The husband of convicted child killer Andrea Yates is suing to block release of crime scene videos to two TV station that requested it. Under Texas law the district attorney’s office must release them.
“The only legitimate public interest in the contents of the videotape was served when it was played for the jury at the [...]
I just heard on Fox News Channel that a federal appeals court in San Francisco has declared that the good old “Pledge of Allegiance” is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and cannot be recited in a SCHOOL! What the fuck is going on over there in the Land of the Fruits, Nuts and Flakes?
UPDATE: Court seeks to overturn a [...]
Signal to Noise Rating: 25%
(Ok, I lied… I never made it to see Star Wars AOTC. Time and “soicumstance” conspired against me, so I went to work instead.)
Last night I just hung around the house with the wife and watched Atomic Twister. Tell you what, TV’s label as a “vast and empty wasteland” is still [...]
The guy who found the Titanic has now found JFK’s PT109. So what…
Bruce Bartlett talks about how the once depleted oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico are being “refilled” from below. Also he sheds some light on something I heard a long time ago and could not remember the source:
The existence of oil much [...]
A great porn site for the really, really hard up: Amish Heat!
“WE HAVE CHICKS WITH STICKS AND HOT BUTTER CHURNING ACTION! All models and cows are 18 years of age or older”
UPDATE: They have moved! — > AMISH HEAT!
Seems I’m getting a few traffic hits from Google for the term “D*niel P*arl V*deo.” If anyone [...]
Clinton misses his former digs in DC so much that he plans to recreate his sanctum in his “library” in Arkansas
The room, made famous by what Mr Clinton may or may not have done there and in the corridor outside with Monica Lewinsky, will have “furnishings exactly as they were during President Clinton’s years in [...]
Yes, the Bogusphere is charging George Lucas with reinforcing a stereotype because the character of Jango Fett looks like a Latino: “… toys with American paranoia about Mexican immigration with its cloned army of swarthy lookalikes who march in lockstep by the tens of thousands, and ultimately end up serving as Darth Vader’s white-suited warriors.” [...]
Last night I broke down and bought something I’ve been wanting since I was a kid: a Magic Eight Ball. I don’t know how I’ve gone forty years without having one. You know what these are, don’t you? A black plastic ball about 4 or 5 inches in diameter with a black 8 in a [...]
I’m moving some of my old OpenDiary entries to this site and I came across an entry I posted on 9/11/2000 and thought I would repost it (please pardon the language):
I’ve been reading this book by Heinlein called “Friday.” Its a novel set in the not-so-far future where America is balkanized into separate, warring nations [...]
I read the story about the vegetarians starving their baby and being charged with neglect for it. It got me to thinking (and that’s a dangerous thing) about what kind of thoughts goes through the heads of people like that. Maybe they thought they where saving the poor things soul by not having any animal [...]
Rural America declares war on ’green fascists’: “Their enemy is the raft of bureaucratic initiatives that have stopped them logging the forests that used to provide them with an income, the rules that ban them from riding their snow mobiles in case it disturbs sleeping bears, the regulations that in many districts prevent them digging [...]
Burglars ’may have told police about neglected dog’: “Magistrates were told it took three people almost two hours to clip the dog’s matted fur and, once sheared, he was more than eight kilograms lighter.”
I’d love to slap that fat bitch silly. I hate people who mistreat dogs…
Police arrest Robert Blake in wife’s killing: “Although Blake [...]
Since when did “freedom of religion” turn into “freedom from religion?” I’m not in any way a religious type. I don’t go to church every Sunday to compare clothes. I don’t slam, condemn or burn other people because GAWD told me to. I don’t identify with any religion, cult, sect, faction or party other [...]
Rescuers hope to save dog on drifting (burning) tanker: I hope they can rescue the dog, but with Hawaii’s strict 120 day quarantine law, the dogs future is still uncertain cuz the owner can’t stick around. Poor thing…
I also signed the petition to take away Yasser’s Nobel Peace prize at RevokeThePrize.org. Yasser got a “peace” [...]
Fuel Leak Delays Launch Of Us Space Shuttle: It’s been pushed off till Sunday now, bummer… BTW: So much for launch date secrecy, huh!
Airplane hits deer crossing runway after an electric fence covered with peanut butter fails to do it’s job… I couldn’t have made this up if I tried…
In the piece: ’Mood is good,’ [...]
