"Cocoa May Help Reduce Heart Disease, Cancer, Mars Study Shows"--headline, Bloomberg.com, Feb. 9 Really?  So where are the Martian testimonials? "Coyotes Look Distracted in Loss to Dallas"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 10 Coyotes in Dallas?  Of Course they are distracted!  No cacti to water! "U.S. Skeleton Athlete Is Barred From Olympics"--headline, New York Times, Feb. 10 Some Atheletes just go too far in their training.  Maybe if he puts on some ...

"Cocoa May Help Reduce Heart Disease, Cancer, Mars Study Shows"--headline, Bloomberg.com, Feb. 9 Really?  So where are the Martian testimonials? "Coyotes Look Distracted in Loss to Dallas"--headline, Associated Press, Feb. 10 Coyotes in Dallas?  Of Course they are distracted!  No cacti to water! "U.S. Skeleton Athlete Is Barred From Olympics"--headline, New York Times, Feb. 10 Some Atheletes just go too far in their training.  Maybe if he puts on some ...

Gideon has his CPS Series, and I think I am going to start a Zero Tolerance series as the stories are just too stupid to believe.  But unlike fiction, these are facts. The latest is a 12 year old boy in a Chicago suburb that brought Powdered sugar to school for a science project.  He was busted!  For what?  Bringing a "look alike" substance!  Since when is powdered sugar illegal?  Do you know now many cops are going to get busted now for having some powdered suga...

In what has got to be some of the stupidest pap yet published by the Senile Old Lady, Stanley Fish has opined the following: One of those arguments goes this way: It is hypocritical for Muslims to protest cartoons caricaturing Muhammad when cartoons vilifying the symbols of Christianity and Judaism are found everywhere in the media of many Arab countries. After all, what's the difference? The difference is that those who draw and publish such cartoons in Arab countries believe in their cont...

There is a high school teacher in Colorado that is in a lot of hot water.  Why?  Is he espousing some left wing lunacy?  Some would argue that.  But in truth his rhetoric is not left wing or right wing, just anti-American.  Jay Bennish, a GEOGRAPHY teacher at Overland High School has decided that all subjects are political, even when there is no politics in them.  And so instead of teaching his assigned course, he has decided to jump into a diatribe about how EVIL A...

I give blood.  I have O-, so they REALLY like me!  And it costs me nothing usually.  I estimate I have given about 150 pints between here and Dayton since I was 18.  And every 8 weeks, like clockwork, they call me and ask for another pint.  I hate needles with a passion!  I cannot look at it when they stick me, nor at the needle hanging in my arm.  And as I told Bluedev, I hate blood too!  I come from a family of doctors, and I was a failure at it!  C...

Apparently the defeat of Al Gore in the 2000 election has made him come unhinged.  Not only has he violated the maxim that Politics stop at the nations shore, he did it in Bin Laden's home country taking some of the Bin Laden money!  And what did this screwy squirrel rant about this time? Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely...

Deference got Moderateman to thinking of what friendship is, so MM wrote a blog on it.  And the answers so far are very insightful.  But thinking further on it, I wanted to add to my response to MM. Friendship is the ability to tell your friend they are wrong when they are wrong.  While they may think what they are doing is right, a true friend will get in your face and tell you why they think it is wrong to do something.  If that destroys the friendship, then it was never...

In another episode of the Iranians marching lock step off the edge of a cliff, Prof. Hasan Bolkhari, a kook with the Iranian Education ministry no less, has decided that the Cartoon Characters of Tom and Jerry are a Jewish plot!  Cooked up by no less than the evil zionist organization Disney! Other than being a really stupid conspiracy theory, the kook gets his facts wrong.  Tom & Jerry was not created by Disney, but by Hanna Barbera! Just goes to show that you dont have to b...

Disclaimer:  The title is not my opinion, but that of the object of the linked article. As some of you know, I have been on vacation.  A sort of working vacation, but one where I basically treated the computer as a plague.  However since I was 3 hours away from home, I often woke up early (like at 4am), and did catch Good Morning America.  This article is based upon one such morning that I decided had to be responded to. Back in the early 60s, Betty Friedan gave us the ...

In another display of her god(ess)head mentality, Hillary Clinton has taken one statement by Karl Rove and decided he is obsessing about her.  Her Royal Highnass has concluded, based upon a statement Karl Rove made in an interview (and hardly a state secret to anyone following politics), that Karl Rove must have something for her since she is going to be the one the democrats run to defeat George W Bush. Wait!  He is not running!  So why should he care?  Whoever gets the R...

The 12th Annual Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser for my Wife's Nephew is now history and it was another grand success.  But it entails traveling across country, so I left my JoeUser behind.  Which upon my return I find that so did everyone else for most of while I was gone as Stardock just had a smash hit on its hands with its latest game!  (Congratulations Stardock!).  So I guess I did not miss much goings on.  In years past, there was always the inevitable "I am leaving...

Last night I was getting new Cell phones for my wife and I.  NBD, just new phones (as mine was a wreck and we dont want to have 2 sets of adapters). We do Verizon.  And they are good enough and not BSing me (as I had already researched on the web).  But since we were doing a 2 year contract and plus a $50 rebate, my phone was free.  And so was hers due to the BOGO.  But that is not the story. While waiting for them to transfer the numbers to the new phone, a guy (p...

In what many law enforcement agencies are calling at best, highly dubious, and at worst unethical and illegal, it seems that one of the Sheriff Departments here in Virginia are going the extra mile in their efforts to arrest prostitutes!  It seems they are not waiting for the women to propostion them, no they are actually getting the real evidence! It seems deputies in Spottsylvania County (that is right outside Fredericksburg) Va are actually having sex with the prostitutes! (But only t...