Category Archives: Completely Different

Dubya, the Movie is clever, and there’s no question it is exquisitely cast, but I found myself unable to laugh for some reason.

Update: On the other hand, this song did make me laugh pretty hard. I hope it gets a lot of airplay! (So do these guys.)

Yesterday, a student told me a very funny joke that he made up:

What’s the difference between an onion and the Bill of Rights?

Answer below…

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This morning NPR was telling me about some program in prisons somewhere where the inmates are trained to run marathons as way of creating self-reliance, rehabilitation, connections with non-inmates and no doubt a host of other good things I was too sleepy to take in shortly after 7am on a Saturday.

Call me a curmudgeon if you must, but my first thought was to wonder whether teaching criminals to run faster really was an optimal use of tax dollars…

At lunch today there was no fortune in my fortune cookie. Does this mean I have no future?

David Weinberger shares a morning insight. Do not read while drinking coffee.

Wikipedia’s deadpan explanation of a parody religion based on the Flying Spaghetti Monster, AKA Pastafarianism.