Category: Random Rants

March 9, 2008

… I’m *so* getting my kids a Playmobil Security Checkpoint set. If only to reward all the wonderful commenters over at Amazon.com — such a great outlet for choice snark at the expense of ludicrous products and brands. But I do agree with most of the disappointed parents: the set is far from complete. Where…

March 4, 2008

What a cringefest. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Clueless) trots out his take on why marijuana should remain illegal. It’s just pathetic. He’s either a) willfully ignorant, or b) stubbornly pushing a failed policy just for the hell of it. Either way, he’s a disgrace as a supposed liberal, and his logic is is so failed it’s…

February 22, 2008

Oh, good stuff. Apropos of nothing, this is by far the best light switch design ever. Cheezy, disturbing, becoming and practical. The perfect gift for the Catholic priest who has everything. Found it here, and traced back the earliest mention here. Now, enjoy and insert your own “rise and shine” or “let the little children…

February 10, 2008

This is just plain ridiculous. Old poll from last year, but still an eye-opener: in this wonderful secular society where state and religion are supposed to be separate and freedom of (from?) religion is enshrined in the 1st Amendment, it appears that, well, most people haven’t gotten the hint. They still seem to insist that…

February 6, 2008

This via AP/Yahoo: ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Police have arrested a motorist they say had a 24-pack of beer strapped in with a seat belt but had a 16-month-old girl unrestrained in the back seat with the toddler’s mother Tina D. Williams was pulled over in St. Augustine on Sunday for allegedly running a red…

February 4, 2008

Good stuff. From here.

January 18, 2008

This is getting out of hand. There’s something akin to an epidemic of killing little kids across the US. Random whacked out people are throwing children off bridges in Alabama and Hawaii, and dragging them out into traffic in Massachussets. WTF? Stop it, already, okay? You don’t touch kids. Period. They haven’t done anything, and…

January 15, 2008

This was a couple of weeks ago in central Vermont; then it all went away with a freak January thaw, but hopefully it’ll come back again…

January 11, 2008

I know, I know. Culturally insensitive and all that, but damn, I haven’t laughed so hard in so long. Thx to the whacky crowd at frostfirezoo for this gem.

January 11, 2008

On the one hand there’s Britney Spears, for whom the ability to get out of bed in the morning and *not* lose custody over her two children thru her own blundering stupidity is a work-in-progress, and then there are women like Ramirez Perez. Damn. Let’s just say, that if ours was a genuinely fair and…