May 7th, 2008
We see all kinds of dumb news around here but this piece is so exceptionally stupid, well, you be the judge.
News Station Tampa Bay 10 reports that Florida substitute teacher Jim Piculas was fired after being accused of wizardry. You heard me, wizardry. No, this news is not time-warped in from Salem in […]
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May 1st, 2008
There are some angry Italians out there after the finance ministry posted taxpayer earnings from 2005 on its site. Tax authorities claimed that they were trying to increase “transparency” but no one seems to know what kind of transparency they’re talking about. The site almost crashed when people flooded the site to check on their […]
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April 29th, 2008
Image details: Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting In North Carolina served by picapp.com
Yeah, Jeremiah Wright has crossed the line from controversial to completely off his religious rocker. It’s one thing to insinuate the United States goaded the terrorists into attacking us on 9/11.
Sen. Barack Obama had managed to talk his way out of the initial […]
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April 27th, 2008
Not too long ago, the La Mesa (near San Diego) mayor, Art Madrid, was found drunk in public. The police found him lying on the sidewalk, vomit nearby. They wound up taking him home. The police are being criticized because they didn’t perform a sobriety check on the mayor or the city employee found […]
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April 22nd, 2008
Ah, my old home Louisiana. The Associated Press out of Baton Rouge reports that a state senate panel rejected a bill that would have criminalized sagging pants.
The bill proposed by Sen. Derrick Shepherd would have made illegal any clothing that “intentionally exposes undergarments or intentionally exposes any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of […]
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April 21st, 2008
According to the Associated Press, The California Senate has closed a loophole allowing teachers who have had their license revoked for sexual misconduct to still teach.
On Monday the Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring the state to suspend teachers’ credentials if another state has revoked their license for sexual misconduct.
A 2007 AP investigation […]
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April 17th, 2008
City councils should not be able to vote a raise for themselves. Period. Why? Because of stupid crud like this. San Diego’s city council just voted themselves and additional 24% in salary. And this comes just hours after Mayor Sanders proposed a budget filled with service reductions and job cuts. One hundred twenty-seven job cuts.
This […]
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April 14th, 2008
Outraged toddlers have been prevented from marrying in Arkansas! Well, not quite. But a law in Arkansas that inadvertently allowed anyone under the age of 18 to marry with parental consent has been repealed by the state legislature.
Arkansas lawmakers didn’t realize that a law they passed last year completely removed the minimum marrying age, instead […]
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April 10th, 2008
Hoping to curb prostitution that often uses massage parlors as a front, government in Indonesia’s East Java province is requiring masseuses to wear padlocks on their pants.
Indonesian officials are concerned prostitution will ruin the country’s tourism industry. Hey, that’s not the case at all. It’s just a different kind of tourist. Last month Indonesia passed […]
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April 9th, 2008
And here I thought I my home state knew how to party. A measure on the floor of the Louisiana State Senate this week would have named an official state cocktail.
The beverage in mind for the distinction was the New Orleans cocktail known as the Sazerac. A Sazerac is made with whiskey, sugar, […]
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