Under a Gibbous Moon

Megan Barnes was in a car accident. She rear ended a pickup truck. She did this apparently because she was shaving her “bikini area”. This story has all kinds of wrong.

• She was shaving because she was on her way to see her boyfriend
• Her ex-husband was in the car with her
• He was steering
• She was driving (sort of) on a suspended license

At least she wasn’t talking on her cell phone too.

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This, this is so unbelievably stupid that it warrants the creation of its very own tag.

I’m sure we all remember back in ‘94 when a woman put hot coffee between her legs, spilled it, and burned her hoo ha. For her gross negligence she was (initially) awarded several million dollars.

That, to my vague and hazy recollections, is the day the lawsuit jackpot started. Soon everybody who did something stupid was suing the manufacturer, the seller, and their neighbor in an attempt to make a buck.

Inane warning signs proliferated like weeds. But no, that wasn’t enough, not for William Ogletree.

On December 30, 2009, the dawn of a new era began. Not simply content with finding ways to hurt himself doing idiotic things with mundane items, he is threatening a lawsuit because he forgot his coat and no one bother to have “…collected the coat, kept it in a secure place and held it for a reasonable period of time for the owner to locate it”.

That’s right, folks, he forgot his coat and its someone else’s fault that he didn’t get it back. Apparently the City of Houston, The Westfield Concession Management, Inc, and Continental Airlines are supposed to be his mommy.

Hat Tip: The Smoking Gun

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The senate filibuster is wrong, it has alway been wrong and so it shall remain. I don’t care who uses it or why. The reason for this is simple,  we live (ostensibly) in a democratic society. Typically in a democratic society the will of the minority is not allowed to overrule the will of the majority.

That is, though, exactly what filibuster is. One (or sometimes a small group) senator is able to indefinitely delay the passage of a bill. The House of Representatives does not allow this, why does the Senate? Selfishness.

All senators hate the filibuster because it can get in the way of what they want but at the same time, they all love it because it allows them to get what they want. The best part of it is, that not wanting to be inconvenienced, senators are not even required to stand and talk to filibuster. The filibustering senator merely says he is and then everyone can go home.

While the Constitution gives the Senate the power to form its own rules, this is downright stupid. Unfortunately, the only way around their selfishness would involve getting them to either change it directly or through a Constitutional amendment. I don’t see either of those things ever happening.

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Remember this bit of snake oil? Well it seems the the Iraqi government has finally gotten wise to to it. Apparently a plastic box with antenna but no actually testing materials is, in fact, a hoax.

Of course it is probably never a good idea to sell thousands of fake bomb detectors to a government, but at least if you do you should abscond with your money after the deal is done. It seems though, that he was not that smart and Jim McCormick, the companies managing director, has been taken into custody. At least he’s lucky his in England (where the company is headquartered) and not in Iraqi.

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In Turkey, an archeological team found an ancient temple. How old? It is estimated to be seven thousand years older than Stonehenge. That puts it somewhere around 9500 B.C.

That’s pretty much before the start of human civilization. Let’s see an inexplicably old temple in the middle of nowhere. It sounds kinda familiar.

I wonder if the Predators are here yet?

Now all we need is a ill billionaire to lead an expedition inside. I wonder is Steve Jobs is available.

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