Oddball Update

Some 40 percent of Americans would curb their driving habits if retail gasoline prices shot up to $3.50 a gallon, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
Reuters
Did Reuters go back in time to 1997 so they could write this story?

I awoke today to discover another grim reminder in the local newspaper — a reminder of just how inexplicably dangerous it is to get behind the wheel in Florida.

Apparently there have been some “hijinks” at the local EB Games store where I usually shop — the manager of the store embezzled between $50,000 and $70,000 from the company back in 2005.

Okay, so I manufactured the so-called “study” sent up by the title of this post. But it’s the natural conclusion for one to draw after reading this article on my most-loathed cable news website, MSNBC.com.

Read this, then come back. I’ll be waiting.
School Board Ponders Student’s Counter-Strike Map of His School
Finished? Okay.

Well, I have to hand it to Sony’s Playstation division.

I’ve been getting more and more interested in finding things we can do at home to help be more friendly to the environment. And yesterday was Earth Day.

I think the MSNBC headline for this story is mostly sensational, but in reading the article, I believe the points to be spot-on.

Most people simply wouldn’t buy the product again, but this lady apparently has a retribution complex — she’s suing Kraft Foods because their guacamole dip doesn’t contain enough actual avocado for her taste.

Not ours, at least. This time, it’s an HOA in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, which has ordered resident Lisa Jensen to take down her holiday wreath that’s shaped like a peace symbol (pictured at right).