January
2003
January 1
• News:
Stupid New Year's jokes, Americans are fatter than ever (again),
University of Virginia band hijinks, Scottish medicine, Diana Ross drunk
again, a jackass named Jack Ass sues Jackass.
• Essay:
New Year's celebration sounds, Fahrenheit vs. Celsius, New Year's
resolutions.
January
2
• News:
Internal desire for deadlines, annual list of banned words, more PLA
posts of greatness.
• Essay:
Site stats discussion for the month of December.
January
3
• News:
Jordan triumphantly returns to Chicago, Kill Bill trailer and
discussion, the first baby of 2003 has two mommies, Redford's credit
card weasel story.
• Essay:
More on site stats; funny search strings, etc.
January
4
• News:
NFL playoffs and Michael Vick discussion, best blogs of the year winners
announced, LA going to regulate cyber cafes.
• Essay:
Girls and porn. Why girls don't like porn, why they shouldn't like it,
and more.
January
5
• News:
Disastrous football prediction aftermath, shameful episode in US WWII
history, the Raelians turn out to be lying kooks (big surprise), article
about Finnish prisons.
• Essay:
The Bachelorette hypothetical discussion.
January
6
• News:
More playoff football foolery, massive December mail bag, more scary old
people driving news, female Viagra hunt, Prozac approved for children.
• Essay:
Religion in the news: The evils of Islamic law, Christian candy cane
nuts, God's Outreach Ministry murdering children.
January
7
• News:
The joys of night wind, weird search strings, California getting
thirsty, train kills idiot, Australian wild boar hunt.
• Essay:
Hot chick who likes me (with photo), car crash takes out my power.
January
8
• News:
Atlanta Falcons forum referrals and sports blog discussion, cute baby
rats, Mr. Blackwell's worst dressed list, cool new Chrysler super bike,
weblog of the year award voting.
• Essay:
More hot chick discussion with photos going both ways.
January
9
• News:
D2 columns are too "inside" for the general public, Everquest
customer service is a disaster, drunks turning to Listerine, PLA post
about the Freedom Riders.
• Essay: Terminator 3 discussion
and trailer, ridiculous Pamela Anderson photo sales, LotR:RotK photos
and bitching.
January
10
• News:
Victoria's Secret complaints on The Smoking Gun, stupid drunk suicide
trick, suicide on an airplane.
• Essay:
The Two Towers extended review/discussion.
January
11
• News:
"Where did you come from" begins, obesity takes decades off
your life, Molly Ivins scores some points, Iraq Attack no matter
what? Germans don't get sarcasm, and neither do children.
• Essay:
Stupid cop tricks: corruption and railroading in Dallas, dumb undercover
cop gets shot as a robber, Detroit cop cuts off a woman's finger,
Tennessee cops blow away a family pet.
January
12
• News:
Big hits from D2 site pimping, Malawians out of control, Pete Townshend
and kiddy porn, a dead Bee Gee.
• Essay:
NFL Playoffs discussion.
January
13
• News:
Superbowl preparation security bullshit, Al Goldstein's big mouth, Anna
Kournikova's ass patch examined.
• Essay:
Japanese copyright infringement, and what the rest of the business and
entertainment world can learn from it. Lawyers especially.
January
14
• News:
More stupid security bullshit for the Superbowl, the stupidest drug
runner ever, one of the stupidest armed robbers ever, a bad place to
park, amusing soccer hooligans on tour.
• Essay:
Pull ups, muscles, and vaguely homoerotic sentiments
January
15
• News:
Yet more Superbowl security stuff, mysterious Jenny Hyun forum
referrals, American Music Awards photo album, over-reacting SWAT teams,
dirty water balloon, baby animal brassiere storage system.
• Essay:
Nicole Kidman on the Tonight Show, with discussion of her perfect
ass. With pictures. Including this one. January
16
• News:
Spooky circling penguins at the SF Zoo, some Russian dick gets frozen, Shania
Twain pics.
• Essay:
Abortion.
January
17
• News:
San Diego "winter" weather, typical Ari Fleischer weaseling,
American's don't know shit about 9/11 or Iraq, site visitor location.
• Essay:
Snowboarding and my attempted personal ad dating via it, many years ago.
January
18
• News:
Funny pictures, scam to get nude girl photos, old hard drive data
issues, Missy Elliot's car gets wrecked, top 10 conspiracy theories of
the year, child-biting dog gets a name change.
• Essay:
I'm ugly, and then I'm angry, and then I'm naked. With photographic
evidence. All of which segues into a discussion about why women
are weird for not liking porn.
January
19
• News:
Stupid radio station contest, more vampirific Malawi foolishness, North
Koreans are evil baby killers (or so the media would have us believe),
and man-boobies, for fashion.
• Essay: Reader non-hate mail and
more on girls and how they don't like to look at willies.
January
20
• News:
Quick pasta sauce recipe, boring NFL playoff games, Kevin Mitnick
returns, Russell Crowe is fightin' again.
• Essay:
A new adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles that's worth
watching.
January
21
• News:
Planned food preparation walkthroughs, Golden Globe Awards pictures,
ugliness in the Gaza Strip, another of the sudden "North Korea is
evil" planted news stories, Edgar Allen Poe's mysterious birthday
visitor.
• Essay:
Discussion of The Alienist, by Caleb Carr.
January
22
• News:
How the British view Dubya, idiot quotes from Athletes and owners,
Andrew Luster; rich rapist.
• Essay:
The Alienist again, wrapping things up.
January
23
• News:
Carding seniors for near beer, the idiocy of an SUV tax break, Bush's
recent racism, ACLU spy warnings.
• Essay:
Rats: Pet Kingdom sales, adolescent care, incoherent humorousness.
January
24
• News:
Cute rat pic, another ridiculous internet technology patent,
non-freezing Minnesota lake, ads before movies are proliferating.
• Essay:
Pee Wee's kiddy porn bust, society's attitudes towards children and
their sexual interests, what is kiddy porn, and much more on the
subject.
January
25
• News:
More bitching about the hot winter weather, amusing Darwinian death, ass
or elbow?, scary old person driving story, unsurprising security
findings related to the Superbowl.
• Essay:
Middle Ages style bath, video card death, kiddy porn blog feedback.
January
26
• News:
Interesting propaganda posters and cartoon pilot, The Onion reports on a
skeptic being pitied.
• Essay:
The disaster that was the Australian Open, and Superbowl discussion and
picks.
January
27
• News:
Superbowl-fueled hatred of all mankind, gloating over accurate game
predictions, Superbowl movie trailer discussion, and the game itself.
• Essay: The Angel of Darkness,
by Caleb Carr.
January
28
• News:
The ugliest kitten ever, Shania Twain picture, a new gay plague in LA,
Spanish psychological torture cells.
• Essay:
Catchy song, cute rodent pictures.
January
29
• News:
Annoying low horsepower car engine physics, more Oz Open oddness, no
more red ink on school papers.
• Essay:
Reader request for The Meaning of Life, and my half-hearted reply.
January
30
• News:
Awesome gourmet dinner with dad's friends, car acceleration physics,
bondage chick from Joe Millionaire,
• Essay:
Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card, and the entire Ender
Series.
January
31
• News:
Porn viewership by country in Europe, palm pilot games while the senate
is in session is bad publicity, new UK sex laws, a woman searches for
quality porn.
• Essay:
Random photos and discussion. Giant snake, bamboo plant, painting,
and wet bar decoration.
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