Taking joy in the downfall of others is okay when they’re bad guys. Infamy or Praise tells a funny story about a crook who gets caught by leaving too many voice recordings connected to his crimes:

Here’s another tip for thieves: don’t use your regular phone number for all of your crimes. Get a business line or something.

Plus, consider the “unlisted” option. Or at least wear one of those burglar masks while you’re on the phone.

It’s another August day in New York. Only it’s late October. Why do I have to sit down at my desk in a sweat on the very eve of Halloween?!

I really can’t stand it. If I have to lose my right-wing credentials to get something done about this, so be it! Sometimes weather, all added up, does equal climate, darn it! Like when it bugs me. Then it’s climate.

I’m calling it as I see it: This globe is cooking. I therefore make the following personal commitments to reduce the emission of greenhouse gasses:

• Selling the cow as soon as I get home!
• All right, I’m selling both of them.
• Well, actually, I’m going to eat them.
• Anyway, also, no personal jets for me.
• I will not increase the square footage of my house above the size of Al Gore’s gardener’s shed.
• Notwithstanding their aesthetic unpleasantness, I will drop my opposition to windmills near my home, i.e., in the Passaic River.

Sorry if I’m inconveniencing you with my truthiness. But I gotta be me.

IMAO:

John Edwards’ turning point against corporations was when he narrowly lost out to a soft, anthropomorphic teddy bear for the the title of the “Snuggle Soft Dryer Sheet Mascot.” “Edwards Soft” has since become the measure of just how soft someting can be — making newborn kittens extremely jealous.

I did not know this!