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Life imitates art…

A Tucson, Ariz., man was arrested after a foul odor led police to discover he had been living with his mother’s decomposing corpse.

“The person was found in a bathtub, I believe, and may have either been bound or was found in some circumstance [for police] to believe she may not [...]

Maybe if we Wish Real, REAL Hard…

How stupid is the bureaucratic beast? This stupid: the EPA is fining oil companies $6.8 million for not adding cellulosic ethanol to gasoline as REQUIRED BY LAW! The punch line? Cellulosic ethanol doesn’t actually exist.

This all stems from the inaccurately named “Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007” which mandates the use of [...]

Dear LA Times: W Magazine = Also Racist?

Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times:

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...]

Myocardial Infraction

Ay caramba! Mexican medics are drawing catcalls after they dropped a heart being rushed to a hospital for a transplant.

Mexico City police say they used a helicopter to deliver the heart in “a rapid, precision maneuver.” But after exiting the chopper, a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto [...]

This kind of sneaked by a lot of people…

We have things classified top secret because????

From The Washington Times via Neptunus Lex

OBAMA TO SHARE SECRETS

President Obama signaled Congress this week that he is prepared to share U.S. missile defense secrets with Russia.

In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama [...]

What Can You Do With $40?

Two of these I guess….

Obama is off his rocker. From WhiteHouseDossier.com:

President Obama is stepping up his PR war against House Republicans with a just-scheduled 12:15 pm ET appearance at the White House to tout a new campaign highlighting the tax break families will lose if the partial payroll tax holiday is not [...]

Crack Kills

I am NOT my brother’s keeper:

A South Carolina man’s brother died after police said he was forced to eat cocaine hidden in his brother’s backside.

Both brothers were taken into custody on allegations they had drugs in their car.

But police told Charleston, S.C., TV station WCIV there were additional drugs hidden in 23-year-old [...]

I Guess It All Depends On What You Consider The Workplace

For thsoe of you who didn’t see this last week…one of the most absolutely stupid and politically corrrect pronouncements that has ever come out of Washington.

Lawmakers Blast Administration For Calling Fort Hood Massacre ‘Workplace Violence’

Published December 07, 2011

Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre [...]

Repeat After Me… “Honey, Can We Please Move?”

One would think asking a spouse to move away from a bad neighborhood to a better neighborhood would be a matter of conversation — perhaps some disagreement or negotiation in most marriages… one would think… unless one was married to this freak:

She split her own lip with a pin, scraped her knuckles with sandpaper [...]

Prison Time is Too Good

The remains of at least 274 war dead were dumped in a Virginia landfill by Air Force personnel at Dover AFB.  Story at the link… prepare to be pissed and appalled.

http://yhoo.it/vWRO2S

UPDATE: Outlaw points out in the comments that the bad guys here were contractors not USAF personnel

But First — Some Unfinished Business

What happens when we die? The soul goes wherever the soul goes (I like to think it takes a train, but that’s because I grew up in the 1970s), but the body? iO9 has this nice little story called “10 Bodily Functions That Continue After Death”:

10. Nail and hair growth (by technicality)

[...]

Vlad Putin, Aphrodisiac?

What follows is an ad for Vladimir Putin stolen from Wired’s DANGER ROOM…

According to the cunning linguists at Danger Room the ad is…

Titled with the double entendre (in English, at least), “Let’s Do It Together,” (it) follows a teenaged everyman as he chases after an attractive girl in a polling station. She [...]

This Is Gay

No really:

A 19st rugby player suffered a stroke while training – and discovered when he woke up that he was gay.

Chris Birch, 26, had proposed to his girlfriend and worked in a bank when he suffered a freak accident in the gym.

The rugby-loving Welshman was trying to impress his friends with [...]

I’ll Take WTF Were They Thinking? For $800 Alex.

I ran across a post at BoingBoing (the effing fascists who banned me for deigning to criticize Occupier BS — but hey they still have cool stuff sometimes) that linked to this old Schick ad.

h/t: LiveJournal’s Photobucket

The days were long

The memories vague

Of the Day My Love Died

From Bubonic [...]

Lubed Up For Swinging

It’s called a “baby swing” for a reason. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

An unidentified 21-year-old man allegedly made a $100 bet with his friends that he could fit in a child’s swing at Blue Rock Springs Park, police said.

After lubing himself with liquid laundry detergent, he shimmied into the swing and its [...]

That Was A Close Shave

Sheriff’s deputies are closing in on suspects from a troublemaking Amish splinter group in Ohio who have broken into homes and cut off the beards and hair of other Amish men.

Authorities tell HuffPost Crime they are planning to arrest at least four men who are followers of Sam Mullet, a bishop who Jefferson [...]

Class Photo

Obama needs to be noticed.  Check out the expressions on the two people on the ends of the row behind him.

h/t Jonah

Can’t You See How Busy He Is?

H/TCDR Salamander again! Visit him he has a lot of stuff worth reading.

Kim and the NKA get funky!

Do NOT Order the Chocolate Twist

A New Jersey woman, has been arrested for selling sex while working at Dunkin Donuts in Rockaway, New Jersey:

Ordering “extra sugar” at the Dunkin’ Donuts along Route 46 in Rockaway Township apparently got you more than just a sweet cup of coffee.

Police say 29-year-old Melissa Redmond, of nearby Mine Hill, was arrested [...]

Meat Loaf — R.I. Put That Computer Down!

Rock shouter singer Meat Loaf collapsed on stage during his July 28 concert in Pittsburgh and was unconscious for 10 minutes. The singer was then rushed to the hospital where he died got up and finished the entire concert.

Thousands of terrified fans saw the 63-year-old Bat Out of Hell singer collapse in the [...]