Dum Pendebat Filius

There’s no use crying over spilt milk.

Some weirdness from the news: In Michigan, a 28-year-old woman left her dead 19-year-old roommate lying in the living room, covered up with a pile of dirty clothes, for three weeks. During this time, she called her dead roommate’s father several times, asking him to send money for his daughter, who he thought was still [...]

That’s where Ann Coulter seems to be from, readers: the rings of Saturn. And, as it so happens, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has just sent back an amazing set of new images of Ann Coulter’s home. Enjoy.

Some wacko roughed up Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco peace conference last week. Crazy Pammy has more information, including a link to a SF Examiner article which says the attacker was some Holocaust-denying looneytune: In a posting Tuesday on the anti-Zionist Web site ZioPedia, a writer using the name Eric Hunt takes credit for [...]

O.J. has been on my mind lately. First it was Slate’s Timothy Noah and the “subjunctive tense” (see below). The subject of that Slate piece was a Newsweek article which summarized the controversial book chapter entitled “The Night In Question.” If you haven’t seen it, and you’re interested, you should read James Wolcott’s review of [...]

From the AP wire: A judge ordered a new trial in a case in which a juror sipped vodka throughout the trial. Jefferson County Circuit Judge Geoffrey Morris said in his order that new trials may be granted only in the most extreme circumstances. But he said “the inexcusable, disruptive behavior of this juror was [...]

How is it, readers, that people are still falling for these Nigerian email scams? Never mind the high amounts of greed and gullibility it would take to fall for one of these scams in the first place, who by now hasn’t heard about them? Who doesn’t get one in their inbox every couple of days? [...]

My friend The Liberal Avenger is looking for entries to his Deathbed Joke Project: I am creating this thread – The Deathbed Joke Project – to collect and record suggestions for the funniest “final words” from which we can all pick a few to memorize and pledge to use at the right moment if and [...]

A man in Pennsylvania used the same vehicle to deliver corpses to funeral homes and Domino’s pizza to hungry people. [Police] noticed a stretcher in the rear of the vehicle (along with rubbish and wet clothing) where “pizzas were sitting to be delivered.” Asked about the items, Bethel explained that when he finished delivering Domino’s [...]

Scorpion: “Get over here!” President Bush: “Get over here!”