On the heels of those mysterious (and pointy!) housewives, today’s post at I’ll Take Your Photo is strangely on-topic.

Just what we need: a nuclear state in the grip of a power struggle.

I was going to go find out what kind of site the “cheating wives” spam would lead me to (dating? porn? escorts?), but the DNS is not answering for the domains included in the specimens I have available. Google turned up only some discussions of the spam, and of the blogs I checked, only a comment in one of them remarked that all we apparently care about with these women is height, weight, and bra size. And no one involved in that discussion noted that the proportions are freakish. The first housewife listed is 5’9″, 120 lbs, 36c. I mean, I suppose it could be done, maybe even without silicone, but I’m not sure I’d want to see her naked, for fear some protuding bone or boob would put my eye out. I like some curve with my housewife (or working wife, for that matter), thanks.
And yeah, this post is ever so likely to end up attracting search engine hits, but since the spam bots have already found the blog (so we’ve turned comments off everywhere), there’s no use steering now.

Learn all about the Insular Areas in the US, also listed in the CIA Factbook!

Found photos from the Arkansas State Penitentiary.

I hadn’t heard that the wise-cracking Jerry Orbach was battling cancer. Sadly, he didn’t make it.

Why does some Mexican music sound like polkas? Because it is polkas! An interesting story about German immigration to Texas, the invention of the accordion, and that big stew of musical mixing.

The blog of a slide collector. I know the past wasn’t really in those odd colors, but I like to pretend it was.

Oooh, just my speed- flea, swap, thrift and more!

The iTrip (as well, no doubt, as similar devices) is illegal in England. Around here, you have to amplify the signal to be greater than 10mW (ERP) before you’re a pirate.