What are the odds?
Mafia boss arrested while watching Mafia TV show
Photo of Michele Catalano courtesy of Reuters.com
So let’s say you’re this guy featured center in the glamour shot above. You’re a mobster. Not just any mobster mind you, you’re in the Mafia and a “senior commander” under the Boss at that. Earlier in the [...]
Archive for November, 2007
30 Nov
Cruel Irony
30 Nov
Scott Adams is a Genius!
As the creator and epitomization of the world renown comic Dilbert, Scott Adams has a blog he frequently posts to and with predictable regularity shares intellectual insights and ideas that both entertain and boggle the minds of his loyal audience.
This is one such gem. (photo is linked to blog post)
Photo courtesy of some website I [...]
28 Nov
Book Review: Matthew Reilly’s "Scarecrow"
This character is in league with the ultimate thematic bad asses of history. Take the best macho heroes from fiction: Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), Bond (Sean Connery or Daniel Craig), John McClane (Bruce Willis), the boys from Hot Fuzz, and the driver in Transporter (played by none other than Jason Statham) among others, and Shane “Scarecrow” [...]