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Dear World-at-Large,
An expensive education does not make you intelligent. Money can't buy everything.
No love,
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I don't really remember why I looked up "margarine" on Wikipedia.
This happens to me often. I look up something on Wikipedia, get distracted, then find the open tab later and wonder why I looked it up in the first place. Today's mystery subject happened to be "margarine". I found this interesting, anyway.
In the United States, the color bans, drafted by the butter lobby, began in the dairy states of New York and ( Read more... ) -
Yay!
Thank fucking god!
ETA: Dennis! too!
Anyone else fervently wishing that the crowd outside the White House storms it? -
Gah. Gah. Gah.
I hate election night. It makes me all squirmy and anxious and nuttier than usual. I get so wound up that I walk around my living room in circles and flap my arms in panic.
I need a tranquilizer. -
At least it was just one juror.
The Petcka case resulted in a hung jury, but will be retried.
"Eleven jurors thought he was guilty, but one male juror believed Petcka’s contention that it was a terrible accident that did not rise to the level of a felony." I'm really curious if that juror is a baseball fan. But at least only one juror bought the bullshit, and not twelve ( Read more... ) -
I hate people.
The jury in the Petcka case is deadlocked. Motherfucker's going to walk, not even a slap on the wrist.
It'll be really fun to see what happens when his next victim is his next girlfriend, or his next girlfriend's child ("you love that kid more than me"). Yeah, everyone'll just be fucking shocked, shocked. -
Feet of clay, kiddies. Feet of fucking clay.
It amuses me that folks are still obsessed with Nirvana, especially youngsters. I always enjoy telling them that I had the extreme displeasure of working a Nirvana show in '91, before the huge marketing push, when only a few college radio geeks gave a shit and more people were there to see whatever local "college rock" band was opening, and Cobain ( Read more... ) -
Why yes, that sound is my blood boiling, why do you ask?
Worthless, minor-league-baseball-playing jackass Joseph Petcka killed his girlfriend's cat because he was, apparently, jealous of it ("you love that cat more than me"). He claims "self-defense", because the seven-pound cat bit the poor widdle baseball player.
Courtesy of the NY Daily News (italics mine):
A cuddly cat who was brutally bashed by an ( Read more... )