Table scraps:

♣MARRIAGE-LOVING CONSERVATIVE columnist Betsy Hart in 1999: "Government has acted to undermine the sanctity, permanence, and prominence of marriage and thereby to breakup the family in a number of ways. Two examples: Allowing easy divorce..." And here's columnist Betsy Hart last week, writing about her soon-to-be ex-husband: "I loved him. I believed we were close, and that I was loved and faithfully cherished in return. But I was wrong. So, when he finally left, my shock and grief were total." Yeah, Betsy, looks like the government really ruined that one for you. I bet the gays had a hand in it too. (via Obscure Store)

♣HOW COMPLETELY UNNATURAL is this woman's pose? It looks like she's playing the carnival game in which you strap on a velcro suit and jump into a velcro wall. But alas, she's actually just one of many unfortunate models sporting unfortunate threads, as cataloged here. This is a pretty funny site, especially this great collection of liquor store-owning family photos.

♣BE STILL, MY heart! Here's a blog devoted to ripping apart, on a daily basis, all the totally awful comics in newspaper comics pages. And by "all the totally awful comics," I mean, you know, just about all of them. This is a slight hobby of mine, I admit, but I love to see this blogger's devotion to the cause. Rock it, brother!

♣WHAT HAPPENS WHEN the bread shop slices a loaf lengthwise, instead of down? This.

♣COULD THIS BE the single most absurd transition in music-journalism history? This article begins by discussing a band's lead singer's breasts, and then, when it's time to actually address the music, we're treated to the following: "...now that we've roped you in with the mams, you should stick around for the jams." Oh man, that's really something special.

♣CALL ME A stickler, but I think this is ginormously dumb: Merriam-Webster's Top Ten Favorite Words Not in the Dictionary.

♣AND THEN, THERE'S this. Oh, and this!

Posted by Jason Feifer at June 22, 2005 12:54 AM