“Rapture Wreaks Havoc On Local Book Club”

Anyone familiar with The Onion already knows the publisher of this sad story.  The headlines are often the best part of the story, and that's not to sleight the stories. Or check out this story:  "MLB No Longer Accepting New Players" I don't know how those guys do it so well…

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Spoof ads, anyone?

Madison Avenue is so clever these days that most commercials are, to some extent, fun to watch. Adbusters.org is working hard to top Madison Avenue, though, with its own spoof commercials.  Some of these are quite well done.                           You'll find more of Adbuster's spoof ads here.  Here's what Adbusters…

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Bushchromium is not a new element.

Recent reports of the discovery of a new element which has been called “Bushcromium” have been discredited by the recent discovery of a nearly identical form of the element which is called “Poppium” It appears that the characteristics of Bushcromium and Poppium are nearly identical, with both sharing some of…

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Stop Writing?

Below is a link to a blog called 101 Reasons to Stop Writing.  It is a blog about writing and actually does have a list of reasons to stop, which, when one considers the amount of verbiage being generated by the human race, might seem like an impossible challenge.  Those…

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