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On the morning of May 30, 1893, the circus came to town unexpectedly in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. A circus train convoy chock full of circus animals fatefully rounded a bend of a rural Pennsylvania mountain. The train was approaching a bend that was notorious for crashes. While 17-car coal trains could negotiate  the steep mountainside with just one […]

by kara on August 10, 2015

Debate Ready.

by kara on August 6, 2015

Who let Pixels Happen? The Sony Execs Behind Adam Sandler’s Newest Turd. via Gawker.com I’ve never even heard of this movie, but this takedown is pretty great. “How did people whose job is to make good movies—and make money—do the opposite?”

by kara on August 5, 2015

In case any of you have a scheduling conflict and can’t watch the debate and/or the little league forum, let me recap it in advance: Reagan Benghazi repeal Obamacare Reagan tax reform Reagan Iran Deal, Bad Common Core Reagan Cecil the Lion Hillz joke Reagan This administration’s failed policies Reagan Some Tea Party anti-bailout rhetoric […]

cry for whatever the fck makes you sad.

by kara on August 5, 2015

The ferocity of the response to the lion-killing story has been breathtaking. Today I see something called “#wedontcryforlions” trending on Twitter? I’m too bored to see what it is all about, but wtf? I am happy when anybody is crying over ANYTHING these days, at least it proves that we still haver feelings. When the […]

Hillary’s new campaign ad is right up my alley, using good old gothic horror movie argle bargle to tease at all the Republicans who are simultaneously not scientists but 110 percent sure there’s no such thing as Global Warming. This is really something I can wrap my head around.

by kara on July 28, 2015

Often enough, I tell myself that I’m too reflexively harsh on my ideological opposites…then I read stories like the lion slaying dentist this and Huckabee’s fucking dog torturing spawn, and I want to cut a bitch. He shot a tame lion that had been lured away from a national park. Why not just go to a zoo […]

Most Dangerous Games: Jumping Shoes

by kara on July 28, 2015

They say that it’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. Technically, the same applies to broken bones, gashed cheeks, poisoning, and third-degree burns. I was recently reminded by a childhood friend that as a kid I was always in a state of disrepair; something stitched up, something in a cast. My dad, […]

Monday, Monday

by kara on July 27, 2015

The same people who are bloviating about how a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear weapons program is BAD are the same morons who told the American people that the United States could conquer the Middle East in a matter of weeks by invading Iraq. And who said that China would never join the war to […]