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A friend is seeking NIH funding for trials w/leukemia patients. Maybe it's you.

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At least Tiresias got to be a lady for a while and experience the female orgasm, which he said was superior to the male sexual experience, which made Hera mad, so she blinded him. But Zeus gave him the power of prophecy in recompense.

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But ol'Zeussy also said that although the prophecies would be correct, no one would believe them. What a kidder! Just ask Jocasta if you don't believe me!

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I tried to divert the whale to fall on a certain house in Alaska.

I missed.

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fapfapfap

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Perhaps even infinitely improbable.

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Do you accept donations of Canadian whisky?

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"just saved Rachel Maddow from being hit by a falling bowl of petunias."

Oh no...not again.

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She's so similar to the god she prays to, that she capriciously (or randomly) chooses not to prevent things from happening which by other people's standards seem downright terrible.

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And what the hell was that swan business about?

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An assassination attempt on the President of the United States, that <i>wasn't widely publicized. </i>

{headdesk}

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30 seconds later: <i>"See what you made me do?"</i>

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I'm in favor of keeping this lady busy with full-time repenting.

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She did prevent that magnitude 8.5 earthquake that didn't flatten Manhattan last month.

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Curses, foiled again!

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