http://www.dustbury.com I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:18:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I mean, just take a look: So we're going to lose everything — twice — and a little more besides. (From USNews.com via Megan McArdle.) http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7506 This week's Carnival of the Vanities is officially the Sleet Edition, and sleet, like other forms of winter precipiation, is something I hope goes away quickly; my tolerance for the stuff lasts maybe a minute and twenty-nine seconds, or about as long as Van Halen's instrumental "316" from the For ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7504 And we'll be able to hear it nationwide, says Dave Schuler: If you think that Illinois is a national laughing stock now wait until the Chicago mayoral election when an enormous proportion of the folks who are showing up as supporting players in Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial (which may well still ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7502 This is so familiar it hurts: How many VHS tapes do you own? I stopped purchasing movies on VHS several years ago, but I still manage to own right around 100 of the tapes. I kept them because at least half of them I don’t own in any other format. Of those, ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7500 This is no time to send in the clones: In order to help our nation’s leaders avoid critical fashion faux pas, DressRegistry.com recently sent letters to U.S. Senators urging them to register evening gowns they planned on wearing to upcoming inaugural balls. Yes, there's a reason for this: DressRegistry.com was created to help ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7499 I mean, the freaking wheels came off, or something. I don't know what's happened to the formerly-lowly Timberwolves, but McHale's Navy came on like gangbusters tonight, opening up a 42-24 lead after the first quarter and then expanding on it in the following stanzas, thrashing the Thunder, 129-87. ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7501 A Young Turk contemplates body paint while linking to this shot from Hefnerland: As if actually wearing skimpy lingerie isn't enough now we live in a society where women paint themselves to appear AS IF they are wearing skimpy lingerie. (To be fair, they don't do the painting themselves; that job ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7498 The Oklahoman's Mike Baldwin floated this curious statistic: Oklahoma City shot 52.7 percent from the field [against the Knicks]. Oddly, the Thunder is only 2-7 when shooting 50 percent or better. Yeah, but they're 3-23 when they miss more than they hit. Compared to that, "only 2-7" sounds downright wonderful. http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7497 Obvious question: Do I want to fork over 30 cents per track to strip the DRM off my iTunes purchases? I dunno. It's not an enormous bill staring me in the face — maybe fifteen bucks — but pretty much everything I'd want to move around outside Apple's FairPlay has ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7496 While noting this trend toward tooth retention by us older folks, Michael Blowhard recounts a couple of stories: An old lady once told me that back in the 1920s, when she was a child, you just assumed that anyone over 40 was wearing dentures. A dentist recently explained to me that ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7495 Dr. Weevil finds a recurring anomaly: Four times in the last week, the National Weather Service has displayed a current temperature for my town higher than the expected high for the day. Surely if the current temperature is 68° F, the expected high cannot be 62°, it must be at least ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7494 So the Knicks, fresh from beating the tar out of the Celtics, fall to the Thunder. What kind of world is this? It's not that the New Yorkers brought a knife to a gunfight, either: the Knickerbocker trey was deployed 34 times, with 11 successes, and Al Harrington, off the ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7493 The blessed fog of forgetfulness has settled over most of the therapy sessions I had in the late 1980s, though I haven't yet cleared out all the memories about that one afternoon with the Holtzman inkblots, ostensibly an improvement over the workaday Rorschachs. Think "frustration coming to a sudden ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7491 The General is moving some battery-powered hardware these days: for 2008, GM sold 14,439 hybrid-powered vehicles, including a heady 2555 in December. This was only 1.15 percent of their December volume, but I'd hazard a guess that barely 1.15 percent of actual auto buyers — I'm told there are ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7492 Things were downright complicated when I was a student, but a bit of applied creativity could work wonders: judiciously-chosen margins, innovating page-numbering (nobody ever reads page 6), and careful choice of fonts (the replaceable Selectric ball was truly a godsend) could yield a ten-page paper from a thousand words or ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7490 CD sales in the US are down about twenty percent. If you're thinking "Oh, that's bad," Bill Wyman says no, that's good: Why is this good news? Because the record industry is built on three pillars of corruption, on which it built an edifice (the manufacture and promotion of physical ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7489 Suggested by Steph Waller: Go into your archives and post the first sentence from the first post you made each month last year. Okay, will do. Let's see what sort of crumby stuff I've been casting on the waters: January: "Worst titles of 2007" contains no full sentence until the very end: ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7488 [3-Word Commentary] Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman may run for Governor of California: Positive feedback here. An invasive species of trout in Yellowstone Lake may be fought with Jell-O: Presumably, unflavored variety. A doll that fills its own diapers: Refills, five dollars. Burger King introduces a signature fragrance: Whoppers not touched. Visitors' locker room at ... http://www.dustbury.com/3wc Actual advertisement by Chicagoland's Leather Creations: I'd bet Blago isn't about to take this sitting down. (From WLS radio via Michelle Malkin.) http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7487 Or so it seems, anyway: Hyundai is the first automaker to offer a vehicle return program in the U.S. that allows you to walk away from your loan or lease without having to worry about negative equity. It lets you return your vehicle in case of certain life-altering circumstances. Which could ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7486 According to this unimpeachable source, $932.99. Presumably not including shipping and, uh, handling. [Probably will not get past your workplace filters.] http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7485 Now this is some strange writing: If the Teenage Death Song wasn't dead itself by 1965 — and it wasn't — it certainly wasn't because Jimmy Cross didn't do his darnedest to put the last few nails in its coffin, so to speak. A preposterously funny sendup of the genre in ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7484 If you thought Terry McAuliffe was going to spend the rest of his days slinging hash in Snake's Navel, Kansas, you might want to think again: the former DNC chairman and Friend of Bill is mounting a gubernatorial campaign in Virginia. Why do I get the feeling that the Clintonistas are ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7483 Does the arrival of a new year herald the arrival of a new set of weird inquiries? Why, yes it does. sophia loren poses nude Pirelli calendar:  A vision of which I shall never tire. Donna worked at seven eleven in oklahoma city at SE 44th and Bryant and then moved to ... http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7482