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DO YOUR DUTY FOR THE NATION

Procreation for a Better Australia (YouTube)

SALVAGING BUSH’S REPUTATION

Two weeks after the flood, with much of the city still under water, Mr Bush stood in Jackson Square and announced a visionary manifesto for reconstruction, promising “this great city will rise again” adding even more ambitiously: “We will build higher and better.”

Twelve months on, the people of New Orleans are asking who he meant […]

WELL, THAT SOUNDS FAIR

Q: A white man from a prominent Boston-area family is convicted of beating two black teenage girls with a metal rod while shouting racial slurs at them. What’s his sentence?

A: Community service and a trip to a museum.

LET’S PRETEND WE DON’T EXIST

Of Montreal, “Wraith Pined to the Mist” (YouTube, via Coudal)

Band website

WEENIE-TINI

Over the years, I’ve tried various sorts of infusions, with vodka and other liquors. Fruit and herb-infused are the best known, and are often wonderful. But what I like is meat. Where’s the infusion for people like me? I felt disenfranchised, and alone, especially after some research on the interwebs revealed a real lack of […]

CHINA’S EURO-MUMMIES

Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man’s hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he stood six feet tall, and was buried wearing a red twill tunic and tartan leggings. He looks like […]

OLD SOLDIERS

Ed Stein, Rocky Mountain News
(Thanks, Horace!)
Related:

‘Back-door draft’ shakes the military
More than 1,700 soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are over 55
Old Soldiers Do Die
Marines get short end of stick in Iraq ‘fiasco’

Also, check out this podcast featuring Horace Coleman.

KNIT A PIRATE DICE BAG

… and then stab yourself in the head* with a cheap cutlass. Or a pricey one, if you prefer!

Knit a pirate dice bag (Craftzine)
Bonus links:

Captain Morgan: Calvin Klein of the high seas (Stanford Daily)
Pirate Drink Recipes
What is grog? (Straight Dope staff report)
Drunken pirate runs for Congress

* Instructions for making a cutlass holder for ease in […]

PRANKSTER GIRL

Little Becky (Dublin 98 FM, via Arbroath)
Little Becky phones the Dublin Zoo

WORD OF THE DAY

glurge (GLURJ) n. A sentimental or uplifting story, particularly one delivered via e-mail, that uses inaccurate or fabricated facts; a story that is mawkish or maudlin; the genre consisting of such stories.

Because my current editing project is utterly glurgetastic. It’s choked with glurge. Please kill me now.
For far too many examples of glurge, visit Glurge.com. […]