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Doonesbury on magical thinking

Getting it right once again (click on the image for the whole comic)… I’ve been meaning to do a piece about Head On, but I think I’ve decided that it’s just too ridiculous to bother with, and that’s saying something. After all, this is the blog that regularly posts pictures of a giant enema bottle.

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Deirdre Imus gives everyone the gift of stupid for Christmas

I’ve mentioned before that it irritates me that Don Imus is back on the air. It’s not that I give a rodent’s posterior that he made an offensive comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team that lead to his being fired from his previous gig. It’s actually more because he somehow managed to displace the […]

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Colloidal silver: The real Blue Man Group

People never cease to amaze me. Sometimes it’s in a good way, when a person whom I would least expect to be capable of it does something really kind or brilliant. Sometimes it’s in a bad way. One of the bad ways people never cease to amaze me is how someone can continue down a […]

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Bonus pre-Christmas Friday Woo: Give the gift of woo for Christmas, courtesy of Duke University

It occurred to me. For someone looking for last minute Christmas gifts for the credulous, perhaps the Chi Machine, which I mentioned this morning, won’t fit the bill. One thing about it is that it’s too limited in what it can do, and if I’m going to give the gift of woo for Christmas, I […]

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Your Friday Dose of Woo: The perfect last minute gift for Christmas–woo!

As hard as it is to believe, yet another Christmas is fast approaching. I can feel it in the blogosphere. Heck, I can feel it here on the ol’ blog. Once garrulous commenters here have gone strangely silent for the most part (at least in comparison to their usual prodigious output), and traffic has already […]