From Yahoo news comes a story of immense proportions:
Having taught Thailand’s elephants to paint, dance and play musical instruments, their Thai handlers are now toilet-training the beasts, media reported.
Handlers — known as mahouts — have installed giant human-style toilets at a camp in the northern city of Chiang Mai to try to rid the tourist […]

So have you heard about this jackass who is selling advertising space on his forehead for one month? I guess he netted something like $37,000 for a completely pointless stamped on ad for an anti-snoring product. His name is Andrew Fischer.
I’m kind of torn over the whole thing. On the one hand, it’s always […]

In an effort to shed a little more light on what I’m all about for people visiting here who are confused or just don’t get it, I’m going to put together a “Frequently Asked Questions” section on my site. I definitely get a particular set of questions over and over again, so maybe this will […]

I’ve not read a ton about the Sufis, but anytime I do, I always find particular gems like this:
These words mean nothing except to the initiated! Beware! Do not say, “I have understood.” The more you understand and grasp these words, the farther you will be from understanding them. Their meaning comes in not understanding. […]

I finally heard back from our friend who wrote to me about how I’m an atheist and how atheists are stupid and how they hope I burn in hell or something. Read the original note and my reply here. I’m actually surprised they left a real email address, because usually when people tell me off […]

I can’t fucking believe this is real. This to me for some reason is one of the most dire of all recent news events that I have read. I think it’s because it’s the kind of small scale thing that really shows the intensity of the infestation of whatever fucked up force is currently at […]

Condoms stretched over ice cream cones, pointing at the summer sun as vanilla drips out like semen on the sidewalk. Millions melted into the pavement, each one harboring tiny seeds and secrets and religions all their own. Magnifying glasses concentrating the sun’s rays down into the deepest crevices a sidewalk can hold. An arms race […]

This happens to me all the time. I’m not sure why. I’ll spend some time reading about something or talking to someone about a particular topic. And then shortly thereafter, I will be browsing through my referral logs of the search terms that people use to get to my site, and I find overt references […]