Ok, I was kidding about the rectum part.  If you’ve seen Pulp Fiction, you know the story of the watch Christopher Walken smuggled in his anus.  Well, not counting Walken’s ass vault, MSN has a list of 16 places where you should not put your stuff.  Some of these actually confirm long running beliefs I have had.
For [...]

I found this really amusing.  I was searching for the source of this quote, which I have seen attributed to both Alexander Fraser Tytler and Alexis de Tocqueville at various points.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from [...]

About 17 years ago, or so, I went to a short and animated film festival.  They had some really great work on display and I was particularly impressed with two films - Juke Bar and Balance.  It has been nearly two decades since I first saw them, and I had not seen either one since.  [...]

The Washington Post today has a (far too) long piece about Meghan McCain and her blog.  The piece is fairly unremarkable in its writing, and the blog, from what I’ve seen is fairly unremarkable with the exception of the angle.
There is, however, one passage that jumped out at me as I was reading.
There’s a genius, too, [...]

Mrs. Quip is heading out on a trip and decides to download a couple of movies from iTunes.  She’s got her iPod all set, purchases a couple of rentals and starts the download at midnight.  Her flight is at 6:00 AM, so she’ll grab the laptop on the way out the door, transfer the files [...]