December, 2007
Who in the hell would choose “Pimp” as a stage name?
I know, I know, you’re thinking, “Jesus H. Christ, Violet is so old and out of it she doesn’t know that ‘pimp’ and ‘ho’ have long since entered the mainstream as acceptable monikers for hip, happenin’ men and women!” Well, Mr. Rhetorical Device, it just so happens that I do know that, but since I [...]
As soon as she’s safely out of Sudan I’m going to have a good laugh about this
My favorite lede from today’s news stories: Great Britain and Sudan are in high-level talks to free a British schoolteacher who was sentenced to 15 days imprisonment after allowing her class to name a teddy bear ‘Mohammed.’ You know, when I was a kid we had high-level talks over nuclear detente. Now we’re down to [...]





