February 20 2008
Burn a CD, Save a Life
I’ve been seeing this headline on the AP wire the last couple days: “DVD in Firefighter’s Coat Blocks Bullet”.
Colleton County Fire and Rescue Director Barry McRoy says he was leaving a Waffle House restaurant in Walterboro [South Carolina] on Saturday morning when two men ran in fighting over a gun. Police say a bullet hit one of the struggling men, shattered a window and then hit McRoy.
The bullet hit a DVD McRoy was carrying in his pocket. He suffered a bruise but didn’t realize he had been shot. As he told a police officer what happened he noticed a bullet hole in his jacket, the shattered DVD case and a piece of the bullet.
One detail I was quick to notice was in the final sentence of the article. The DVD “was a gift from an employee who had recorded a TV show about fire extinguishers.” See that, MPAA? If that DVD had not been illegally copied, a man could be dead!
Posted by Mickey at 11:33 PM in News, TV | Comments (1) | Email this entry
February 12 2008
The Stomach Will Not Be Fooled!
An interesting article at TIME.com:
[N]ew research suggests that the body is not so easily fooled, and that sugar substitutes are no key to weight loss — perhaps helping to explain why, despite a plethora of low-calorie food and drink, Americans are heavier than ever.
I’ve seen similar stories linking artificial sweeteners to weight gain; but what struck me about this article is that it involves testing animals. It would be easy to explain why people who use artificial sweeteners can still gain weight—they could simply be rationalize they can eat more (I know I’ve done it)—but if tests on animals produce the same results, it suggests the problem is physical more than mental. And this intrigues me a great deal.
Posted by Mickey at 01:43 PM in Food, News | Comments (0) | Email this entry
February 3 2008
Headline of the Week
I include a screen grab here, just in case the article gets changed.
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Really! You don’t say! |
And I’d always been told a cop couldn’t find that with two hands and a flashlight.
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Arrested Development Development?!
Holy crap! It’s even being confirmed! It looks like there’s a possibility of a Bluth family reunion.
First Serenity and now this. It’s as if the movie studios are joining together to clean up the messes made by Fox’s stupid decisions.
Posted by Mickey at 04:36 AM in Movies, TV | Comments (0) | Email this entry
Lord of the Wrongs
Yay! Lord of the Rings bloopers! I hope there’s more where these came from.
Posted by Mickey at 04:27 AM in Movies, LOTR | Comments (0) | Email this entry
But He’s Called Big Brother
Some fat-haters in Mississippi want to see you starve. Raw Story has the unbelievable report that “[a] bill recently introduced in Mississippi’s state legislature would bar restaurants from serving people determined to be obese.”
The state’s health department can even revoke permits of establishments that do not comply. No word on how the determination of “obesity” would be made. No word on if food establishments have to provide their own scales or have to perform BMI tests on potential customers. No word on how any McDonald’s will stay open. And no word on how punishing people who actually go out to restaurants is going to fix anything.
You might even file this as another sign of the great American police state we’re turning into, except no one has been wantonly tasered or forcibly strip searched ... yet.
Posted by Mickey at 02:17 AM in Food, News | Comments (0) | Email this entry
January 24 2008
IMPEACH NOW!
Rep Dennis Kucinich moved yesterday to bolster his move to impeach Vice President Cheney by announcing plans to impeach President Bush.
The President and Vice President lied and 4,000 of our soldiers died. The President and Vice President lied and a million innocent Iraqis died in a war that will cost us two trillion dollars; while people here in the States are losing their jobs, their health care, their homes, their dignity. Lies are weapons of mass destruction. Lies are also an impeachable offense. Monday, January 28th is the State of the Union. We already know the State of the Union, it’s a lie.
Not surprisingly, self-deluded Republicans and cowardly Democrats moved to strike those words from the record. They shall not be stricken here. Impeach now!
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January 16 2008
IMPEACH NOW!
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) explains to the dumbasses in the House what the rest of the country has known for years.
Posted by Mickey at 11:59 PM in News, TV, Video | Comments (0) | Email this entry
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