Today’s big story? Police in Wilkes-Barre, Pennslyvania arrested some stupid woman who was selling “Gothic Kittens” that she pierced and shit to make them look all goth. Lame. Seriously, you don’t have to put ear and back piercings on a kitty. I don’t mean to get all ASPCA here, but this is really stupid. This is almost as ignorant as the whole “cats in jars thing.” Oh, I’m sorry, I mean Bonsai Kittens.
Here’s a picture to prove the stupidity.
Yikes. Looks like a former UFC fighter, Justin Levens, and his wife were both found shot dead in what looks like a murder suicide. Scary shit. I’ve always had an opinion, and I’ve been chided for it, that it takes a certain kind of someone to be a professional fighter. That certain kind of someone is obviously aggressive and competitive to a degree where they can beat the shit out of another person for sport. Am I saying that Justin Levens killed his wife and himself because he was a UFC fighter? Absolutely not. He probably had some serious mental health issues.
I have to say that this kind of story, and to a degree the saga of Mike Tyson, does feed the perception that these people are animals. I like watching MMA, boxing and competitive combat, but it does seem a little needlessly violent and designed to pander to our most animal instincts. Am I totally wrong? There has got to be some sort of psychological thing here where this sort of acceptable violence (like MMA) can trigger deeply seeded issues in some people.
Before we continue the discussion, let’s take a moment to keep Justin Levens’ family in our thoughts. It is a terrible tragedy and I wish it could have been different for him and his family.
So the fat cat CEOs of Ford, GM and Chrysler are back on Capital Hill begging for our money to help them fix their fuck ups. This time, a couple of them drove hybrids to make up for their gaffe of flying their private jets to the last meeting. However, now they are asking for more money! What’s even better is that the UAW is now willing to make “concessions” for this to happen. By “concessions” I hope they mean realistic health care and occasionally working through their breaks to get something done. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a die hard liberal, but when it comes to labor unions I’m redder than Ann Coulter’s tampons.
This calls for a top five list.
1. Same reason I didn’t like bailing out the banks. I don’t like paying for other people’s fuck ups.
2. As Ashton Kutcher said, the people who should have to pay to fix the car companies are the oil companies. They’re the ones who profited so gleefully the last couple years off the gas guzzling SUVs that nobody buys anymore. Make them return the favor.
3. If we bailout the financial sector for fucking up, then bailout the auto industry for poor management, what’s next? How about we pay to plug the holes in Lockheed Martin or Boeing? How about we fix Circuit City? Where does it stop?
4. Free market capitalism should be given an opportunity to fix itself. Let poorly run companies fail, let people lose their jobs, and let the companies come back with a sharper focus and a new direction.
5. We spend more money on military spending than any other country in the world, billions of dollars in bailout for poorly run busnesses, and give rich people tax cuts, but we can’t fix roads and build schools. This bailout, and the one before it and the ones after it, is just an other example of the infruriating way the United States government spends money.
So I’ve been using StumbleUpon for about a month or so now. I love it. It is SO easy to bookmark a page. All you have to do is click the thumbs up. However, I’m a big del.icio.us user and it makes it a little difficult on deciding which service to use for which page. My first idea was to use Stumble for individual pages and Delicious for entire sites. However, that makes it difficult because sometimes I want to mark an individual page AND the parent site.
There are two particular issues about Stumble that are getting my goat. Stumble supposedly has a feature where you can import your del.icio.us bookmarks, but I can’t get it to work. This really pisses me off because being able to do a once a month dump into Stumble would really build an accurate picture of what I like on the Internet. My other gripe is that I’ve been using Delicious for several years now and have hundreds and hundreds of bookmarks stored up! What’s a Justin Schmidt to do?
The random stumbling though is easily the coolest feature. Not that I get bored on the Internet much, but when I do it is a great way to find new shit to see.
I just got a lovely dog. She’s a Spaniel, Terrier, Saint Bernard, Collie, Fluffy thing. We got her from a local no kill shelter in Saint Louis. I’ve always thought that no kill shelters were the greatest thing ever. Well, it turns out that PETA doesn’t think so. In fact, PETA discouages no kills. Rather than donate to one of these shelters, go the Bob Barker route.
Spay and neuter your pets! I agree with PETA that there should be a law that says any dog taken in to any shelter must go through a sterilization process before anything else happens. I also agree that puppy mills should be shut down. The problem is that people get enamored with a breed of a dog but don’t want to pay the premium price of a legit breeder. There is, of course, nothing wrong with getting a full bred dog so long as the animal doesn’t come from some bullshit shady source. It’s like anything else, do your research before you make your purchase. If you find out about a puppy mill, report the sick bastards.
Don’t buy animals from any shop in a mall either.
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