I received today an email from our “IT Training Group” advertising the opportunities to improve our skills. The classes included Windows XP, Word, PowerPoint, and finding your ass with both hands.

The email was sent without a subject line and to a carefully typed-out list of all employees rather than to the “all office” mail alias. I think someone needs to take Intermediate Outlook, pronto.

In other important news: You can now buy a Belle and Sebastian trucker hat; Ted Williams’ family are fighting over his frozen corpse; Nick Nolte has a blog; and Playboy Magazine is instructing people on how to have sex in a Mini.

You can hardly hear the guns over all this din. Six guys just got whacked by a bomb somewhere in Iraq.

bOING bOING gets taken by a hoary old urban legend “law enforcement memo”.

This one always comes from a “top person in law enforcement or the military”, of course.

I await their coverage of the million dollar cookie recipe and the aids infected needles in the movie seats.

In celebration of this fine kids’ book, I thought I’d help O’Reilly and company with some of their future endeavors. I present:

Curious George and the Will to Power
The Hardy Boys Kill a Shitload of Towelheads
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Donald E. Rumsfeld
You’re an Enemy Combatant, Charlie Brown!
Harry Potter and the Liberal Media Agenda
The Phantom Pollbooth
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?
The Big Little Golden Book of Shouting at People and Interrupting Them Until the Commercial Break

Add your own!

P.S. This entry may duplicate because LJ is tits-up today and wasn’t accepting email posts again.

The crooked bail bond company is the one who has the great daytime TV commercials in which a woman is stricken with poverty because her husband is in jail, but is rescued as hubby is delivered home in the arms of…

BAIL GUY!