December 2008
26 posts
Check your attic for uninvited guests!
From the Associated Press:
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A family didn’t realize it had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said.
Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog to search the home in Plains Township, a suburb of Wilkes-Barre about 100 miles north of Philadelphia. He was charged with several...
Well, that's a swift kick to the baby-maker.
From the Associated Press (I wonder what the consensus is on purity balls, which this report apparently failed to study.):
“Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released...
What does God have to do with it?
Someone explain to me why when someone commits a crime, some relative or neighbor or other “close friend” always says something to the effect of “I never would have expected it. So-and-so regularly attended church.”
How does that even make sense? So because I don’t attend church, I am more likely to be a criminal? Just because you practice organized religion, you are...
From a fellow godless heathen...
From Slate.com: Click the excerpt for the link to the story. It’s well worth a read.
No Reason for the Season
The joy of celebrating a godless Christmas.
By Torie Bosch
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, at 11:53 AM ET
Bemoaning the bastardization of the Christmas season is becoming a holiday tradition. In newspaper letters to the editor and in the blogosphere, purists offer chiding reminders...
I'm not all 'Bah, Humbug'
This is copied straight from Jezebel.com and I think it’s adorable. I e-mailed it to my best friends last week.
“Thank you for being a friend… for 90 years.”
“Is the end of 2008 bumming you out? Is the economy breaking your heart? Are the holiday blues are setting in? Well, my doves, perhaps you need to read a sweet story like this one.
Vera...
My Christmas rant.
As most people know, my family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas. Sure, most of my family gets together on either Christmas Eve or day just because everyone (except me) has the day off and it’s an excuse to see family, etc. So I don’t hate Christmas or anything, but here’s something that really bothers me: this insane obligatory gift-gifting culture that surrounds...
Guys can't handle the caffeine.
At the height of my coffee addiction, I was downing four to five large cups a day ($1 refills into my travel mug from Espresso Royale in East Lansing, located conveniently one block from the State News office!) I think I seriously became immune to the caffeine buzz at some point, but now I only have one cup a day while driving to work and if I have more than two, I can definitely feel it.
From...
"Be Cool!"
Police say a man came into the bank on 12 Mile near Dequindre around 10:20 a.m., approached a teller and said he wished to cash a check. When the teller requested the check, the man opened his jacket to show the teller a handgun in his waistband.
The man produced a plastic bag and demanded the teller fill it with money, Dwyer said. He left the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.
Police say...
Burt's Bees
I am usually never without Burt’s Bees chapstick. I love the stuff. I keep one in my car, in my purse, my laptop bag, my coat pocket.
So imagine my dismay when Meijer was all out of the regular Burt’s Bees yesterday. There was no way I was getting the horrid honey version. That shit smells and tastes weird, and doesn’t have the awesome tingle. I bought it by accident once and...
Bristol Palin is marrying into a stellar family.
Mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend arrested in drug case
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers have arrested the mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend on drug charges. Sherry L. Johnston was arrested Thursday after troopers served a search warrant on a Wasilla home. The 42-year-old Johnston has been charged with six felony drug counts. Troopers did not identify the drug involved,...
This kind of shit makes me so angry.
If there’s one thing I absolutely can’t tolerate, it’s animal abuse. I had to force myself to stop watching Animal Cops on Animal Planet because it always resulted in me crying uncontrollably. And I know I post a lot of cat stories on here, but kittens are one of my weaknesses and this story is just horrendous. The guy who saw the posting and decided to report it is awesome.
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So, who wants to smell like beef?
NEW YORK — Looking to beef up your mojo this holiday season?
Burger King Corp. may have just the thing. The home of the Whopper has launched a new men’s body spray called “Flame.” The company describes the spray as “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat.”
The fragrance is on sale at New York City retailer Ricky’s NYC in stores and online for a limited time for $3.99.
Burger...
What is wrong with people?
NAMING YOUR KID ADOLF HITLER? SERIOUSLY? AND ANOTHER KID IS NAMED ARYAN NATION? WHAT THE FUCK?
Cake Request for 3-Year-Old Hitler Namesake Denied
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 16, 2008
Filed at 9:41 p.m. ET
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is...
Well, it's official.
Detroit papers drop home delivery to 3 days a week
By ED WHITE – 1 hour ago
DETROIT (AP) — Beset by falling revenue, Detroit’s newspapers announced Tuesday that they plan to offer only three days of home delivery and will push their online editions instead, making the city the largest in the nation to have its daily papers undergo such a makeover.
The Detroit Media Partnership, which...
"Why is there tape on your nose?"
The new Criterion Collection “Bottle Rocket” was released a few weeks ago. The Blu-Ray version comes out tomorrow (Tuesday).
I love, love, love “Bottle Rocket.” While it’s not my favorite Wes Anderson movie - “The Royal Tenenbaums” - it’s up there. I’d place it above both “The Life Aquatic” and “Darjeeling Limited” and...
Vampire Weekend makes me fall in love with them...
So Pitchfork asked a bunch of their favorite musicians to list their favorite music of 2008, the guys in Vampire Weekend came up with this:
Vampire Weekend “Ten Things We Liked This Year” Contributor’s initials after each one: CT = Christopher Tomson EK = Ezra Koenig CB = Chris Baio RB = Rostam Batmanglij In no particular order: Hot churros with the chocolate dipping sauce at...
Yes, Virginia, there is a fashion police.
… and it’s in Shanghai.
From The Telegraph (I love British newspapers):
“The neighbourhood committee – a volunteer outpost of the Communist Party – in the city’s north-eastern district of Rixin has decided that wearing pyjamas in the street should be discouraged. “
Apparently they have problems with people becoming too uninhibited and running amok in their pajamas....
You can always count on Allison for a little...
Allison: kyle says i’m like a panda because all i do is eat and sleep all day. with everything that’s going on, being a panda might not be a bad gig. i’d like to be a panda in a zoo, so i could eat and sleep all day and not have to worry about poachers or starvation. or whether i’ll still have a journalism job next week.
Old man laments 'hooking up' phenomenon.
The NYT can’t think of anything better to write about so a columnist tackles the hook-up culture. He comes off sounding like an extremely old person. However, he is right about one thing. “Hooking up” is totally here to stay. “Dating” has become archaic.
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It turns out that everything is the opposite of what I remember. Under the old model, you dated a few...
The best thing I read in the NYT today.
““Wendy and Lucy” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has some swearing, a little drug use and a brief implication of violence, but no nudity, sex or murder. The rating seems to reflect, above all, an impulse to protect children from learning that people are lonely and that life can be hard.”
The way into a girl's pants is through books?
“Men ‘lie about books they have read to impress on dates’
Men are twice as likely as women to lie about what books they have read to try impress on a first date, new research has revealed.”
“More than quarter - 26 percent - said they would try and entice someone into bed by leaving a copy of the book they had been discussing earlier in the evening by the bed....
The world is full of crazies.
“Not Tonight, Honey”
Louisiana man gets fat lip for refusing to have sex with girlfriend
DECEMBER 10—Meet Brittany Phillips. Early Saturday morning, the 19-year-old Louisiana woman wanted some sex from her boyfriend. But Todd Stewart, 35, was apparently not in the mood. In fact, he tried to push Phillips off of him in the bedroom of the pair’s West Monroe home. That much...
Poor Edgar's face came off.
Vets fix feline’s face after ‘cat’-astrophe
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS – 1 day ago
BOSTON (AP) — Me-ouch! Veterinarians on Tuesday performed an unusual surgery to reattach the face of a cat they believe was injured by a car’s fan belt, probably because she tried to stay warm under the hood.
Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired feline, went missing from her home in Winthrop for...
No drama allowed in my book club.
“Ms. Bowie cannot pinpoint the precise moment when disillusion replaced delight. Maybe it was the evening she tried to persuade everyone to look beyond Oprah Winfrey’s picks, “and they all said ‘What’s wrong with Oprah?’ ” she said.
Or perhaps it was the meeting when she lobbied for literary classics like “Emma” and the rest of the group was abuzz about “The Secret Life of Bees,” a...