Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

Try the Morocco Diet today!
It’s easy! Just:
Walk instead of drive.
Don’t use air conditioner.
Don’t eat anything that has been to a factory.
Don’t eat or drink anything from 4:30 AM to 6:30 PM during Ramadan.
Do eat whatever you want from 6:30 PM to 4:30 AM. Really, knock yourself out. You can’t eat enough. The weight […]

This guy from Slate explains why learning Arabic is so hard. A must read.
But the ferociously unfamiliar grammar sets us all adrift. Arabic is a VSO language, which means the verb usually comes before the subject and object. It has a dual number, so nouns and verbs must be learned in singular, dual, and […]

This is my assignment for class later today. I had to write a sentence for each vocab word on page 25 of my little book. I just wrote it myself, and still can only read it very, very slowly. Arabic starts on the right and reads moving left, of course. Even the question […]

Madness!

From a small rural library in central Florida with a very worn keyboard (keeeeeysss stiiiicck) and 800 x 600 monitor (”the letters are so big!”), I read on Peter Krupa about the ArmsControlWonk, who has some good data and insight about North Korea’s FAILED nuke test Sunday night.  The news I’ve been reading on my […]

I leave Louisville today. Bye.
Madness!
 
 
 
 
 
Madness!
 

Because I care!
 
Madness!

Link to the top ten Weird Al videos.
 Madness!

I used to delete my spam folder every so often after a quick survey to see if anything I wanted got through, or to see if there were any really good deals on male enhancement, or to see if I could refinance at less than prime, or to see if anyone from the third world […]

I think that I meet the clinical criteria for fast-food addiction.
The 12 steps include:
1) Hardees
2) Wendy’s
3) Arby’s
4) Burger King
5) the Wendy’s near work
6) McDonalds
7) Thorton’s gas station (love those sausage-biscuits)
8) KFC
9) Chik-fil-a
10) Subway
11) Sonic
12) White Castle
 These twelve steps might not be in the right directions, but  . . . um, there’s also Little Ceasars.  Pizza Pizza.
 
Madness. […]

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Great news! I’ve purchased this domain for four more years. Four more years! It’s like I’m president or something. My vanity knows no bounds!
Madness!

 
Madness!