Herewith the 3000-year history of alternative medicine in 30 seconds:

1000 BCE: “Eat this root.”

100 CE: “That root’s heathen, don’t eat it. Say this prayer.”

1800 CE: “That prayer is superstition, don’t say it. Drink this snake-oil.”

1900 CE: “That snake-oil is phony, don’t drink it. Take this pill.”

2002 CE: “That pill is artificial, don’t take it. Eat this root.”

— from the always-useful randi.org

Honest Dictionary Entries...


Literary Science Fiction: “No academic publisher would take it, so I threw in five lines about time travel and sold it to Asimov’s.”
See also Atwood, Margaret.

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Spaghetti with classmeat


The real WTF is that it comes with a cabbage-broccoli salad.

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[for the kana-deprived, the menu item is for “spaghetti meat sauce”, served with one of: beef, pork, ham, or classmate]

“What is that?”

"It's priest, have a little priest."

“Is it really good?”

"Sir, it's too good, at least."

(Lansbury/Cariou)

A Balanced Diet


Not pictured: the fourth food group, alcohol.

"Cheap ain't easy"


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Dear Dianne Feinstein...


Yeah, what he said.

OMC: Yuka Ogura


Yuka Ogura (小倉優香). Age 20. Yum.

I could stare at this smiley cutie for days. In fact, that’s why it took me so long to post this…

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Trump 2020!


If you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, Dianne Feinstein just turned Trump into a fucking superhero. #OwnGoal

Plug-in Transformer


Wow, that’s gotta be hard to clean…

“Need a clue, take a clue,
 got a clue, leave a clue”