The Internet is enabling the proliferation of a culture entirely bereft of tact.
Think of it. Online, you can be completely anonymous and almost entirely unaccountable for your actions. This kind of anonymity can be a great thing. It can encourage debate and discussion where censorship (or even persecution) would otherwise result. [...]

Patti Davis, special commentator to Newsweek magazine, has a darkly humorous rant available on MSNBC today about the TSA’s latest invention to combat terrorists in airports: “Behavior Detection Officers.” These specially-trained security guards’ sole duty will be to scrutinize the facial expressions of airport patrons, looking for tiny outward signs that passengers may be [...]

Highlights:

Vomit-green Scion xB, lowered to the point of immobility.
Water added to the driveway so the wheels would spin.
After a few seconds of annoying Black & Decker sounds, the transaxle snaps.
Simultaneously, the side marker light pops out. ZING! Instant win.

Part not shown:

Driver crawls away and slits his own wrists.

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. But seriously, if the “Hollywood elites” want people to get on board with the green movement, some of them are clearly going about it the [...]

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. Whoa, imagine that — a processed, prepackaged dip product that doesn’t actually contain fresh ingredients. Did you just emerge from [...]

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). The association is using a covenant that bars signs “that can be considered divisive,” after a handful of residents [...]

Apple was up at the salon getting her hair cut this morning when she happened to overhear the following pearl of wisdom from an old fuddy-duddy sitting nearby:

“Why are we paying for all those Americans who are getting evacuated from Lebanon? What a waste of our tax dollars! They should have known better [...]

According to this CNN story, a Louisiana man has filed a lawsuit against Apple Computer, claiming that the iPod MP3 player is “defective” because it has the potential to cause hearing loss in people who use it.
Apparently ignoring the fact that lawn mowers, shotguns and vacuum cleaners can also cause hearing loss in people who [...]

My wife Apple works at a restaurant, so of course there are always plenty of comedy bits to hear about when she gets home. Tales of stingy customers, drunken fools, employee drama, etc. are always entertaining, sometimes maddening. I heard a story last night of a party who was determined to get their [...]