Year: 2007

It seems like some of our leaders have most certainly lost their perspective. Here’s a funny illustration of it.

I noticed this on a bag of marshmallows today:

So now they’re advertising the calories and lack of trans fat, as if the person reaching into the bag cares. They’re marshmallows, for crying out loud! If I’m the kind of guy who cares about my trans fat intake, you can be sure I’m not stuffing marshmallows down my gullet!

“I want to hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m going to put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’ll have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.”

— Mitch Hedberg

True anecdote:

In Tennessee, you can purchase a stamp from the Department of Revenue and affix the stamp to your bundle of weed or your vial of crack or whatever illegal drug you happen to be using today. Then, of course, you pay a tax to the state based on the street value of your illegal substance. This is the law, and if you’re caught with drugs but no stamps, you’ll be fined up to ten times the cost of the product.

Even more amazing, Tennessee has made $3.5M from the program. That means people are actually getting these stamps and paying their taxes like good little citizens. Wow.

From a legal standpoint, it seems like getting caught with unstamped drugs puts you in double jeopardy: you’re prosecuted for having the goodies, and you’re also fined for not having the stamps. Surely someone will be in court and argue that it’s unconstitutional, which would be an interesting way to get out of a drug charge.

From an economic standpoint, it’s just plain funny. Since having stamps doesn’t make you immune from criminal possession charges, the only reason you’d buy them is so if you get caught your fines are smaller.

Ahh, how I love our country.

Wow, it’s been cold around here. But when I saw our thermometer:

I figure it’s a sign of Armageddon or something.

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by things other than power.”

— David Brin

I was reading some product reviews over at NewEgg, and found this awesome one.

So I have one of these idiotic requests for money, which I’m sending back to the solicitors with a polite note to never ever send me anything again, and I noticed this little note in the upper-left corner of the return envelope:

Do they think for some reason that such a note will cause the U.S. Postal Service to somehow treat this letter differently than the millions of others it’s sorting and processing today? Will some machine scanning envelopes pick up the “PLEASE RUSH” note and slip it into a special bin so it gets put on the turbo route?

Dorks.

The American Dialect Society (who knew there was such a group) has awarded the 2006 Word of the Year honors to:

That’s awesome. May Pluto live forever, even if only in our memories.

The winner of the 2006 Wacky Warning Labels Award, seen in a laundromat: