Putin

yeah, so Putin kissed a boy's stomach.  Biggus dealus.  When I was a wee lad of about four or five years, my uncles would give me what were known as "belly-busters", where they would blow raspberries against my stomach.  It had the exact same effect as tickling.

My family was probably quite reckless by mainstream media standards.  My brother and I would habitually ride in pickup truck beds, with and without the camper covering.  There's a picture of my brother, two years old, "flying" six feet in the air.

KSTD

You know how sometimes a radio station changes formats, and they play some gimmick while they search for replacements for everyone they fired?  Like while Sunny 97 was becoming Mix 96.9, they played spooky wind storm noises and church bells. 

Well, the next radio station to do this should adopt KSTD's format.  So popular, Lore made a sequel!

Take my planned economy, please!

A recently boingboing'd link to an article on jokes told during Communist reigns makes no mention of Yakov Smirnoff's claims that he performed stand-up in Russia, and had to submit his act to the Department of Jokes every year, and thus couldn't respond to hecklers.

The phrase "communism exposed itself to Czech and Jewish traditions of humour" makes me curious about Czech traditions of humor.W