Random Memories

I had a random memory the other day, about a girl from my childhood named Pennie. She was a little younger than my brother and I, and was the daughter of a good friend of my parents, and she had a younger brother too. They would visit us occasionally, and we would visit them occasionally, and...

Can Donald trump grow a beard?

Donald Trump’s sense of self-worth seems to be based entirely on his status as an alpha male. He’s obscenely competitive, feels entitled to women, and is apparently fixated on the size of his dick. One hyper-masculine symbol, however, appears to have eluded Trump his entire life, for Donald...

Life Is Precious. Does That Mean We Have to Prolong It At All Cost?

Source Rose‘s skin seems to be transforming into implausibly thin, mottled parchment. She was never a big woman, but now that dry, once-soft outer shell lies draped over her slowly-wasting bones. Her memory is failing. Her hair is reduced to white wisps that barely cover her scalp. She can’t...

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead.

Source The emailed response from the Guggenheim's chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to "borrow" a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump's private living quarters. Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector,...

Woman Pulls Hilarious Prank On Husband Years After Her Death

Source Phedre Fitton had the last laugh after losing her five-year battle with cancer in 2013.Shortly before she died, the 69-year-old cheekily asked her husband, Nigel Fitton, to keep watering the plants in the bathroom of their South Africa home. He faithfully did so for several years until...

Grumpy Cat Shows Her Claws in $700,000 Copyright Lawsuit

Source (SANTA ANA, Calif.) — It still won’t make her smile, but Grumpy Cat has won some scratch. A California jury gave the furry frown queen more than $700,000 this week in a federal lawsuit over the use of her identity. According to documents obtained by The Washington Post, owner Tabatha...

Pope shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander

Source SANTIAGO, Chile — Pope Francis accused victims of Chile's most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the country. Francis said that until he sees...

Snow Toyota Supra Fools Canadian Police

Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Montreal police probably rolled their eyes at the person who parked their snow-covered early ‘90s Toyota Supra right in a snow-removal lane, completely blocking in other parked cars. They went to ticket the car, and got to the point of...

Mat Staver: Christians Can’t “Get a Fair Shake” In Front of an Openly Gay Judge

Source Christian Right activist Mat Staver, last seen lying about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Tracker,” is furious that Andrew McDonald may soon become the chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. That’s because McDonald is openly gay — he’d be the first such chief justice...

U.S. Embassy in London blasted by Trump is a 'fortress' with moat

Source . . . . . . . . . . . Despite it being described as a diplomatic “fortress” and boasting a moat, President Trump thinks that the shiny new U.S. Embassy in London is rubbish. The commander-in-chief blasted the process that brought the building to be on the River Thames, saying...