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August 19, 2008

A sad baby story

Have you guys seen this?

This news story is about a baby left in the car for three hours on a hot day who later died. You've got to read to the end and check out the comments from our readers on this one.

Wow.

Any thoughts?

August 13, 2008

No, Dad, I'm not kidding

On my way to physical therapy Saturday, I called my dad in Va.

He and I usually chat on Saturday about whatever explosion-filled, gory, scary or stupid movies we've seen lately or trade family gossip.

This Saturday, I had some bad news.

One of his favorite comedians, Bernie Mac, died.

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June 6, 2008

Her mama is crazy

So, let's say you have a daughter, and she gets raped at 16.

Awful, right?

Then, to add to it, she becomes pregnant from the assault. What do you do?

Well, if you're this woman's mother, you force your child to carry the child to term, and then call her a slut for being raped and getting knocked up in the first place.

Good answer, right?

Not so much.

I think we all can agree that our own mothers do things that make us crazy. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this woman's mama IS crazy.

You guys have to read the rest of this column to get exactly what I'm talking about. I'm with Margo and Jason - she crazy.

Thoughts?

May 23, 2008

Dizzzam

I went to fill up my little Honda CRV today, with gas prices at $3.85 per gallon for regular gas.

Thank goodness I shop at Giant, I thought as I unscrewed the gas cap and prepared to fill up.

Buy using your bonus card, the grocery store offers you gas points for buying groceries.

I have three bonus cards.

Anywho, I scan one of my cards and get 20 cents off each gallon, putting the price down to $3.65 a gallon.

Bonus!

That is, until I started pumping the gas.

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April 24, 2008

A wordsmith's dream

Reporters don't get to use certain words, like penis, often.

Call it what you want (the words crushing oppression come to mind), but some words don't get their due in the newspaper.

So, when a reporter gets to use the words sorcerers, black magic and penises in the first paragraph, you can be assured that the gods of journalism have smiled down upon that writer and granted a rare miracle.

A lucky Joe from the Reuters news service got to do just that in this story.

(cue up "miracle music," with harps and opera singers. . .)

Amazing.

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March 27, 2008

This seal is cool

This video is super cool.

If only I could get my cats to do this.

Hell, if only I could get my cats to do anything!

Well, I can always hope they will dance one day. . .

March 18, 2008

Discipline or child abuse?

So, your toddler is being bad out in public and you've had it up to here. . . what do you do?

Well, according to this mom, you spray the child with cold water.

In this MSN story, a mother disciplined her young child by spraying the kid with cold water.

People who watched her do it were mortified.

These folks have obviously never had a toddler.

Currently, the police are considering whether or not to file charges against her.

Though I commend her for originality, she may want to use a different tactic with her toddler.

She doesn't want the child to be scared of water, does she?

What do you guys think of this method of. . . ah. . . discipline?

March 4, 2008

Are they serious?

I think I may have missed a memo.

Did Victoria's Secret suddenly stop selling barely-there thongs, scandalously sheer teddies and those magical liquid push-up bras?

Has their lingerie been replaced by smocks made to wear while knitting and flannels that tell your man, "Don't even come over to this side of the bed?"

Will their flirty fashion show be replaced with a hour-long discussion with the theme, "We don't have to take our clothes off, to have a good time?"

I ask, because in this news story, the company's CEO said the brand has become, "too sexy."

"We've so much gotten off our heritage ... too sexy, and we use the word sexy a lot and really have forgotten the ultrafeminine," Sharen Turney, Victoria's Secret's chief executive, told analysts on a conference call.

What!?!?!?!

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February 29, 2008

Life would be so much easier

If we could wear something like this every day.

*nocoat.jpg*

At the office, your boss would be like, "(Employee) could you. . . "

And you could just point down to your fashionable coat and not say a word.

Your boss, "But I just need you to. . . "

Again, you'd motion down to your superfly collar and draw a line in the air under it.

Your boss could ask again, but they would just look silly. And, they would definitely not be as cool as you are in this coat.

At home, your spouse/partner/kids/etc. would say, "Did you. . wash clothes, cook dinner, lose the binkie (that's a pacifer, for those who don't have little babies), pay the rent, etc.

Again, you could just point down to your coat.

And it is not only good for work and home, but also at the grocery store, at the used car place or with thos pesky broads at the make-up counter.

The possibilities are really, really endless.

So simple, yet so useful.

Love it.

*The photo is from a fashion show, and was written about by our good friends at www.perezhilton.com

November 25, 2007

Why do they have to be so hard on a sister?

I have just found a travesty of justice, and I wanted to tell you guys about it.

Apparently, you cannot be a hardcore porn star by night, and a school teacher by day.

Who knew?

An Italian teacher, otherwise known as the "Pornoprof," has been suspended from her job.

School officials said her side gig was "not compatible with educational activity." (Insert dirty joke here.)

Aren't they being a little hard on her? So, being a porn star as well a teacher is bad?

I mean, it's not like she was handing out free copies of her latest DVD in class.

Can't a teacher get her sexy on, too?

Ok, maybe I wouldn't want a porn star teaching my children (if I had them).

Poor girl. Perhaps she can get a job in fast food.