Yep it’s a gym!

“Straight Talk Express” has left the city.

His name is not “The man upstairs”, his name is Jesus

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I will have to award another prize to master-captioneer (new word) DKC for his entry in the recent caption contest.
This entry is clever, short and to the point. Congrats again! Email me your choices, I already have your address.
My next caption contest will be using new interactive technology and hopefully an old Soviet poster.

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I really wasn’t planning on doing a poll today. Only 13 people voted in the last one so I get the message: too many polls. My plans changed when I was at the UPS location earlier today and saw a woman shipping something in the giant box that used to contain feminine hygiene products. [...]

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This was on Johnny Dare’s Show this morning:

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You don’t have to go too far to find some sharp criticism of the current administration, or Republicans, or right-wing Christians (very good article BTW), or whoever else is standing in our way to a better future. These are the morons who start wars, steal money, destroy the environment, lie, cheat, don’t believe in evolution, [...]

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I you’d like to find out what’s going on in American prisons you have two choices: commit a small crime or read the best-selling Prisons For Dummies series. It’s a lot harder (but not entirely impossible) to get yourself locked up in a Russian correctional institution, so for the only other practical choice I recommend [...]

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If you think this blog is famous for my humor and wit, breathtaking photography or an occasional glimpse behind the iron curtain you’d be wrong. I am now a worldwide authority on pickled jalapenos which is now the most viewed post on this blog. The reader has spoken so I am posting another recipe which [...]

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I think I know a thing or two about the circus. When I was growing up© my parents took me to the circus 4-5 times a year and it wasn’t a traveling circus or a tent. My city had a permanent circus building and every few months a new program would come to town to [...]

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I am not an avid reader of the KC Star’s website but, but if you live around here it’s hard to avoid. I understand that they don’t charge for the pleasure of using their website so I didn’t mind all the horrible looking blinking ads they place everywhere, thinking that they have to make money [...]

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Noticed this sign at a restaurant today. “Sexual misconduct under Missouri Law can involve anything from indecent exposure to engaging in sexual activity in a public place or touching someone in a sexual manner while someone else is present”. The last part confused me: touching someone in a sexual manner while someone else is [...]

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