"As if keeping kids under lock and key and helmet and cell phone and nanny and surveillance is the right way to rear kids."

She's right. I see far too many kids who live this life, and you can seem them squinting in the sunshine sometimes, figuratively speaking, once they're out in the real world. I was already riding bicycles and buses wherever I wanted to be at that age (of course, I turned out lousy), but we were allowed to do whatever we pleased unsupervised (we're talking late 60s, early 70s). I look at kids/parents today and it feels like I grew up on another planet.

I always used to find them on the newsstand - folded.

Jaffee's funniest momemnts for me was when the cartoon he was drawing called for dog poop. He'd draw two little link sausages. Funnier than the article.

Where's the superintelligent/gorgeous woman on the team? You know, just like on CSI...Cold Case...Law and Order...NCIS...Every Other Drama...I can't buy into it unless there's some supermodel who would, in real life, be totally out of place!

Sally Kellerman? You've got to be joshing me.

"Tcho?" "Gesundheit!" And at about $40 a pound, I'll have a caviar and filet mignon sandwich instead.

If you like this, I suggest a formidable NBC show from the 1950-51 radio season, Dimension X.

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Dimension_X

You can also find a companion show called X Minus One by searching on archive.org, it came later as network radio flamed out (1957). It's also excellent.

And yes, I am biased towards radio drama, it's a lost art in the United States.

Rubbing apple cider vinegar on affected areas helps minimize the symptoms of shingles, plus it keeps other people away because you smell AWFUL. Trust me - I know.

"We very much support the language in the bill, because we basically wrote it and our chums inserted it sans edit, which requires universities to provide evidence that they have a plan for implementing a technology to address illegal file sharing."

Serious Headline Tip: Use assn. to abbreviate association.

Frivolous headline tip: If an association is doing something stupid, abbreviate it with "ass."

Thank God, being a Royals fan has finally paid off for once! We've had no games worth watching twice for twenty years!

This doesn't make sense. Mac users are generally asexual.

Great post (That's The Way), but Your Time is Gonna Come.

You know, I didn't turn out perfect, but if I show stuff like this to my parents and they start to think how I could have turned out? It gives them a warm feeling.

From eBay:

"I think it would make a really neat resort/camp/retreat facility."

Call me crazy, but an underground concrete bunker has about as much charm as...well...an underground concrete bunker. Unless you hang some rugs on the wall or something.

It may be beautiful in person, but it takes away from the Mystery of Pinball.

Pinball is representative of the Good Old Days, all right. Having squandered most of my misspent youth playing pinball in the 70s and 80s, I really miss it sometimes. It's impossible to find a decently-maintained machine anymore.

Sort of looks like a daytime Ninja outfit.

If Miss South Carolina Teen USA (with her brilliant geography answer) is worried about getting a job, she shouldn't bother. There will always be a place for her.

"I'm sure we'll see all kinds of interesting things in the coming weeks" is the understatement of the year. Torrents don't interest me all that much but Corporate Anti-Piracy Soap Operas? Somebody call Frank and Anne Hummert.

Wait a minute, there are already robots on the moon. Ask Wallace and Gromit.

http://www.curzon.org.uk/images/AardmanMoonRobot.jpg

Now if they could only harness the technology to rid the Internet of lousy comic strips.

"The surly in 'The surly bonds of earth.' "

Oh, man, the cat threw up on the rug.
Where?
Arkansas!
Eh, nobody will notice.

Boy that is beautiful. What child wouldn't want a hearse with its own coffin?

Also: I've talked to a number of funeral directors in my day and I've never met one who didn't have a wonderful sense of humor. I guess you'd have to.