How Dog Whistles Work

I found this on a good blog called Are We Lumberjacks. Check it out.

Funny Culinary Types in Great Falls

Check out this interesting recipe.

Moving To Montana

Instead of building a tall fence all around the state, just show this to your out-of-state friends. I found this on a blogsite from another River City just a few hours north and west of Billings.

Another Criterion For Selecting a Candidate for President

Have a name that can be used in various ways on bumperstickers.

From the website Cripes Suzette, she calls this entry Rhymes With Sane. The only thing I can think of to add is Spahn and Cain and Three Days of Rain. 

Which comes from a different sport and is a couple of generations old but hey, it would appeal to me and a bunch of other old farts. And we vote, as often as we can move our wheelchairs from polling place to polling place.

If Recent Biblical Scholars Studied Early American History

Check this possibility out at the blog The Divine Life. Read some of the comments as some of the early responders did not realize the irony of the whole thing.

This Must Take A Lot of Time and Effort

How to Kill a Mean Rooster and A Recipe for Coq au Vin

A guy named Ari Levaux wrote a very funny story which contains his recipe for Coq au Vin in the latest issue of the Billings Outpost, June 16, 2011. In the style of Dave Barry out of Ernest Hemingway he starts with: "Rusty was a mean old rooster from a three-bird flock that included a post-menopausal hen named Annabelle who hadn't laid anything in years, and a submissive, possibly gay rooster named Marco Polo. . . . I held him upside down by his feet . . . . I swung a machete through his neck and into the dirt beneath it. I held him upside down over the garlic patch to drain the blood." About halfway through he gets to the recipe itself, though he does mention near the end Annabelle's death apparently by hypothermia, which he calls natural. We never learn what happened to the queer rooster.

This is a pretty good issue of the Outpost as they have a story on Brazilian futebol, different from ordinary soccer by the size of the ball apparently, which might mean that little kids' soccer would be less boring; a short item about the possible new library, a longish "climate-change" piece by Editor Crisp wherein he talks down in his usual way to his unconvinced readers about something he knows little about, a few interesting letters to the editor, the usual half-baked but still funny Clawson piece, and some nice, neat obituaries. All in all, a good read for Sunday morning over a Perkins' breakfast.

I Just Can't Title This

Thanks to a tip from Way Up North which led to this story from Yahoo News. I'm still uncertain as to whether Yahoo has been hacked by The Onion.

This Might Be A Good Idea

For unknown reasons I used to think that psychiatrists needed help. But reading this blog regularly has been very good for my mental health.

A Real Man

From the desk of a friend


Subject: A Real Man

 A real man is a woman's best friend. He will
never stand her up and never let her down.
He will reassure her when she feels insecure
and comfort her after a bad day.

He will inspire her to do things she never
thought she could do; to live without fear
and forget regret. He will enable her to
express her deepest emotions and give in to
her most intimate desires. He will make sure
she always feels as though she's the most
beautiful woman in the room and will enable
her to be the most confident, sexy,
seductive, and invincible.

 
No wait... sorry... I'm thinking of wine.
Never mind.  

A Modern Version of Who's On First?

Very funny.

Pear Pressure

This lady writes a sometimes very funny blog, reminding me of P G Wodehouse. See what you think. This is not quite creation from nothing but it comes close to it: nothing would have come from it without the imaginative mind setting everything else in motion. This one is very funny, one of her best.

Just In Case

If you may have been wondering who is the funniest writer on the World Wide Web, here is my nomination. Iowahawk wins hands down or up. I hope he doesn't get too political or he will surely wind up in the crosshairs of certain White House occupants.

The Bible in Less than a Minute

Found on Ironic Catholic who attributed this to Crazy Christian Clips

Men and Women

Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the very top. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they often take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy to pick up. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right man to come along: the one who is smart and brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

As for men...men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable enough to have dinner with.

——From my brother Gerald: we both have amazing wives, definitely top of the tree stuff.

A Gentle and Thoughtful Montanan: Dave Budge

At least I think that is where he is from. Well, anyway, he seems to make a lot of sense. And he tells the dopes off in no uncertain terms. Check out Dave budge's blogsite.

More Fun & Games @ beyond the pale

If you move around the room, Beatrice's eyes follow you. Go here for the real stuff.

This Is A Voice Worth Listening To; And Very Funny She Is Too

Go here whenever you feel depressed or depraved or just having trouble understanding the world around you.

Days of Whine and Envy Almost Over

This was the Gazette headline this morning. I can't remember the last time they used a type size this large.

My guess is the headline writer thought that saving it for The Second Coming was going to be too wasteful.

"Let's hope he is the man we hope he is."

One question: Is Obama Time (OT) to be started now, November 5th or the day of His inauguration? When can we start blaming Him for all of the problems of the human condition?

Is it possible that Rachel Maddow will be hazed back to her cage to await the next wave of Republican impalas? Are there any left?

Do we finally have a one party country? Will the next generation of NBC talking heads have to go to Alaska in order to practice their hunting techniques on the easy prey? Inquiring minds want to know.

A Cartoon from my Favorite Harvard Economist

Yes, Virginia, there is a Harvard economist that makes sense and writes well and occasionally humorously. Check him out here.