A Georgia woman is in jail after police
say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as
punishment for bad grades.

I can understand taking away possessions and taking away privileges ( Read more... )

So ... I was just thinking of those puppets from those "Don't You Put It In Your Mouth!" commercials a few years ago ... and how those puppets and that message should really appear in sex ed classes ... "Talk to someone you love before you put it in your mouth!"

I'm a rotten human being. :-)

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Probably the single most honest opinion/editorial piece I've ever seen in my life ... :-)

http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/kids_your_mother_is_ready_to


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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/08/mutallab_comment/

COMMENT: As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day "underpants bomber" of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 fame, there are just three simple points for us Westerners to take away.

First: It is completely impossible to prevent ( Read more... )

I just got hired on as the back of house manager for the new Boston Pizza that opening in Vegreville. I start on the 20th.


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http://tinyurl.com/kkt8eo

"Prominent French chefs have given warning that the country's wines will lose their complexity and the best produce will come from Scotland if the effects of climate change are not tackled."

Is there a contemporaneous ranking of wines produced during the Medieval Warm ( Read more... )

It's been coming for a long time, now, sure as the turning of the
worlds. Now it's here, and people are starting to suffer. And this is
only the beginning.

One of my roomates works in construction. He came home today and
announced that he had been laid off. Big surprise, that. In a
recession, construction jobs are usually among the first to go.

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It all started just before I moved ( Read more... )

It was inauguration day in the US today, a day that marks the 43rd peaceful exchange of power from one outgoing president to one incoming president. The simple fact that this has happened 43 previous times is noteworthy enough, but there's no denying the historical significance of the incoming president.

I mean in when I say I understand the ( Read more... )

Moving is a pain in the ass and I hate it. Have I mentioned this before? Well, I'm mentioning it now ( Read more... )