Hungarian refugees arriving in Denmark, 1956.

Who cares? -He got the game.

“Ah, Mom, I, I'm gonna do a half-roll now , so hang on." "Oh my, Jim, that was exciting. Did you hear something odd, though?" "No Mom. Nothing. Certainly not a tiny yowl of abject terror."

So Odd Job would be an excellent choice for a Nice Guy/White Knight? Hmmm...

WTF did I just read? Wacko men who murder women over job disputes = entitled misandrist MRAs now?

What gets me is, Hawai’i has a multi-layered history going back a thousands years, full of everything a good movie would need : love; war; love and war; revolutions; betrayals by invading missionaries/military/scheming politicians/ big business. Seems there's a lot stuff there to mine for something that could make for…

Can I be your neighbor, in like the fourth hill-cave down the valley? Every autumn equinox, we can build a bonfire of iphones and Garmin GPS's we've taken from the campers we've murdered and drink my special asparagus wine.

Geez, don't make light of this whole ball of wax, okay?

Okay, cane spiders are scary, particularly when they take off in a dead sprint across the wall; but they're the good guys. They eat the baby centipedes. That said, I have done that thing with the improvised flame thrower and crisped a couple of centipedes with hair spray and a lighter (hey, it was the '70s, ok?) Those…

lived in Hawai'i for years. Turned on the overhead light one day and clearly saw the outline of a dead ten inch long centipede in the glass. When all my overhead bulbs eventually burned out, I just bought more table lamps. And don't even get me started on the cane spiders.

And the losses are passed on to the ladies.

Shoplifting is big-time. I've heard of interstate crews that set up stores to sell their stuff. One mall I worked in had a Diesel store that put a table with jeans ten feet from their doors and twenty feet from the escalator down to parking. Regularly, two or three people would walk in, pick up an armload of jeans,…

Never chase a shoplifter. You don't know how many warrants they have out on them or how badly they don't want to go back to jail.

my cousin is 6' 2", very fit; has trophies from Shotokan karate tournaments in the bookcase. His sweet little wife used to regularly beat the crap out him. The final straw was when she threw a pan of boiling water at him, scarring his chest and neck. Then he finally started divorce proceedings, because he knew the…

Been trolled on reddit, but gawker was the worst; just classic. I said something about Native Americans & poverty and a troll stalked me for weeks, downvoting comments and posting wild "ur a faggot" stuff. He'd done actual research & made comments about my past jobs. Very creepy. Turned out he was a grown man,…

At thirty, he flies them to his exclusive catered party, which turns out to be a deserted desert atoll. He then sails away on his yacht. "I'll be back in a week or so. Make that cake last a while, guys."

Oof. I replaced every reference in that letter to 'Jesus' with 'Allah' and came up with ISIS.

Pretty sure my natural father was still married when he married my mom. Curious about dear ol' dad, I spent lots of time and $ doing research a few years ago. I know he was released from the Navy in July 1945, married in August '45, had two babies, and turned up in LA in September 1948 and married my mom in November…

did a rasterbator with Here's Johnny! from The Shining. Put it on my blinds so when the blinds are closed, you see a grinning demented Jack Nicholson with an axe in his hands. I don't even bother to lock my door any more.

In SE Asia in the Army, I slept on the ground probably 6 days a week. I heard all the stories: poisonous centipedes, scorpions, millipedes, typhus infected rats, step-and-a-half snakes, cobras, vicious feral 400 pound pigs, psycho monkeys defending their territory by beating the ever-loving crap out of you. I was…