Am I the only whose first thought upon seeing this:

was that at long last, they’re finally coming to take him away, ha ha?

If you’ve ever wondered whether you may have borderline personality disorder, or are close to someone who might, this video is a must see.

U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina (h/t: Tabitha Hale) notes that “only in America” can you have the privilege to run for the U.S. Senate:

She’s right, you know.

One of the downsides to having your heels stuck in tar is that you never end up moving very far. When everyone went shall-issue in the 1990s, NC followed suit, but larded up the right to carry law with so many exceptions that the only real effect of a CHP is to get you out of the even more onerous permit requirement when it comes time to buy. While all but 7 states have had the good sense to abolish “heartbalm” laws such as alienation of affection and criminal conversations (does NC still let you sue over a broken engagement, too?), the most reform even the egregious “Pretty Parts” Turner case could generate is a new law barring suits against people who started dating post-separation – basically the equivalent of saying you can’t be charged with murder if the victim was already dead. And now, while our neighbor to the north is fixin’ to abolish ABC stores outright and allow liquor to be sold in supermarkets, ours considers some itsy-bitsy reforms that once again fall well short. Oh well.

Cussing may be illegal here in the Tarheel State (unless you happen to be in Pitt or Swain County or the cussing appears on your license plate) but our Golden counterpart has gone to the opposite extreme. Starting tomorrow, all Californians are encouraged to “cuss free” for a week. Or maybe not really to cuss per se, so much as to celebrate freedom of cussing. Or something like that.

Apparently, some chicks care more about how much dinner cost you than how much it benefited them. Who knew? Other than guys who have dated chicks, that is.

I’d really like to believe this is some kind of lame parody, but apparently not.

It’s that time of year again. Can’t promise to bowl well (hence the moniker), but will promise that any donations made will go to a good cause.

Didn’t know there was such a holiday, but apparently so.

If I’m a typical customer, Domino’s gutsy move to admit their pizzas were crap and start over will pay off in spades, as I’ve probably purchased more pizzas in the present decade^* than I did in the last two (three?) combined. But it would be interesting to know if my experience is typical. What is yours? And given how well focus grouped New Coke was, vs. how miserably it ended up flopping, is there any way to predict which of these corporate turnarounds will succeed and which ones will fail?

^*Yes, I realize it is a bit counter-intuitive to suggest that we just started a new decade even though we are only 9 years into the current century. The reason for this apparent disconnect is that while we typically identify centuries by their ordinal numbers (e.g., First Century, Second Century, etc.) we don’t usually identify decades that way. Generally, we identify decades by their penultimate digit, making the final year of the Nineteenth Century was the first year of the 1900s, and the final year of the Twentieth Century was the first year of the 2000s.

^**Why 20th, you ask? Because if we’re going to have a zeroth year, we might as well be consistent and have a Zeroth Century, as well. While we’re at it, why not count our fingers from 0 to 9?