO answering [...]

Filed under: humor on February 6th, 2008 | 1 Comment »