http://nonsenseuponstilts.com I have a theory about everything. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry, I couldn't resist making a bad pun about the totally awesome news that MLB finally fired some not-so-great umpires. Of course, I'm sure that more went into this decision than their penchant for blowing calls, or else C. B. Bucknor and Angel Hernandez (who somehow wasn't even mentioned in ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/youre-out-2/ Because I would read - and enjoy - a book entitled The Doctoral Candidate and the Ravishing Researcher. http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/why-im-weird/ This is why we shouldn't spread rumors. http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/gossip-is-bad-mmkay/ The post in question, entitled "Bible Ignored, Trainer Dies," is about Tillikum, the Sea World killer whale that killed trainer Dawn Brancheau. I somehow think that enacting biblical-style revenge the first time this animal killed a human wouldn't have been the best idea ever, but I'm just a godless heathen, ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/probably-not-satire-but-who-can-tell-anymore/ Olympic Athletes Hoping to Exchange Bent-Up Medals for Normal Ones http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/this-weeks-onion-headline-that-is-probably-true/ German Luger Chips a Tooth Biting His Medal http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/03/this-weeks-real-headline-that-reads-like-its-from-the-onion/ Finally!! For the suicidal rich person who has everything, who went around the world in 79 days, and who has been flown to space twice, here comes the personal jet pack! Now you can be like the Rocketeer or Elton John and explore the atmosphere all on your own. Although ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/02/mars-aint-the-kind-of-place-to-raise-your-kids/ More Olympics silliness. Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer won the gold medal in the Mens' 5000 meter race. Yippee! That part is pretty awesome. But then he acted like a jerk to a reporter who wanted to interview him afterward. She asked him to identify himself and his country, and ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/02/i-love-the-smell-of-schadenfreude-in-the-morning/ I wonder how sick Tim Gun is of the phrase "make it work." It's a very reasonable and encouraging piece of advice that is uttered by the interviewer  in (or used somewhere in the text of) almost every Tim Gunn interview I've read. If I'm sick of reading it, how ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/02/la-la-la-la-la-i-cant-hear-you-he-cried/ As if the whole Evgeni Plushenko thing wasn't funny enough on its own (and it is), the matter has become even more bizarre, what with the involvement of Russian president Vladimir Putin (his public message to Plushenko said "Your silver is as good as gold."), and Plushenko posting on his ... http://nonsenseuponstilts.com/2010/02/evgeni-plushenko-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/