“Hmm. Rawhide chew or Dad’s custom cut plastic guitar pickguard? Which to chew?” Heavy sigh. I always swore I would never breed, and yet this puppy dog is 99% of the terrible twos toddler experience. The remaining one percent is the fact that I can shove him in a cage for hours without going to jail [...]

I quite like these sorts of moments. Having recently explored the idea that I have ADD (and concluded in fact I do not), this message on the side of my Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal box caught my eye. Nearly 20% more attentiveness! Wow! Just from eating cereal, no less. My curiosity piqued, I read the fine [...]

Never underestimate the power of a Sexy Puritan to influence conservatives. Sarah Palin seems to be beating out the incumbent Divisive Leader, Dubya, in the hearts and minds of Republican voters. Right after the election results, the McCain and Palin camps began to claw at each other, providing great schadenfreude to those of us who [...]

1. Our new handsome black president 2. Oregon’s new Democratic Senator 3. The utter trouncing of the fascist Republicans by the centrist Democrats. 4. A genuine sense of hope for the future of this country, or at least a portion for which I’ll live to see. 5. Cleaning up puppy shit.

The brilliant and bizarre Mykle Hansen gives you really rotten advice about bears. Even Sarah Palin knows better! Help! A Bear Is Eating Me! from mykle hansen on Vimeo. Book trailer by Danny Norton. Buy Mykle’s book from Eraserhead Press.