Week Of 14 May, 2006: Technical Difficulties (Updated)

The post I was preparing for this week seems to have disappeared forever. Below is some of what was to be included (from memory) and other material. Sorry for the delay. Note: The technical difficulties seem to continue, as I am unable to make the headings their usual dark green. WTF?

THINGS TO PONDER
My oven has four racks. What do I do when the instructions tell me to bake something on the middle rack?

WHAT WEBSTER WON'T TELL YOU
Ma'amography (plural noun): An alternative name for women's literature.

ARMED AND DELUDED
Katherine Harris, the dragon-lady and makeover-as-cautionary tale who gave Florida to Bush in 2000, is training for a concealed weapons permit. Could it be that having all the Democrats and Republicants in the state against her Senate campaign is making her paranoid? I can see packing heat becoming a Republicant politicians' rite of passage in the near future.

OUGHTA BE A BUMPER STICKER
Da Pimpmaster General

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Apparently those nutty Skull and Bones blokes really did steal Geronimo's skull last century. When President Bush, grandson of a Skull and Bones member, heard about a recently discovered letter which appears to verify the long-alleged theft, he was heard to say, "Did they find his parachute, too?"

SHOUT-OUT TO ALL MY BLOGGAZ!!!
Check out this blogger's site, and be sure to tell 'em Pete sent ya!