I feel safer already.

Always with America’s best interest in mind, the DHS is working on a new radiation scanner that is just as effective but costs twice as much:

“The Department of Homeland Security has said the new machines it is developing can distinguish between kitty litter and dangerous radioactive material and produce fewer false alarms than the current ones.”

He probably has a subscription.

I believe I’ve discovered the source of half the (why God why) PowerPoint slide shows my father forwards for my amusement: Corrupted-files.com. Like the name says, they offer deliberately corrupted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that you can use as a delaying tactic while you scramble to get your homework done.

Four months wasn’t long enough.

Direct from Yahoo! Answers:

Why am I only getting two TV channels? I have two televisions and am used to getting 11 to 16 channels, but I can only get two or three. BOTH of my TVs have the same problem, and the guy in the trailer next to me can only get one channel. Is this a result of a solar flare? My internet still works.

Apparently he hasn’t actually been watching either one of them…

Foom, you’re it.

The mass media misread it as “lighter fluid tag” and spread the story like wildfire, but the real story is just as dumb: some guys get drunk and take turns spraying themselves with Tag deodorant (strike 1) and setting it on fire (strike 2), then one kicks it up a notch by spraying lighter fluid on his flaming pal. Clearly my youth was not misspent enough.

Almost by definition.

Hmm:
cynicism

A brief interlude for lunch.

Mario and Luigi who?

Some hard-hitting journalism from Inside Edition, circa 1988:

How do you make a cannonball float?

Normally the recipe involves ice cream…

The cruelest month indeed.

How do you tell someone it’s snowing outside on April Fool’s Day?

Yo, hangin with my marshmallow candy.

The Chicago Tribune’s Peeps on Parade has been updated for 2009 with new reader submissions of scenes featuring, uh… oh yeah. Marshmallow Peeps.

It should surprise no one that there’s a rendition of The Last Supper in there:

jesusandhispeeps