I really like the Christian Science Monitor. However, like all papers, sometimes they write a bunch of junk. Make Your Blood Boil? Well, I Should Say! on Blog of the Moderate Left skewers the Monitor's recent article on parents having dance parties with their kids:
Slow down, trollop! A glass of wine? Music? The kids? Why, it’s like the wickedness scene in The Ten Commandments, only far more brazen!
Check out Things that crack me up, #4 on The Gimp Parade, which is one of my favorite top 10 lists ever:
I'd like to change the focus of stranger questions from "How fast can that thing go?" to "What's the biggest thing you've ever run over?"
My new mobile is lumbered with a bewildering array of unnecessary features aimed at idiots by Charlie Brooker is a review of a phone that I don't care about in the slightest, and yet I am delighted by the review:
The phone arrived the next day and immediately began elbowing me in the ribs. It seems to have been designed specifically to irritate anyone with a mind.
The Bad Student at Red Stapler will sound familiar to anyone who has experienced the wonder of the attempted upsell from a telephone customer service rep:
She read her script with such conviction and caring that for a moment, I almost believed that paying 79 cents a month for every hundred dollars I charged would solve all my life's problems and make me, for once, truly happy.
Search History is an xchd comic. To avoid spoiling the full effect, I will stop here.
And last but far from least in my heart, EVEN THE ARMADILLOS GOT NECK PROTECTION and THE CLOAK AND DAGGER MAGNUM PACKER from my beloved I'M ON YOUR COMPUTER. No one loves this blog as much as I do, but that shouldn't stop you from reading it.
Comments (1)
Sweet collection. The CSM bit was FanTasTic. Level-headedness, imagine?
Posted by Si | March 24, 2007 1:02 PM