too stupid to be fiction
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OK, it’s official. A million bucks down a rathole.
I predicted the City of San Antonio’s Bike Sharing Program would be a bust, and it appears I was right. So there’s $1,000,000 of YOUR tax dollars blown. The only upside I see is that the B-Cycle kiosks are a strong signal of good locations for private bicycle shops like the Blue Star Bike Shop. Read more
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Sometimes, there IS some justice
When I first saw this I was a bit put out, but figured, “what can I say? It’s perfectly legal.” But folks that pull this kind of stunt can’t keep themselves from skating ever closer to the edge, until they screw up. Tip from the Drudge Report. Read more
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Mickey Mouse, indeed
While I am usually adverse to Federal agencies throwing their weight around, in this case I’d pay good money to see a team of Navy SEALs drop by Disney corporate headquarters and kick everyone’s ass. Update (26 May). Disney wised up. Read more
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It’s my football and I’m going home
Lefties in the Tucson area want to secede from the State of Arizona and form their own liberal state. While the historically obvious name for such an entity would be New Arizona or South Arizona, I humbly suggest something more descriptive: Whinylittlebitchistan. Read more
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Just tatoo “Redneck LOSER” on your forehead…
…it would be a lot cheaper than Confederate license plates. But what the heck, we’re catering to every other gang of perverts, layabouts, and degenerates in society, so why not let these hapless mooks self-identify? Update (10 May). The affliction isn’t confined to pseudo-conservative Jacksonians! The Guardian has a series of essays (inadvertently) explaining why Read more
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Soon we may be smuggling light bulbs in from South Carolina
It’s a good measure of how messed up this country has become that something like South Carolina’s Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act is even intelligible, let alone sensible. Tip from the Instapundit, as portrayed by Ed Driscoll. Read more
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Meet the Cape-a-Bility Challenge
59,000 of us got jobs, but all another 6,000 of them got were these stupid capes. I wonder how the capes will look on their resumes… Tip from Drudge, who couldn’t permalink his a$$. Read more
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Happy farookin’ Tax Day
The latest in Drudge fu: Gee, I wonder how much overlap there is between these two groups. Freeloading bastards. Update (19 April). Michael Walsh, writing in the New York Post, gets behind my idea of the Non-Alternative Minimum Tax: One way to get a grip — unemotionally, intellectually — on the problem doesn’t even involve Read more
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Let’s push the “abstract behavior rules”
The latest in NewSpeak is renaming Easter Eggs as “spring spheres”. We were doing some linguistic horsing around yesterday, and decided “spring spheres” lacked any sort of multicultural element. We decided to call them “cojones colorados.” That should provoke some discussion. Tip from the Corner. Read more
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Save the Planet from the Stoners!
Bummer, dude. Marijuana growing accounts for 1% of all US power consumption. It’s like, they’re so stoned they don’t care about Saving the Planet, or something… Read more
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