Michigan Law Abuse Watch (MLAW) is an organization tracking how runaway lawsuits is resulting in seriously ridiculous warning labels and signs. Like, after the hot McDonald’s coffee lawsuit, we are now seeing "Caution: coffee is hot" warning labels. They held their annual contest of the dumbest warning labels. This year’s winner cautions us to "avoid death". Someone get me a … Read More
Why Did “The Iraqs” Attack Us On 9/11?
This post, from a university professor, is about the most depressing thing I’ve ever read.
Why I’m Against Megan’s Law
This is why: Convicted rapist Michael A. Dodele had been free just 35 days when sheriff’s deputies found him dead last month in his aging, tan mobile home, his chest and left side punctured with stab wounds. Officers quickly arrested Dodele’s neighbor, 29-year-old construction worker Ivan Garcia Oliver, who made "incriminating comments, essentially admitting to his attacking Dodele," the Lake … Read More
The White House Take On Waterboarding Is Laughable
Just take a moment to digest this press briefing with WH spokesperson Dana Perino yesterday. A reporter asked whether the questioning of Abu Zubaydah was in line with “the interrogation program approved by President Bush.” Perino responded by saying, “All have been done within the legal framework that was set out after September 11th…. The entire program has been legal….", … Read More
Lede Paragraphs That Give Me Pause
Daily Mail: Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology. "Firm evidence" such as walking on water, changing water into wine, resurrecting the dead — that sort of thing? UPDATE, IN THE SAME VEIN — … Read More
Update On Paris HIlton
AP: Paris Hilton is looking for a boyfriend and knows exactly what qualities Mr. Right should possess. "Right now I’m single but I am looking for a nice boy," she told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday. "He should be funny,… Check. …smart… Check. …and loyal." Check. "I changed all the light bulbs to energy safe light bulbs and I’m buying … Read More
A Public Service Announcement
On your health:
“Woot” Is Now A Word
Not only that, it’s the "word of the year". (Last year’s "word of the year" was Stephen Colbert’s "truthiness"). It’s actually spelled with two zeroes instead of two os’, as in "w00t". "Woot" is an exclamation of joy or triumph, usually accompanied by a waving of the fist in the air. Although the article doesn’t mention it, I believe it … Read More
101 Christmas Specials Online …from Fanpop
This nice linkable compilation is from the folks at Fanpop. (Believe it or not, they have another list of 101 Christmas specials too!) The EssentialsI’m reposting these from last year’s list because these are the items most people want to see. If you can only watch a couple of holiday specials, these are the ones to watch. This is the … Read More
Glow In The Dark Paint
Little bit of a breakthrough in the glow-in-the-dark world. A company has come up with a new kind of glow-in-the-dark paint. What’s special about it is this: it doesn’t need light to "charge", AND the glow will last for 12 years before it fades (12 years is the "half-life"). The light is not strong — don’t expect it to replace … Read More
Dems Virtually Tied In Iowa, NH, SC
MSNBC: With just slightly more than three weeks until the first nominating contest, three new MSNBC/McClatchy/Mason-Dixon polls show that the Democratic contest isn’t just a dead heat in Iowa — it’s also tied in New Hampshire and South Carolina. In Iowa, Clinton has the lead over Obama, 27%-25% (although that’s within the poll’s 5% margin of error), while Edwards comes … Read More
Would Jesus Believe In The Death Penalty?
Mike Huckabee got big laughs Wednesday night during the YouTube debate when he sidestepped a question about how Jesus might view capital punishment. Huckabee responded by saying Jesus was too smart to run for public office. Funny? Not really. Evasive? Definitely. The Arkansas Times notes the Huckabee has received the question before, and always dodged it. Flashback to 1997, when … Read More
Only My Mom Cares About This Post
USA Today: It turns out that Montpelier High School is not one of the Top 10 public schools in the USA. U.S. News & World Report had listed it as No. 5 in its rankings of the nation’s secondary schools, but the magazine now acknowledges the school really ranked in the nation’s Top 500 public schools. (That still places it … Read More
Church Hero Not So Much A Hero
For the past couple of days, the rightwing blogosphere has been touting and lauding the security guard who stopped the church shooter in Colorado. Here’s Instapundit: COLORADO SHOOTING UPDATE: The "security guard" who stopped the shooter was actually a volunteer parishioner who used her own gun, not a rent-a-cop. Much more from David Hardy, who notes that press coverage tends … Read More