Resolved for 2006: to not let Barbara Boxer bragging about her “highest vote total in U.S. Senate history” raise my blood pressure (see here, here, and her official bio here).
It’s almost impossible not to be in the top two when you’re in the nation’s most populous state (and facing inept candidates makes it a slam […]
A decade ago, famine killed an estimated one million people in North Korea. People kept dying until the communist regime accepted foreign aid to stop the chronic food shortages caused by their restrictive government policies. In many ways, these years were the good old days for North Korea before satellite dishes, Internet, DVDs, and in […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This is not timely but while cleaning up some of the video downloads I had made over the year I kept cracking up at this one and decided to make a post of it for posterity’s sake if nothing else.
You are one of the more recognizable celebrities in the world. You are hungry and drunk […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)No we do not have insight as to what is going on in Michael Jackson’s mind however it is certainly possible that he threw a tizzy when he heard about how cheaply Gary Glitter was able to deal with his child molestation cases in Vietnam. Remember that Michael had to pay upwards of $20m to […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Just a few days ago we wrote this about the University of California’s mishandling of an ethics case:
…former UC Provost M.R.C. Greenwood got a 15-month sabbatical collecting $300,000 per year plus a $100,000 research grant when she moves into her tenured professorship at UC Davis (which will pay another $163,800). As the Los Angeles Times […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Pagan Scouting Group Takes Root”
- headline, City/Region Section, Eugene (OR) Register Guard, 12/28
Last Saturday’s project: making neck cords out of green, tan, and brown strands:
“The three colors represent diversity, and we’re going to braid them into unity,” said one co-leader.
Later: a game of capture-the-flag, but where everyone cooperates instead of competes, and there are no […]
For reasons that we don’t completely understand, people are fascinated with cosmetic surgery gone bad. The poster child of this must be Steve “Butt Implants” Erhardt, who holds a special place in our hearts since as of this writing just the few posts that we have done about him have generated well over 20,000 unique […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)What do you get when you violate University of California conflict of interest laws by giving your partner a well-paid university job and failing to reveal your business interests in a required statement?
Most people would get fired. However former UC Provost M.R.C. Greenwood got a 15-month sabbatical collecting $300,000 per year plus a $100,000 research […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A 17-year old student wants to stand out and be noticed. He does this by sitting while others stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. Other students tease him–no doubt for being a grandstanding idiot–and he is lectured by his teacher for being ungrateful and unpatriotic. He is now suing the school district for damages in […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The daily Register-Guard of Eugene, OR, where your correspondent has spent the holiday in weather that redefines gloomy, has its finger on the pulse of what’s important: more pot!
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Michelle Malkin lists her top 10 most unhinged of 2005 and has all of the loons one would expect with pithy comments for each.
Independent Sources would like to nominate a few more:
Scott Peterson: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Damn that feels good. (Time to start writing children’s books!).
Michael Jackson: It’s always hard to describe Jakko, but “unhinged” […]
On a day that was freezing across the United States, Insider was able to enjoy mountain biking in the local Santa Monica mountains.
One popular trail leads to this old Nike missle site that guarded the Los Angeles area from Soviet bombers during the cold war. They were made obsolete with the introduction of the ICBM […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“PETA of the Month”
What is it with PETA? They just love public nudity (not that we are complaining)…
There is even a web site dedicated to the Women of PETA (note: site contains a lot of female PETA nudity)
Related: Porn as Eco-Activism
technorati: peta
Now Peaktalk tells us that besides being fattening the little silver balls used to decorate Christmas cookies are poisonous.
You know those little silver balls you use to decorate cakes and cookies? Well, they have a name - dragées. And apparently they are bad, bad, bad for you. They contain silver! Which is almost as bad […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)For the past several years, the bizarre sex abuse case of a judge has been played out in the courts, newspapers and local talk radio. For once common sense prevailed and despite all of his inside knowledge how to game the system, ex-judge Ronald C. Kline has run out of options and has agreed to […]
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