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[theweaselking]

DVD shoplifter tripped up by his baggy pants.

Also,
Lovelorn camel escapes again in Tennessee, looking for mate of it's own species. Owner spotted in wedding dress screaming "But don' chewall luve mee?"

Also,
Spike Lee joins Bill Cosby in pointing out the inanity of the "gangsta" image.

Also,
Quote of the day:

America is exactly like your friend in college who got all bombed on Jagermeister and Coors Lite at your New Year's party, poured beer on your cat, started feeling up your girlfriend, broke your guitar and ended up shitting in your bathtub and passing out with his dick in his hand, and then woke up the next morning saying "You know what? Sixty-two percent of me disapproves of my actions last night." And you were like "That's nice, but could you please clean the shit out of my bathtub, wash my cat, apologize to my girlfriend, fix my guitar and put your fucking dick away?" And he was like "Naw yo, I'm too hung over, I gotta roll out, peace."

Also,
An open letter to Rick Santorum.

Also,
Norene Redmond, 38th District Court Judge, has a survey on her website asking who should be released from jail to reduce overcrowding. Yes, I'm serious. So is she. "While it is solely my responsibility to decide who, if anyone, will be released early, I welcome and am very interested in your perspective and feedback"

Also,
New York Times reviews "Saving Us From Darwin".

Comments

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

That letter is absolutely awesome! Too bad some flunky is probably the only person who read it.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Release all the non-violent drug offendors. Keep all the violent and theft offendors.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

If you want to put that in, sure. I'm totally not going to support releasing the multi-time "nonviolent drug offenders" who are there after violating their probation to get high on cocaine and go driving while high to get more cocaine.

There are a pile of those.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Attempted vehicular manslaughter ain't non-violent.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Apparently my brother is America

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

... I must hear the full story, sometime.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's HIS fault...

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I love this line, from that last link:

"But people are good at living with contradictions, just so long as their self-importance isn't directly insulted."

One of my professors at the Information School asked me if I really thought that people could believe two or more contradictory things at once. My response: "Duh."

That's the thing about being Pagan: you spend a lot of time experimenting with irrational thought processes. I do it as a way of checking and retraining my intuition, because my life tends to go better when my intuitive responses to things are correct. But it's like paying especial attention to anything: you start to notice it everywhere.

Let me just say that my tree-hugging, crystal-wearing, fluffy-bunny compatriots do not have a monopoly on irrationality.

Reading further...

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, the Discovery Institute's in SEATTLE?

Re: Reading further...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You didn't know that?

Re: Reading further...

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Somehow I missed it. And I was quite happy not knowing, I think...