Here in central Ohio, there were two African-American candidates, Clarence Mingo and Michele Reynolds, who really bothered me when I went to the early voting center on Sunday.

Their volunteers were handing out flyers for their campaigns. But the flyers were predominantly blue in color and said absolute nothing about…

This article is literally the longest I’ve ever had any sustained thought about Rebel Wilson. Her schtick is tired, oftentimes her execution is borderline-to-over-the-border grotesque (and I do not say that because of her weight, I say that from moments like that ‘infected tattoo’ bit in Bridesmaids). Her talent is…

Because of course a woman getting a serious medical examination is just a prop for Carrot Top’s half-assed halfwit brother, “Grape Bottom” here. What an ass.

Hey, cheer up guys! At least we can look forward to the Firefly Online game, right?

So this was Alaska’s attempt to start becoming the Florida of the Pacific Northwest?

I caught that even more clearly when I noted that Alaska considers it only a misdemeanor to have an “offensive contact with fluids.” Like the ‘fluid’ in question was a lukewarm macchiato you flung in a barista’s lap because it didn’t…

So this was Alaska’s attempt to start becoming the Florida of the Pacific Northwest?

I caught that even more clearly when I noted that Alaska considers it only a misdemeanor to have an “offensive contact with fluids.” Like the ‘fluid’ in question was a lukewarm macchiato you flung in a barista’s lap because it didn’t…

Around our house, it’s not quite as invigorating.

“It seemed a story worth telling to me.”
“We should hear both sides of the story.”

Kind of makes sense. It’s already not entirely practical for the military of any branch to throw too many resources at a given method of cross-terrain transport. Amphibious transports make sense especially in swamp or mixed-terrain scenarios, and land/water combinations are far easier to arrange since all you have to…

Comedy might be the last area where we can still hash out the extent and extremes of any social setbacks or progress. For every comic who helps point out the idiocies of racism or sexism, there’s still got to be at least one who goes a bit further to point out similar extremes and foolishness in being overly-corrected…

I love the idea that ‘context’ and the ‘full video’ would somehow redeem a schlubby predator Weinstein running hands up and down a woman’s back and saying “Mmmm....that’s nice.” There’s really no context that will ever settle that as an image in my mind as anything but grotesque.

I’ll have to look this guy’s stuff over further when I’m not at work. I’m a serious sucker for these kinds of things, from the ‘urban explorationists’ who chronicle abandoned old amusement parks to the Disney nuts who slavishly chronicle the lives of virtually every single abandoned or retooled ride under the Big…

All that work on the system, and I still have pretty perplexing autocorrect ‘decisions.’

Most recently, I tried to type “spanking,” and iPhone’s autocorrect automatically changed it to ‘spa king.’ What the *duck* is a ‘spa king’? Is this a mystery last scene character in Game of Thrones we’ll see next season?

Also:…

Then again, maybe “don’t dress like Andre the Giant” only applies if you or anyone you remotely know has the foggiest idea who Andre the Giant was or ever saw him in that gear. Most people now only vaguely recall him thanks to his portrayal of Fezzick in The Princess Bride. Other than that, most people would probably…

It can really depend on the company. Years ago, Verizon Wireless had an issue where its east coast reps unionized to demand better benefits, pay, etc. I worked at VW here in Ohio at the time (around summer 2001), and they called us into a big meeting to explain that we may or may not be approached by people…

The second that I saw their remark that they weren’t liberal but in fact want this trainwreck of a regime to ‘succeed,’ I knew immediately this is more like a weird form of humblebragging, or barely-encoded messaging to a certain audience.

When you boil it all down, this anonymous supposed-saboteur is saying “Don’t…

Papa John’s: Bitter Ingredients, Bitter Tweets, Bitter Pizza (Company)

So give it about...let’s be generous and say three to five years, and cue the Creepypasta re-edited-and-souped-up-with-horror-details version that’ll float around Reddit and get its own Snopes debunking page.

Nice little technicality.

“We don’t pay INSTAGRAM to promote the posts, we pay people ON Instagram to post those things and the promotion just happens because they have so many followers!”

So here’s the thing: if you’re paying these people, even if they’re otherwise ‘private individuals,’ the moment they’re posting for…

Hrrrrm. And now cue the screeching “Make Florida Great Again” crowds in 3...2...