Clearly, this kid doesn't know what he's talking about:

"Are you kidding? This is silly," says Zack Bartell, 12, who was taking a dirt-bike riding lesson at School for Dirt's track next to Kawasaki Motors' U.S. headquarters here. "There's no way I'm going to stick a motorcycle part in my mouth."
Shut up, Zack.  You're just some stupid kid.  Listen ( Read more... )

I know some of you will have an aneurysm reading this, but we all should be rooting for the Republicans right nowNo, not for McCain; I'm not that stupid.  But as long as Congressional Republicans stand in the way of the largest government takeover of the financial markets in history, we should be cheering them on.  For once in their miserable ( Read more... )

Megan McArdle recalls her life of crime, as an underage drinker in Pennsylvania . . . in 1992.  She was caught by state liquor agents, fined, forced to attend alcohol-education classes, and promised never to drink underage again.  According to the Liquor Control Board, that should have been the end of the matter:

Alas, they never told the ( Read more... )

Somebody started posting story icons from 9news.com to denver, and, well, it's gotten a little out of hand.  No, really.

Epic packaging fail from HP.  Just imagine if they shipped, you know, actual hardware.  Would a single 1U blade be delivered via forklift and armed escort?

Freedom isn't free, nor is it cheap:

Katy teen Stephen Gegenheimer had just bought $50 worth of roman candles and fireworks Monday afternoon and was headed home to set them off in his front yard when he spotted flashing lights in his rearview mirror ( Read more... )

Any country that would allow this to be done to a Maserati probably needs a regime change:


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• I was wrong: Americans are driving less, to the tune of 11 billion miles in March compared to last year.  And mileage dropped another 4.5 billion in April vs. a year ago.
• The current markup in gas prices includes speculation that hurricane season (which began June 1) may disrupt supplies, but it could go even higher if another Big One hits the Gulf.
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I want to believe this is a parody, but it isn't.  It's an "irreverent" Web site produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that supposedly educates kids about the effects of greenhouse gases and how they impact the environment.  What it really does is try to make kids feel miserable for not being born into abject poverty, which is the ( Read more... )

It would be disingenuous of me to say I hate lawyers; I'm married to one after all. But shit like this, involving a class-action suit against Creative Labs over the advertised capacity of their MP3 players, convinces me that some lawyers deserve to be shot in the face:

According to the settlement agreement, the lead plaintiffs, who filed their ( Read more... )