Raconteur Report

  Guns are fun. But they're just tools. Sometimes lifesaving ones, but not really different from hammers or hacksaws. (The former are ju...

  We return to the topic of generalization and specialization. Because of another one from Wilder's blog. RTWT . We'll be here when ...

h/t  Mike   Dylan's return from seclusion and conversion to Christianity sparked this album, and this was the first single cut loose fro...

Lucky you: A Monday Medical chat, days early. Today's subject: The average time for a minor wound to heal is a week to 10 days. If you...

  h/t  ASM  @  Borepatch Good on this guy from Oz for calling it like it is. Our so-called "news reporting" on ABCNNBCBS looks lik...

  h/t  Peter   "Play stupid games: win stupid prizes." Ignore this reality at your own peril. The easiest way to "Get off the...

  h/t  Wilder This is all John Wilder's fault. Yes, the John Wilder. (I love that meme-joke. It still cracks me up. And God bless his pa...

  h/t  WRSA RTWT Make plans now to brighten up your golden years.

  So solly.

  I'm not a Fatboy Slim fan. Christopher Walken? Another story entirely. In one of the music viedos acclaimed "Best Of All Time...

 

h/t  Angus   Priceless. The only thing funnier and more appropriate would be if they inserted it, fired it, and it somehow went off, live on...

 

h/t ASM @  Borepatch The award if We ran the Oscars any time in recent memory.   For those unfamiliar with the origin of "sour grapes...

  h/t  Daily Timewaster

  Modern English's wondrous one and only hit, still going strong nearly 40 years later.

  h/t  WRSA

  I'm Here. From Phil, at Busted Knuckles. RTWT. Truer words were never spoken. Most of you know what you should be doing. (I can think ...

  The (English) Beat's best-performing song, with magical riffs and a tuning mistake that drove it to being a mid-range dance hit on bot...

  In case 1980's Blues Brothers didn't let you know John Landis loves him some classic rhythm and blues, in 1985, John Landis hired ...