Plastic Bubbles For Everyone!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas, Zero-Zero-Tolerance
Ye gods this is nauseating. Belgian Gardens State School in Townsville, Queensland, recently banned all unsupervised gymnastic activities outdoors in what it called an effort to protect students from injury. ARGH. Kids get hurt, dammit, it’s part of being a kid. Wrapping them in cotton wool might save them but it also creates a nation [...]
Tags: use your head
Putin Along
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Chicken Little, Over The Seas, The Bad Old Days
*blink* Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States. If your first instinct is not to laugh your arse off at that notion, then I suggest [...]
Tags: still the bad guys, Tsar Vladimir I, use your head
Bite It, Barry
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Decision Eh
Via Weasel (where’s Damien, dammit??): We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. Pardon…is that the Obamessiah coming straight out and telling us he’s a frickin’ [...]
Tags: 2008 election, say that again?, use your head
It’s the Only Way to Be Sure
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Decision Eh
It always vaguely surprises me when a celebrity appears to be paying attention: ”I don’t have a candidate I’m supporting and I’m certainly interested and excited by the hope that Barack Obama is inspiring,” he said, but went on to accuse him of a “phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional” voting record. Not that I’m accusing Sean [...]
Tags: 2008 election, use your head
1. Trespass. 2. Duck Marine Fire. 3. ? 4. Profit!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Oddly Not Satire
Well, this is an all new level of stupid: Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape. Behind the wheel was a suspected scrap metal thief who had been combing the Marine [...]
Tags: use your head
Quick, Everybody Panic!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Administrative
From NLB, a fine takedown of the moronic nanny-state notion of banning nail guns because they’re *gasp* dangerous. Time to close the “hardware store loophole”! We need to shut down Home Depot and Lowe’s immediately, people. Do you know how many stabby things there are in those stores alone? Not to mention poisons, electrical thingies, [...]
Tags: creating news where there is none, point and laugh, use your head
