From the spam folder:
Hello, I am following up on your request for last week.
That’s right, “Latasha Locke,” I want all of last week. If you can’t deliver, I’ll be forced turn to some of your porno-named competitors: Sofia Sierra, Halcyone Needham, Stephine. Or maybe “buzltyr. ” To infinity and beyond.
While waiting for last week to […]

What is Bush going to do here?
Bush to Emark on Eight-Day Trip to Asia
I was kind of disappointed when I realized the NYT just meant ‘embark.’ I thought maybe emarkation with some cool thing you could do with an e-meter or something.

. . . goes to ME!
For my environmentally conscious letter to the Mountain View Voice (scroll to the bottom).
Write a letter to your local paper today. You can be more like me, schoolchildren, and old people.

According to a website about concussions:
Approximately 144,000 Canadians (or 1.5 million Americans) will receive a complex concussion each year.
It’s good to know how many Americans make up a Canadian.

Today Gawker lambasts Seventeen for one of its makeup features. Is it editorial content, Gawker asks, or advertising? See what you think:

I too was confused. Was this image in fact a screenshot from Seventeen, or was it one of Gawker’s own ads, like this:

Since Gawker likes to intersperse editorial content with ads, without labeling the […]

. . . to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for winning the game of Don’t Whiz on the Electric Fence that was this year’s New York City mayoral election. Way to not whiz on it, Bloomie.
. . . to California voters, for voting down Prop. 73.
. . . and to all of you who took yesterday’s quiz. […]

Rebecca Traister of Salon totally misses the point in her review of Maureen Dowd’s Are Men Necessary?. Observe.
For thousands of years, heterosexual mating has been rooted in the fact that women have needed men: for reproduction, for financial support, and, Dowd quotes her mom as proclaiming, for “heavy lifting.” Now […] Women really don’t need […]

It’s nice of Mayor Bloomberg to inspect those scary black boxes for us and give us the all clear.

Polls open in California in half an hour, which means you barely have time to shower and look up the word gerrymandering if you want to vote before work. Need some help? I’ve developed my very own fun way to get kids — and grown ups! — thinking about the issues.
Some of the following […]

The latest missive from my buddy Tapiwa:
Elmers useful information
It’s like the glue that holds our society together.