Comedian Sarah Silverman is the foul-mouthed spokeswoman for a grass-roots movement to have Jews travel to Florida to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama for president. Named “The Great Schlep,” the “movement” gets started with a funny, irreverent four-minute video hosted by Silverman. (Note: some profanity — you’ve been warned)

The Great Schlep from […]

Trish won’t let me create any new categories, but if she did, I’d make one for Water Closet Innovations. The latest was reported Tuesday by that venerable institution (so you know it’s important stuff), the Associated Press:

If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better. At least that’s what toilet-paper researchers in […]

Check out the grass-root movement here.

If the “Get Your War On” series of minimalist comics has ever made you do a spit-take, put down your coffee cup and go to 23/6.com. The strip, which features a guy in accounts receivable talking to a guy in accounts payable, has been animated to great comic effect. Here’s the premiere weekly episode:

So you think you’re good with accents? Test yourself on this site: Can You Guess Where My Accent is From?
I thought I was pretty good, but I only scored a 24.
Let us know how you do.

Lest anyone think the state of my birth has slouched toward sophistication, note that tonight marks the opening of Florida’s annual alligator hunting season. The state has issued more than 5,000 gator-hunting permits this year — an all-time record.
Apparently, some folks are real excited about it:
“Everybody’s super-stoked,” said Grayson Padrick, who owns a hunting and […]

I’m used to receiving scam spam from Nigerian con men who must think I have rocks for brains. Occasionally, they’ll show some glimmer of creativity by putting a different spin on the same old scam. But this time they went too far — they tried to get me to believe that FBI Director Robert Mueller […]

It’s not Friday but it feels like it is, and you know what that means! Time to goof off and kill work hours online until the parties start. And have I got the fritter-er for you.
www.HowISpentMyStimulus.com is a bizarre cross between MySpace and PostSecret, but of course the subject is how people spent their […]

This video, and its web site, break down all the reasons we should vote Republican. If you’re having trouble thinking of any, just click.