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Someone thought this was a good idea:
Spanish basketball team
What, couldn’t they get a shot of them being 4 feet tall or doing complex math?

By Tom, August 13, 2008, 1:54 pm

David Beckham, “the world’s biggest sports star”, is coming to the U.S. to play for Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Something-or-Other. No, I don’t know who he is either.

By Tom, January 11, 2007, 9:31 am

Needham High School (Massachusetts) has decided to stop publishing the names of kids who make the honor roll in the local paper. The change was proposed by one of the namby-pamby parents (probably a Red Sox fan) who lived with the daily horror of having only one of his three kids on the honor roll.

Great idea, dad! Let’s spend our energy removing recognition from those that earn it rather than motivating the others to succeed. Viva mediocrity!

I have a better idea. Instead of removing the honor roll, lets start publishing the list of employees at the local McDonalds. Then in a few years all of your kids will have had their names in the paper.

By Tom, December 12, 2006, 10:00 am

Towers of Light

Our thoughts and prayers continue to be with our soldiers overseas and their families who miss them. Your sacrifice is necessary and appreciated.

By Tom, September 11, 2006, 1:55 pm

Dan is now a member of the blogosphere. I have deep reservations about his choice of template; he insists that the third dot is “salmon”, but it look’s pretty pink to me. The next thing you know he will be eating his vanilla pudding with a banana.

Here’s a screenshot of it in case he changes the template after reading this.

Dan's pretty webpage

By Tom, March 29, 2006, 11:22 am

It’s not enough that he starved his wife to death. Now he’s using the space on her headstone to continue to tweak her parents. It lists the date of her accident as “departed this earth”, and the date she died as “at peace”. And at the end, “I kept my promise”.


By Tom, June 21, 2005, 1:03 pm
By Tom, February 1, 2005, 9:36 am

A new medical study has determined that people who drink sugar-sweetened drinks are more likely to gain weight and get diabetes. Thank you,

By Tom, August 25, 2004, 10:07 am

Today’s penis amputation story brought to you by Bucharest, Romania.

By Tom, July 20, 2004, 7:14 am

A New York hospital is not sure if the tools they use for colonoscopies and endoscopies were properly disinfected in early May. “The procedures involve inserting a flexible tube through the patient’s mouth or rectum to check the upper or lower digestive system for abnormalities.” I certainly hope that they didn’t use the same tube for both procedures during the “not sure if we disinfected it” time period. For that matter, if I ever require an endoscopy, it would be my preference that they use a tube that has never been inside someone’s rectum, regardless of the amount of disinfectant they use to clean it.

By Tom, June 17, 2004, 10:04 am