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ETS on June 30th, 2004

So I’ve been thinking…. While at work, if I make good on my visceral urge to kick anyone who gets close enough, would that be considered grounds for workers comp? I mean, would it depend upon the severity of the injury? “No” if they’re only limping for a day or two and “Yes” if I somehow [...]

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Amy M. on June 30th, 2004

Ok…JAY started it over at ETS’s in a guest post entitled Calling all 80’s Metal Heads…. And I enjoyed playing along. So now I present to you a new Metal Lyrics challenge for your pleasure. They range in time period a bit more than Jay’s…so I can’t call it an 80’s metal quiz. Anyway, [...]

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Amy M. on June 30th, 2004

As seen on CNN.COM: An edgy new advertising campaign to promote organ donation hints that police officers should cut speeders who are organ donors some slack. “Hey policeman,” a Cleveland billboard calls out, an arrow pointing to a donor insignia on a young man’s license, “give this guy a break.” Ok…I read the full article and looked [...]

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Pete on June 29th, 2004

Tomorrow morning I leave for a certain midwestern city known for it’s arch. The reason for my visiting said city is top secret. After undertaking my top secret role, I intend to head home before coming back to Tuscaloosa. I may post from home, I may not. I may post the night I get back, I [...]

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Pete on June 29th, 2004

3D Ultrasound For what it’s worth, here are some 3D ultrasound images at various stages of pregnancy. If you can look at the picture of the 28 week old fetus and say that it’s mother should be able to kill it just because she wants to, well, I daresay you’re not fit to live on my [...]

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Pete on June 29th, 2004

You want to know what annoys me? People who are morbidly obese and then complain that they have to buy extra tickets on the plane. What’s worse is when they sue for it. SANTA FE (AP) — A brother and sister from northern New Mexico are suing Southwest Airlines for humiliation after an airline employee told [...]

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Pete on June 29th, 2004

So at lunch a co-worker said he wanted to see the film Super-Size Me. I thought about it for a few minutes and decided, well… here’s what I decided… So let me get this straight. A guy eats McDonalds for every meal, usually supersized. This is, by any measure, far more than the average American consumes [...]

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Pete on June 28th, 2004

Being the son of a Marine, I’ve got a special place in my heart for The Few and The Proud, so when I heard that the Peace Activists in Iraq took a marine hostage I had two immediate thoughts the first was a supreme level of disgust even greater than was conjured up by the [...]

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Pete on June 28th, 2004

I was doing my usual reading and found a story about an ALDOT (Vernon Blake) worker who documented that his boss (George Dobbs) spent well over half of his time at work playing solitaire. As you might expect, bringing this to the attention of his boss’s supervisor got the guy fired. The troubling part, however, [...]

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Pete on June 27th, 2004

You may remember my blog about the best drunk-dial ever and the subsequesent WEAK ASS effort by Manny… well… Manny has upped the stakes a little bit. Observe the two voicemails last night that Manny sent while we were trying to teach him how to drink like a southerner: Click Here to download. If the quality of [...]

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