I just saw two dudes at Target wearing matching Iron Maiden shirts with corresponding “how many points does a penagram have?” hairdos. Unless I missed the memo that the New Haven green over by Yale was having a Concert in the Park featuring Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Norah Jones, hosted by Stephen Hawking, I’m [...]

With only a few hours left before Easter is over, I’m super excited to announce the 2nd annual Easter Egg Hunt for the Homeless. To avoid any confusion, the event isn’t designed to actually help homeless kids, so much as give them something fun to do to keep them out of trouble, with the lure [...]

I had the misfortune today of dealing with someone who reinforced every negative Jewish stereotype imaginable. At the risk of overusing a popular analogy, it was more annoying than having someone scrape a screaming baby across a chalkboard. By the end of the day I was seriously considering converting. I’m not sure what I’d convert [...]

There’s a gym on the way to my new job that has a large sign outside advertising a 1-dollar per day membership fee. I refuse to join any establishment that feels the need to equate my mandatory monetary contributions to how much it would cost to feed an Ethiopian child. I’m all for having healthy, [...]

Ohio police officers get drunk — on purpose – AP Fri Feb 26, 2:56 pm ET DAYTON, Ohio – Law enforcement officers in southwest Ohio were chugging down alcoholic drinks this week as part of a training exercise on how to give field sobriety tests. Several police officers and deputy sheriffs in Montgomery County volunteered [...]

Family ‘Too Fat to Work’ Collects Annual $30,000 Disability Tuesday, March 17, 2009 A British family of four, who receives more than $30,000 a year in benefits because they are “too fat to work,” says they deserve more money, London’s Daily Telegraph reported. Why don’t they open a pizza shop? I’ve never seen a pizza [...]