Archive for the 'Society and cultcha' Category
The urge to conserve goes mainstream. Headlines like that are weird to me, because it’s always seemed mainstream to me….
AT&T to ditch the payphone business
Closed Published by Charles Kuffner December 10th, 2007 on Off the KuffThe day in which our nation’s youth will completely fail to grasp the whole Superman/phone booth thing draws ever closer….
Looking for a special gift for that devout atheist in your life? It might be harder than you think to…
Are plastic bags evil? Some places think so. In recent years, countries from Ireland to Australia have passed laws to…
This is a worthy project. A local animal welfare group today will launch an ambitious effort to stop the euthanasia…
sigh Why must the Chron mess with my comics? The good news is that, Monday through Saturday, one page of…
How the Candy Man stole Halloween
Closed Published by Charles Kuffner October 31st, 2007 on Off the KuffHappy Halloween, everyone! We’re going to be up to our clavicles in Trick or Treaters this evening - I’ll post…
Oh my God. This story of the incredibly messy, vicious, and tawdry divorce fight between right-wing sugar daddy Richard Mellon…
Bummer. The messages in fortune cookies are typically vague, banal and optimistic. But some cookies are now serving up some…
From the Things I Don’t Quite Understand Department: Asking Daddy’s permission to marry his daughter. Before Bob Hunt dropped to…