"When Groucho Was Asked For An Explanation Of The Title, He Quipped, 'Take Two Turkeys, One Goose, Four

Sadly, yes.

Get it?

Not that home ownership is all that alluring these days anyway. The dark secret of real estate is that every house is the Amityville Horror. Or even worse, it's the Money Pit and you're married to Shelley Long.

I finally learned how to make GIFs, which is great because it allows me to eloquently illustrate my reaction to ads trying to convince me that Hot Pockets are gourmet food.

I wish I had this hedgehog's moves.

A hedgehog dancing to Lily Allen’s “Fuck You.” I did it in like 10 minutes, don’t judge me.

I decided to break the law to provide a necessary medical service because women were dying at the hands of butchers and incompetent quacks, and there was no one there to help them. The law was barbarous, cruel and unjust. I had been in a concentration camp, and I knew what suffering was. If I can ease suffering, I feel perfectly justified in doing so.

Dr. Henry Morgentaler, a Canadian doctor who was arrested four times for performing abortions, but whose arrests eventually led to the 1988 Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the country. He died this week at the age of 90. His obituary can be found in the NY Times. (via nailure)

If you ever want to sample the KTMA episodes (aka Season Zero) of Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Phase IV" isn't a bad one to start with. The movie (the only feature directed by Saul Bass) is interesting enough to carry through the gaps in the mostly improvised riffing and slow enough so the jokes help when they hit.

Admit it. Before you expanded the image, you read it as "Donald Duck Gets F-'d Up."

And then you did expand the image and saw the donkey before you read the title correctly and completely got the wrong idea.

Donald Duck Gets Fed Up (Whitman, 1940) via ha.com

The TRS-80s are coming! They'll be unstoppable with their 16k of RAM! Keep watching the skies!

The Computers Are Coming! [Uptade 1980]; 666-1984.

A Publication of: The Southwest Radio Church P. O. Box 1144, Oklahoma City, OK, 73101.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Now I love this game more than ever.

Ice Hockey - Famicom Disk System (1988, Nintendo)