I would like to thank Mr. Stan James for allowing me to publish his post in whole here on my blog. Here in The Philippines, it seems to me ...

House Minority Leader John Boehner (Congress' top Republican) today, when asked what the Republican party would do to stimulate job grow...

Working its way around the blogosphere today is this story : A video was released by a Republican blogger of a black lady who works for the ...

I don't know why, but I always try to put up posts in chronological order. I wanted to put up a Daily Report on my day last Saturday (h...

Being in The Philippines, I have no idea what is going on in America sometimes... especially in popular culture. However, I can tell you tha...

I finished work earlier than usual today, and Tyson was sitting around looking bored, so I decided to take him for a walk and do another ...

You have to read this to see how funny it is. Apparently some secretary (named Shannon) at an advertising firm lost her cat. She sent an e-...

Comic gets totally zinged by an audience member. Comic gets totally even with just three words.

Sunday... half day. As per usual lately, I didn't do much today: Watched TV, cooked some Jili Chili. At 2:30 in the morning we all wok...

Of course you should have guessed by now, but here's the data: Deportations of illegal immigrants have been steadily rising under Pres...

Not too much going on today. I've bitched to Landlady Maggie (as Landlord Jumz is out of town for 2 weeks) about the fact that my house ...

... and it is funny. This new viral video tearing up YouTube is essentially a fanciful conversation between a phone salesman and a customer ...

Four days ago, Epril went to Parasat and signed us up. "Make sure to get the digital box and digital package so that I can watch World ...

I had seen this link before, but lost it and couldn't post about it. It's a world map, with every country listed as being the best ...

Women are the logical creatures who base every decision on carefully-considered reasoning and the rational and noetic exercise of the mind t...

Epril looking good. Sorry I had to get into the picture and spoil it. Even the Australians got into the Fouth of July spirit. I was up at 5 ...

Read here . It seems like a lot of the Republican talking points about how Obama is handling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are a bit o...

Hat tip to Dew on the Expats CDO Yahoo Group for linking to this image below: I've mentioned it before, but here is statistical and vi...

Coming off Wednesday's post on the oh-so-ugly but oh-so-real flying car (or, more accurately, driveable airplane), comes this followup:...

When the Concorde went out of service in 2003, it was one of the few times in modern history that consumer technology took a step backwards....

The work that Landlord Jumz did on the water system seems, so far, to have been a complete waste... or actually made things worse: The water...

Landlord Jumz finished his repairs on the house, which included some new doorknobs, fixing the kitchen sink, fixing the ceiling in the offic...

Back to life. Epril's back from her trip to Leyte. I have a definite phobia of ferries here in The Philippines. I'll save myself the...

It's fugly, but no doubt it's as close to a proper flying car as we've yet seen: It meets all road safety requirements, and can ...

Do you remember the movie, "Dumb and Dumber"? The two dumbest guys on earth go on a road trip in a dog-shaped van. On the road t...

I've been oversleeping while Epril is on vacation. She's usually my alarm clock, waking up before me, tweeking my nose and giggling ...

Epril and her parents have gone on vacation to the island Leyte. (In my simplified mind-map of The Philippines, Leyte is the north-south ob...

I understand that most European countries — Canada as well — have laws limiting speech against religion, race, or nationality... inflammato...

Poor day of work today. I occasionally get sidetracked with something on the internet that sucks all work interest clean out of my body. I...

Over on the right column of this fabulous ode to everything Jilific, I've added the Jiltastic Archives from my old Thailand blog, Jil In...

I was pondering this today: There are already computer monitors out there that put out more than 2000 horizontal lines of resolution, and th...

AFRICA : The host continent is barely there. It looks like only one or maybe two out of the six original African teams will advance past the...

Not too much going on today. Epril and I had Dave from Kimaya and his fianceé Jessa, along with Steve from around the corner and his wife H...

Just to summarize, the director of the fusion project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory says that in the next few months, the attemp...

A great day today. I was down in front of the TV upon waking to watch Game 7 of the NBA finals. I haven't watched a basketball game for ...

Okay. Here is my first Jungle Juliet. Her name is Mary Jeanne, she's 19, 5 feet 7 inches tall, and is studying computer science at uni...

I just got done reading this article . It claims that (and I'm inclined to believe that) the billion-dollar video gaming industry is dyi...

Nothing too special today. However, in the afternoon I did go with Epril and Susan to a party in Barangay San Antonio. Epril wants me to fin...

Today I joined Susan and Epril at the Grand Caprice Hotel to watch Ednel go through the ceremony in which she "graduated" to being...

The power was out again, the first time in a week. The rain is starting to come more regularly now, meaning that the hydroelectric power wi...