I figured out how to put the little clown dude in the header, but I think I need to post something to update the cache. Here goes…

Now that we have embraced Ceremonial Deism, our spiritual lives have improved 9-fold. Christmas was especially good this year. We don’t usually bother much with prezzies apart from a little something for the kids but this year we decided to … Continue reading →

Since I am now getting several thousand spam comments  a day I am trying out a new plugin to deal with them. Akismet provides a service where you send them all your comments and it tells you whether they are … Continue reading →

Both Tom and Jeff sent me links to Ted talks last week. I just watched Jeff’s one: We Must Win The Oil End Game It’s must see-TV. Even if you are not interested in oil or science or politics, go … Continue reading →

According to Paul Krugman in today’s NY Times, In a 1963 essay for Ms. Rand’s newsletter, Mr. Greenspan dismissed as a “collectivist” myth the idea that businessmen, left to their own devices, “would attempt to sell unsafe food and drugs, … Continue reading →

My lovely wife sent me this: Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. … Continue reading →

Oh! Hai! Every now and then something finds exactly the right spot on my funny bone and I laugh and laugh and laugh. There something about Absurdist Humour in the Monty Python (“Where is that fish?”), League of Gentlemen (“Those … Continue reading →

Nick Clegg has just been elected leader of the LibDems over in the old country and during a radio interview: Asked whether he had ever taken illegal drugs, he replied: “I’m going to cast a veil over that. It’s the … Continue reading →

Child #2 to her mother: Why do old people have to wear underwear that shows their butts?

For the second time in a week, I have written a post that I have deleted in an act of self-censorship. A little while ago, Paul Graham had an essay about all those things that you are not allowed to … Continue reading →