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What’s the story behind Tampa’s “Sultan’s Clock”?

Photo by Yours Truly. This clock, located by the northwest corner of East Kennedy Boulevard and Marion Street, doesn't have a…

8 years ago

Meanwhile, on the internet…

Click the comic to see it at full size. Alternate title: Scott Adams' blog, summarized in a single, non-Dilbert comic.…

8 years ago

Remember when…?

Here's the text: Remember when watching an unpredictable womanizer in a toupée rant about someone named Khan was how we…

8 years ago

Reading list for Friday, July 29, 2016: Open vs. closed, liberal smugness, and doomsday prepper manuals

The new political divide "Farewell, left versus right," reads the subtitle in this Economist article. "The contest that matters now is open…

8 years ago

The one on the right is a sleep specialist

Here's a screen capture from Ici Radio-Canada Télé, the French version of CBC Television, the big public TV broadcaster in…

8 years ago

Florida of the day: You had one job

Here's a newly-painted "SCOHOL" crossing in Deltona, Florida. I was always under the impression that those crossings were painted using…

8 years ago

Florida of the day: It’s the 25th anniversary of the Pee-Wee Herman incident

Photo via The Smoking Gun. Click to see the source. On July 26, 1991, Paul Reubens — better known to the…

8 years ago

This ill-advised “hot lesbians” ad promoting Canadian vs. Saudi oil is real, and not a parody by “The Onion”

My 13 year-old self would've thought "Advertising GENIUS!". "In Canada lesbians are considered hot!" says the promotion that appeared on…

8 years ago