WHAT EXACTLY DID SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR MARK SANFORD REALLY HAVE IN MIND in heading down to Argentina while initially claiming he was going to hike the Appalachian Trail--perhaps trying the powder down Bariloche way, what with its being winter (and, hence, ski season) in the Southern Hemisphere?Tanning himself insane on the sands of Mar del Plata?Seeking some sort of "safe harbour," post-World War II Nazi leadership stylee, in the boonies of Buenos Aires (especially well away from what the A... Read Full Story

FOR YEARS, THE PUBLISHERS OF POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE BOASTED THAT SAME was "written so you can understand it."The same approach which a certain Julius Streicher made infamous with his Nazi-era anti-Semitic tabloid weekly Der Sturmer; the better to whip the Great Unwashed across Nazi Germany into a patriotic frenzy of anti-Semitic hate serving Hitler, Germany and the Aryan Master Race with oversimplified articles laden with anti-Semitic bromides and canards complimented with cartoons reinfo... Read Full Story

see more EngrishTHE GOOD PEOPLE @ PYRAMID SCHEME ALERT HAVE A POINT TO PONDER FOR SUCH NEEDING EXTRA INCOME in the face of the current socioeconomic dislocation, especially so such as cannot find traditional employment due to circumstances outside their direct control and probably need extra income all the more:Recession  Exposes MLM as Business Opportunity Fraud, Not Direct Selling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~News stories, mostly planted by the Direct Selling Associ... Read Full Story

YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD BY NOW THE NEWS THAT ANCHORAGE, THE LARGEST CITY IN ALASKA, was jolted earlier today by an earthquake of 5.1 magnitude whose epicentre was some 55 miles northerly as the crow flies.And it's probably just me, but it's possible to consider said earthquake (as is guaranteed to bring back memories of the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964 as brought about substantial destruction around Anchorage and Valdez in particular) as Divine Wrath and Judgment upon The Last Frontie... Read Full Story

"SO MAMA, DON'T TAKE MY KODACHROME AWAY" WAS THE REFRAIN PAUL SIMON MADE FAMOUS in his 1973 Top 40 popdisk hit "Kodachrome."Now you have to wonder what his reaction will be to the news that Eastman Kodak Company, which introduced Kodachrome film in 1936, has announced that it has ended, for all purposes and intents, production of Kodachrome, citing declining demand, increased acceptance of digital photography and the fact of only one laboratory (in Russell, Kansas, know--hometown of GOP thorn... Read Full Story

TALK ABOUT MANUFACTURED EMOTION GONE INTO OVERDRIVE, PANDERING TO THE VULNERABLE AND SUCHLIKE needing extra income, but unable to find honest work due to circumstances outside their control, yet wanting a way to act out of Christian Charity (not the manufactured perversion right-wing Elmer Gantry types promote, only to misuse the funds so collected because of some patsy like "other, more pressing needs came up suddenly")--witness the following "419"-stylee "spam" e-mail with "A CRY FOR HELP" ... Read Full Story

AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, READERS, YOUR CORRESPONDENT WILL BE UNABLE TO POST TOMORROW out of deference to my likely being occupied by the last day of the Steamboat Days celebration in Winona and its component events, in particular the parade and the Fireworks Finale.Not to mention the inevitable people-watching I seem fond of.I hope to be back Monday in this humble space, and beg entreat you (especially such leaving EntreCards) to keep visiting this blog, and likewise recommending this to frie... Read Full Story

WITH THE SUMMER OF 2009 NOW HAVING ARRIVED IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (THE MINNWISSIPPI INCLUDED), Your Correspondent couldn't help but notice quite the muggy sort of feeling here alongside generally sunny conditions after lucking out (so to speak) on rough weather yesterday afterlunch into evening.Which, it turns out, wound up afflicting Indiana for the most part with serious flooding ... and triggering a major heat spell across the Former Confederacy which could see maxima exceed or @ least... Read Full Story

see more EngrishYOU COULD JUST IMAGINE "JESUS BODY" BEING THE CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO QUICK (AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS) WEIGHT LOSS, were it to be available here in our "morally superior" United States (though this is actually from Japan, even allowing for the "Engrish" on the packaging).But then again, on the other hand, you could imagine certain overzealously Fundamentalist Low Church Christians objecting to the very name "Jesus Body" on Blasphemy grounds (cf. C.W. Post having to hastily rename... Read Full Story

JUST MOMENTS AGO, ONE OF SEAN HANNITY'S GOOD AND LOYAL SPONSORS ON HIS RADIO CARNIVAL OF PROLEFEED, BY NAME AND STYLEE OF MARK STANFORD, has been indicted on charges in connexion with a Ponzi scheme in the form of Stanford International Bank Certificates of Deposit.(The Sean Hannity angle being very important because a Stanford International affiliate selling investment-grade gold coins to Mr. Hannity's audience of weak-minded, undereducated and less-sophisto listeners had been advertising al... Read Full Story