"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."

                --Archilochus

Glenn Reynolds:
"Heh."

Barack Obama:
"Impossible to transcend."

Albert A. Gore, Jr.:
"An incontinent brute."

Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
"God damn the Gentleman Farmer."

Friends of GF's Sons:
"Is that really your dad?"

Kickball Girl:
"Keeping 'em alive until 7:45."

Hired Hand:
"I think . . . we forgot the pheasant."




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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Identifying as inter-league: Just say no.

NEW YORK—Offering a “safe and accepting environment for those who feel they have nowhere to go,” officials from Major League Baseball announced Thursday the formation of The Outfield, a new support group for players who identify as inter-league.

More HERE.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Manly, burly men

A new study ". . . found that one hour of tree chopping resulted in a 48 per cent increase in salivary testosterone levels in all men, regardless of age or state of health. By contrast levels increased by only 30.1 per cent during a soccer game."


While you're worrying about the Government watching you online . . . .

. . . you really ought to be worried about the Government watching you.


What was lost, now is found

"It's crummy to sneak into a 90-year-old widow's home in the dead of night and steal her Lorax."

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Earlier today a White House spokesman said that images of Syrian rebels allegedly killed by chemical weapons are "nothing short of horrifying," and that the United States is "appalled" by the reports.

July, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:


Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Is the Washington Post trying to tell us something?



"Phrases at the end of news stories for 1,000, Alex"

Old: "Alcohol was involved."

New: ". . . word got out when they discovered he was seeing other students behind their backs."

You've never heard of Eydie Gormé . . .

. . . which makes you an idiot. She died last week.


Mrs. Clinton arriving in Cleveland . . .

. . . to address the American Fruit Salad Association.

"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

Elmore Leonard, author of 45 novels (26 of which were made into movies or television shows), has died.  He was 87.  "No one laughs in my books."  There's almost always a gun, and there's always a girl.