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This sounds like a question Gene Rayburn would have asked on The Match Game. Here’s the correct answer: Rip Torn was so drunk that he didn’t know that the bank broke into and fell asleep in was not his home. That is really drunk:
Hard-drinking actor Rip Torn was taken in handcuffs Monday morning to [...]

I’ve been watching the coverage of the devastation in Haiti and I’m having a hard time wrapping head around how awful the devastation is. The only characterization that comes close is hell on earth. Imagine what it must be like there right now. People are buried under rubble and calling out for help as people [...]

The next time you feel like venting about your boss on Twitter or Facebook, double check that you didn’t add your boss as a friend first.  That way you can avoid making the same snafu this person did.
Hat tip:  Althouse

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you have a wonderful day with your friends and family. Today we are going to my parents’ house where we’ll have Thanksgiving dinner with them.
Although we are experiencing an economic upheaval there is still much to be thankful for. I am thankful for the unconditional love [...]

The reason: there are too many exceptions like veil and vein. However, the Brits seem to have lopped off the second half of the rule: “i before e except after c, unless the sound is an ‘a’ as in neighbor or weigh.”   This is a partial list of words where ei has an “a” [...]

When I read this article from Fox News I was so stunned that I had to reread it. I was sure I had misread it:
A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.
Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. [...]

This is a story we don’t hear very often. A husband in Santiago, Chile, is just as committed to his wife who has been in a coma for 14 years as he was the day he married her. This gentleman doesn’t care how long his wife remains in her coma; he said he will remain [...]

I’m on the road today on my way to Las Vegas. I will have some things to say tomorrow.

Jenna and Barbara Bush wrote a letter to the Obama girls and gave them some advice about growing up in the White House. Jenna and Barbara were only seven years old when their grandfather George H.W. Bush was elected president. They had many childhood experiences in the White House and wanted to share what they [...]

I wonder because the Detroit Lions have reached a level of badness that has never existed before in the NFL. How bad? Well, today, for the first time ever in NFL history, the Lions finished the season 0-16. No team has ever lost so many games, and it’s the first time since 1976 that a [...]