Keeping our border safe

This parade of t-shirts will subside eventually — no, really! — but in the meantime, here’s a shirt celebrating Michigan’s role in the defense of the United States’ northern border:

The Mitten Stiff-Arm shirt is now available in the BSP Store.

Happy Christmas

I hope you all had an outstanding Christmas!

(Garfield Minus Garfield.)

The IU School of Walking Through Walls

I spent several days last week in Bloomington, Indiana, the home of Indiana University; when I was on campus, I saw a unique building design concept:

I’ve heard of schools that are hard to get into, but that’s just ridiculous.

This should answer all your questions

As always, there’s a little bit too much truth to What The Duck … which is probably why it’s funny.

Education: Ph.D in Golden-Brown Tastiness

Not too long ago, I was driving in Chelsea when I glanced at the Big Boy sign and noticed an unusual message:

What would a pumpkin pancake’s application look like?

Product marketing: for when you have a product

I’m down in Montgomery, Alabama right now visiting Legal Counsel Justin, and yesterday we meandered into the local Bass Pro Shop to get in touch with our outdoorsy sides. I got in touch with my outdoorsy side by buying a pair of fingerless gloves (late-season football games and local ice arenas can get cold), and as I was on my way to the front of the store to pay for the gloves, I spotted a product display with a curiously redundant product name and slogan:

I could understand that slogan if the product name was vague and esoteric, but the intended use of a product named “coldgear” seems obvious enough to render clarification unnecessary … unless they were afraid that potential customers might think it was gear for when you have a cold, rather than gear for when it’s cold.

I coulda been a contender

Like many high schools these days, Chelsea High School has an electronic sign by its main entrance; it informs the local community of important details like upcoming sporting events, notable school events, and the time and temperature (although one day it listed an obviously erroneous temperature of 126 degrees, so you might want to use a more reliable source like weather.com). Most of the events are fairly typical — football games, cross country meets, school picture days — but when I drove to the high school the other day, the sign listed a high school competition I didn’t know existed. (The following picture is unaltered.)

From what I hear, the Chelsea Boys should do well at regionals.

We’re sorry; your emergency cannot be completed as dialed

While I was finding links for last week’s football post, I started looking for the website of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. But when I typed in fema.gov — the correct address — I was confronted with this: