Microsoft, in conjunction with Feeding America, is trying to fight hunger through the “Browser for the Better” campaign. According to Microsoft’s press release, it works like this: “For every completed download of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft’s Browser for the Better campaign (running today through Aug. 8, 2009*) will donate the financial equivalent of eight meals [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Here we go again. Another idiot cop does something blatantly racist, and then claims not to be racist. Justin Barrett, a Boston police officer, sent a totally moronic email to the Boston Globe and some fellow National Guards members in which he referred to Henry Gates, the Harvard professor, as “banana-eating” and a “bumbling jungle [...]
Allen Stanford, the idiot accused of a $7 billion fraud (another Ponzi scheme), is complaining that the jail cell where he is being held has no air conditioning. Obviously he should be moved to a jail that does have air conditioning. Whatever, asshole! You’re in jail. You will not find all of the comforts of [...]
First, a little background. Luis Jiminez is an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who was seriously injured by a drunk driver in 2000 in Florida. The drunk driver hit the van Jiminez was riding in, leaving him a paraplegic. He remained in a vegetative state for a year. Now he has the cognitive ability of a [...]
A 19-year old in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was hit by a car and suffered minor injuries. He was trying to cross Quinpool Road and couldn’t be bothered to cross in a crosswalk. As a result of his failure to use the crosswalk he was charged with failing to yield to a vehicle. Constable Brian Palmeter [...]
Scott Janke, a town manager in Florida, was fired at an emergency meeting because of his marriage to a porn star last year. Mayor Larry Kiker found out last Tuesday that Janke’s wife is a porn star and did what any rational human being would do – he called for an emergency meeting. The town [...]
First up is Trooper Daniel Martin of Oklahoma. He decided to pull an ambulance over for a traffic violation (seriously…WTF?!?) Not giving a rat’s ass that there was a patient in the ambulance, he then proceeded to swear at one of the paramedics and ended up getting into a scuffle with him. What a classy [...]
Last we heard, nine people had tested positive for hepatitis C in the Kristen Diane Parker case. Now the count is up to nineteen. Also, Parker is now facing new charges. In addition to the three previous federal charges, she now faces 21 counts of tampering with a consumer product and 21 counts of obtaining [...]
Apparently there’s a lot of confusion in Minneapolis regarding two airport terminals. The two terminals, Humphrey and Lindbergh, are three miles apart and on separate highway exits. There is no road connecting the two. And apparently about 25,000 people each year go to the wrong terminal. To rectify the situation, the commission that runs the [...]
Zach McGuire, an 11-year old boy from Ohio, is selling his toys to help his family in these tough economic times. Zach’s father hasn’t worked since December of last year and the family’s bills are piling up. Says Zach, “You can’t live in toys, or eat toys. Even though they are fun, you don’t need [...]
