• Mini-Posts - Politics, Schmolitics

    God Bless Little Vermont Towns

    They know it’s silly, but still they do it, the darlings. Vt. towns OK Bush ‘indictment’ – Life- msnbc.com BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Not-So-Happy-Landing: Greenskeeper Really Hacked Off

    This guy seems to think he’s got the traffic problem figured out - just fly his private plane over it and land on any convenient flat, open area… like a local golf course. We should think about this the next time we go to a show at the Marriott Lincolnshire, it’s always a mess getting in and out of there on show night, and parking is a bitch! I give this guy half a point for ingenuity, half a point for putting the plane down on a course called “Crane’s Landing,” but negative twelve points for lack of smarts. He’s an…

  • The Life of Riley

    Practicing Six Sigma CPM (Cat Poop Management)

    I was checking out various cat litter systems when I ran across this gem in an old thread at Metafilter: Best cat litter system | Ask Metafilter One of the most important factors in cat poop management (cpm) is the type of food that you feed your cat. If you feed your cat dry food, the cat will have hard firm poop (hfp). If you feed your cat wet food, it is more likely to have messy squishy poop (msp). Msp smells a lot more than hfp, and it is much harder to scoop.If you want to practice six sigma…

  • Funnies - Hot Off The Presses

    File this under “Not Too Bright.”

    Man fired for requesting a prostitute – Yahoo! News Hotel workers were sent to Jorgensen’s room to ask him to stop demanding prostitutes. When they arrived at his room, Jorgensen answered the door in the nude, human resources director Tim Donovan said.Jorgensen was fired the next day. At the hearing, Jorgensen said his actions didn’t hurt the casino, and he said he’d received strong performance reviews. He also blamed the restaurant for serving him too much alcohol. “I was absolutely plowed,” he said. Administrative Law Judge Terence Nice turned down Jorgensen’s claim for unemployment benefits. It’s never your fault when…

  • Home Improvement

    Lacy Night

    As rain shifts to snow, mushy morning rush is forecast — chicagotribune.com Afternoon rains turned to snow Monday evening as a storm expected to bring around 6 inches of snow moved into the Chicago area. It started snowing around 2pm today. In spite of grumbling about the cold and the piles of grey, frozen blocks of slush along the margins of the roads, I really love how pretty everything gets after a few hours of snow. Big fat flakes came down as I drove home, and it was starting to “stick” on the parking lot and not melt away. A…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Only in Utah... - Politics, Schmolitics

    The Politics of Fear: Only 13 times? Isn’t it more?

    Keith Olbermann makes it 13 times that the Bush administration used a suspiciously timed terror alert or arrest announcement to either negate unfavorable news, or neutralize positive news about political opponents.  Only thirteen times? But it’s linked at One Utah: One Utah » Blog Archive » The Nexus of Politics and Terror (and Lying)

  • Clan: McTiVo - Hot Off The Presses

    Under Bergerac’s Nose: Abuse and Murder?

    Did you watch the British detective series Bergerac? The building that was used as the police station used to be a children’s home. And now there’s a real mystery: child abuse and possibly murder, dating back decades, in that same building. BBC NEWS | Europe | Jersey | Child’s body found at care home Parts of a child’s body have been found by police in a former children’s home in Jersey.