Neil Armstrong passed away today.  He was one of my inspirations.

Godspeed.


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Wow.

Ron "Horshack" Palillo passed away today at the age of 63.

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I've never heard of the Daniel Tosh, and after seeing and reading about this, I'm glad hadn't:

Nothing Funny about Rape Jokes

Just what is it that some people find rape funny?  Free speech or no, what would these guys think of having someone suggest their nuts get cut off and fed to them raw?  What, that's not funny?  O RLY?

Landlord Defends 'White Only' Sign At Swimming Pool - Cincinnati News Story - WLWT Cincinnati

Yes, I had to do a double take too.

I guess the racists are getting bolder by the minute...

More fallout from the Penn State affair:

With no explanation for inaction, Joe Paterno must go now

Joe Paterno, Penn State didn't do what was right in Sandusky case

Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky fooled a lot of people over the years -- including meThe more I read about it, the angrier I get. This is like watching the Catholic Church's ( Read more... )

The Westboro Baptist Church, that's who.

Other than the head-scratcher as to why they're coming to conservative West Side Cincinnati, we'll have a busy afternoon at the high school. And yes, that's the high school my kids will eventually go to.

...comes the tale that North Korea's Kim Jong-il ordered Chinese hackers to steal virtual gold on the MMOs 'Lineage' and 'Dungeon and Fighter' so he could enrich himself by selling that virtual gold to unuspecting users.

Kim Jong-il Grabs $6m from Gold Farming

Credit goes to John Hoskin from TenTonHammer.com, an MMO website.

I know it's been out for almost a week, but I wanted to pass along this article from Roger Ebert's blog on the unfolding newspaper and corruption scandal over in Britain: Roger Ebert's Blog: The Dirty Digger

I, for one, can't believe for a moment that the corruption that permeated the News Inc. media over there was limited to Britain.  The next ( Read more... )

Well, Joseph-Beth Booksellers was on the auction block because a creditor didn't approve of the owner's plan to exit bankruptcy, and that creditor managed to successfully outbid the owner for the stores:

www.wlwt.com/money/27624851/detail.html

Sounds to me like either the creditor wanted to take over the chain all along or maybe had a personal thing ( Read more... )

Just in case you thought Karma didn't exist, I give you this news article:

Driver Makes Obscene Gesture, Crashes into House