What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse.
The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield in Chapter 1
Who works harder?
This image was taken from the 31st floor of a building on Wacker Drive in Chicago. I do not know which building I captured, nor do I know to which company or companies I am looking in on. As such, I do not know if the office on the left has any connection to the office on the right. However, I am pretty sure the person who works in the office on the left is a hell of a lot busier than the person who works in the office on the right…
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A current teaser trailer for the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie features the song American Badass by Kid Rock - at least on TV. However, the spot cuts off the syllable ‘ass’ and this is how the clip ends. SO, a movie about American heroes that I believe the producers hope will make all Americans stand up and shout things like “America is the greatest country on earth!” ends with these words: I am American Bad. I think this qualifies as an Epic Fail [link to my favorite].
Below is a clip of the spot - except they must not have Internet rights for the song because they aren’t using it at all in this video:
Here is a clip of a movie I think of everytime I see the G.I. Joe commercials:
[editor’s note: the tag of wise is only in reference to the Team America World Police song]
Back in my youth when I used to share an apartment, I remember overhearing a fight between my room mate and his girlfriend of the time who often spent the weekend. She was complaining about the grocery bill, and in particular about how much money he spent on toilet paper. She asked him, “Why do you go through so much toilet paper every week?” His loud and angry answer was, “Because I don’t want my hand to smell like shit!”
Well, technology and genius of invention have finally come together to solve his problem (albeit, 15 years too late). This video and blog post are dedicated to him, who I shall only refer to by his initials: M.S.
Skeptic.com has a great article entitled Vaccines & Autism A Deadly Manufactroversy that completely explains away all the BS that Jenny McCarthy has spouting about Autism and vaccines. I used to like Jenny and I thought her tv show was extremely good and very overlooked. I even read one of her baby books (Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth) because my wife liked it so much - and I thought it was decent. It was funny and well written. It was a little lacking in hard details and solid information - but it wasn’t billed as a medical book. It was just her story about her pregnancy.
Anyway, I don’t like her giving medical advice on TV, radio, magazines, etc. Really, look at her and ask yourself if you should listen to clear medical science or her. These people don’t like her as well: Jenny McCarthy Body Count. I don’t know if the numbers they portray are correct or not - but I agree with their point that Jenny is part of the problem.
I feel the same way about Suzanne Somers too. How much unfounded exercise equipment can be created, sold and hawked on TV? Why do people keep buying it? I don’t know, but I blame Suzanne for starting the craze. Actually, I think Jane Fonda probably started the craze, but her product was a legitimate excercise and I don’t remember branching out into all sorts of other silly products.
Newsweek has a nice article demonstrating what a nutbag she is and discounts all her BS medical claims as well - and slams Oprah a little too, which is nice. Once again… I believe the picture of her endorsing the Thighmaster should be all you need not to take medical advice from her.
Lastly, just so I don’t come off as a woman hater - I pretty much hate Tony Little and Kevin Trudeau as well - I just haven’t come across anything recently about either of them.
Robert Furchgott, the nobel-prize winning scientist, died at age 92 on 5/19/2009.
[WARNING: JOKE ALERTS]
A closed casket ceremony was planned for his funeral. Unfortunately, this was not possible for obvious reasons.
OR
Instead of flying the US flag at half-mast in his honor…
The first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks has recently been discovered: Story here.
If he said he likes robots instead of turtles, this could have been the greatest video ever!
All I can say is “wow.” The religious blinders are screwed on incredibly tight on this one:
