What’s with the “sweetie?”

The chicks really hate to be called “sweetie,” especially when they are the masculine type who don’t want to stay home and cook and clean for her man.
End sarcasm.

The people who manufacture TASERS, those wonderful devices that don’t kill people (with bullets) have convinced an Ohio judge to rule that coroners can’t blame them contributing to the death of people who die immediately after they get TASERed. Seriously:
While they do have a number of scientific studies on which they establish their claims, it’s [...]

I’ll probably get hate mail again accusing me of being pro-drug abuse, but here’s a press release:
Study Confirms Medical Marijuana Pain Relief
University of California Clinical Trial Shows Relief of Neuropathic Pain, Mild Side Effects
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA — A clinical trial conducted at the University of California at Davis and just published online by the Journal of [...]

hurricane, global warming, al gore, Kerry Emanuel

CUTLINE: Nude actors wearing Mickey Mouse masks perform on stage during a rehearsal of the sell-out reinterpretation of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “A Masked Ball” directed by Austrian Johann Kresnik in Erfurt, Germany,
Somehow, I get idea that Disney’s corporate lawyers are girding their loins for legal battle.

My condolences to the family, friends and comrades of Private First Class Shane D. Penley.

And, luckily, he gets HIS ass handed to him.

The links are via the Journal Star. The snarky commentary is my own:

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I see no reason to make a huge deal out of minor crimes and traffic offenses committed by the children of public officials unless there’s some evidence that official tried to interfere with prosecution or [...]

A Kentucky lawmaker has proposed to ban the practice of posting information anonymously on the Internet. Posters would have to leave their real name, email address  and actual physical address with the site owner. The poster’s real name would have to appear on the site. The publisher would be fined $500 the first time an [...]

Out of curiosity, I went looking for any statements Barack Obama and John McCain might have made regarding the crackdown the communist Chinese government is doing in occupied Tibet.
I found this in an Associated Press article:
McCain did not discuss the issue during a 45-minute meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, but told reporters later the [...]

I could not resist running this photo. I believe the man on the right needs no introduction. The guy on the left: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That’s the former pastor of Barack Obama’s church who the right wingers are using the scare Democrats into voting for Hillary Clinton, who the GOP thinks will be easier [...]

You remember all the hate-mail I got when I dared to suggest that those carbon-friendly light-bulbs that the envirowackos are trying to shove down our throats might not really be environmentally friendly because they are filled with mercury?
Turns out I was ahead of the curve on that one:
Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists [...]

Via The Associated Press:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and [...]

What has happened to America? There was a time in this country when people were actually admired for pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and finding a way to make a living, if not prosper, from their hard work and innovation.

Here’s a lesson for all you multi-national businesses out the: When you try to squash one Web site for having the audacity to tell readers embarrassing things about you and your clients, it tends to backfire and generate more publicity than if you had just left well-enough alone.
So that’s why techno-centric blogs are linking to [...]