Arthur D. Hlavaty

“Nick Foles, how did you manage to win the Super Bowl despite being intimidated by Tom Brady’s looks?” [Madame Noire]
(And of course, being American, it’s about racism too.)

Great new beauty product!

Thanx to marydell

I have two tiny Caucasian-colored devices that I wear in my ears to raise my hearing level to Moderately Challenged. They are marvels of miniaturization and are priced like that. I believe there are better ones in the price range for people who keep their money in the Cayman Islands.

Suppose they didn’t have to be miniature. Suppose they were permitted to cover the entire ears and surrounding territory. One assumes they could then be better and cheaper. So why not?

We are ashamed of disabilities. Hearing loss is not usually acquired venereally, but the stigma is there. People would know!!! Of course in my case they could find out by speaking softly. And the perceptive ones would adjust.

I’m a nerd; I would cheerfully sacrifice appearance to function, and I would love hearing aids that did that. And I’d get them in bright colors.

Beauty industry branches out from simulated weight loss to de-Hispanification.

Thanx to Shakesville

For the brave: a picture of a woman so hideous that computer technology must be used to turn her into something the American public can stand. Shakesville offers the scary version and the safe version and how to tell which is which.