too stupid to be fiction
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Let’s take a day off on our day off
I see the IWW is calling for a general strike on May Day Which is very convenient for students at my university, where May 1st and 2nd are Student Study Days, with no classes, labs, or regularly scheduled office hours. What a bunch of tossers. Read more
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Do You Spell FAIL with Green Letters?
More and more of all this hippy-dippy green energy bullshit we’re saddled with is turning out to be a collection of Really Bad Ideas: corn likker for yer car is destroying more land and polluting more water than all the frackers in Christendom, and starving folks in Latin America solar power arrays and wind turbines Read more
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The inherent contradiction in the system
Here’s the US government webpage telling me that another US government webpage (nasa.gov) is unavailable. It’s like the national parks, in cyberspace. A$$holes. Read more
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Ladies, don’t eat those chicken wings!
You’ll give your unborn son a permanent case of Chicken Dick. This morning, PETA sent a letter to Drew Cerza, founder of the National Buffalo Wing Festival, with an ominous warning: The latest scientific evidence [the Study for Future Families] shows that the sons of pregnant women who consume chicken are more likely to have Read more
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Gasahol is Genocide
American and European biofuel mandates and subsidies are starving the Guatemalan working class. GUATEMALA CITY — In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight tortillas; today it buys only four. And eggs have tripled Read more
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When the roof leaks…
…install a drain in the floor (I actually saw this in a gym locker room). Read more
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OK, no more shoeless interludes with the TSA for me…
…not if I can get through airport security with a JetSki! Seriously, a guy swims three miles in the dark to get help, and the Authorities arrest him? This needs to go in the dictionary as the third or fourth definition of the word “dick.” Read more
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The Man Who Defected to North Korea
Anyone who believes in something for nothing is already half on the road to being swindled. Fortunately, millions who have defected to the People’s Democratic Republic of California are finding it easier to escape. Update (22 July). And then there’s this poor mook who’s looking for an Islamic paradise. Tip from Via Meadia. Read more
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The Man with an Orange for a Head
“…no narrative structure is big enough to contain the infinite perversity of the human heart.” Read more
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Oh, goody! Earth, wind, AND fire
I’m not sure this is the best way to Save the Planet. Tip from American Digest. Read more
The Random Texan 