The Closet Extrovert

“The con man’s game is always the same: sensing what the gull most wants to be true.”
- Stephen Metcalf, in his Slate article The Death of Literary Theory (via Ann Althouse)
Disclaimer: Please don’t misconstrue the following as an attack on natural remedies or alternative medicine treatments, or an attempt to dispute conspiracy theories about the […]

We’re talking trash over at Down With Absolutes. To be more specific, we’ve been discussing RecycleBank, the pilot “recycling for incentives” program going on in Wilmington that I posted about recently. According to Mike’s post, some people are upset about having of their weekly trash collection days replaced with recycling collection, but dropping regular trash […]

It’s not just women. According to an article in Men’s Health, Wilmington, Delaware is the 6th most angry city in the United States:
Our search for evidence of urban anger began with the percentage of men with high blood pressure, from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (as calculated by Sperling’s BestPlaces). We then factored […]

Outbursts! Meltdowns! Hot latte in your face! There seems to be a growing epidemic of female politicians taking crazy pills.
In a recent St. Petersburg Times article, former employees of US Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) attempt to get some closure by raking her over the coals for her abusive treatment. Commentors on the Obscure Store […]

We received a letter from the Mayor’s Office at the end of June informing us that The Mayor, the Clean Wilmington Committee and the Wilmington City Council would be implementing its new residential curbside recycling program in our neighborhood on July 17th. The program is called RecycleBank and it looks promising. The limited-area pilot phase […]

I dislike sensory overload when I go shopping. I get particularly overwhelmed by all the bright and shiny choices on the shelves when I try to buy things like toothpaste. With all the dazzling promises and ever changing packaging, I’m never really sure if I’m buying the same brand I previously purchased. All I care […]

I can’t believe I missed the catalytic posts about this on Boing Boing last year and all the resulting media coverage since then. Eh well… better late than neverly, I have finally found a religion I can get behind, Pastafarianism! Aside from the wonderful parody of creationism, a faith based on an invisible creature with […]