Not the fake ad

If you read The Ann Arbor Observer and like to search for the fake ads they run every month, here's a tip. It isn't the one advertising a book called Many Believable Lies, written by some hack named McConnell. That one's real.

Don't mention the war!

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

Visualize John Cleese in his role as Basil Fawlty, Director of Customer Satisfaction at Fawlty Towers, doing his Hitler imitation for a bunch of visiting Germans. Then read this piece about L. Brooks Patterson, doing his version.

The man is -- unique. That's all I can say. I especially like the picture of him using a comb to simulate a Hitler mustache.

Ha! You thought I was making that up! Made you look!

Inevitable, I suppose

The Internet has come of age, now in its twentieth year. A woman over in West Michigan is accused of setting up a FaceBook account for the purposes of ... wait for it ... harassing herself. Read about it here, if you want. Personally, I'd rather skip the details and know nothing more than the bare fact.