The Iraq War veteran and Occupy sympathizer critically injured by Oakland police this week—only to emerge as a symbol of the movement and, yes, attract international attention—has regained consciousness. Which should have Oakland officials sighing in deep, sweet relief as they try to put down their shovels in the name of damage control and stop trying to dig themselves deeper and deeper.
In other Occupy news, San Diego police arrested some 50 campers who had been told they could spend the night outside city hall so long as they brought along nothing that would make sleeping in an outdoor concrete plaza any more comfortable.
Barack Obama’s campaign donors technically aren’t lobbyists. But don’t be misled. Some of the “bundlers” his staff relies on to squeeze those donors for millions of bucks, and even toss in a little themselves, are lobbyists in all but name.
As far as Michele Bachmann is concerned, some Tea Partiers are picking up their teddy bears and dainty, miniature tea cups and heading home.
Years ago, $6.6 billion in U.S. aid meant for Iraq’s “reconstruction” vanished. And, hey, look, guess what? Magic! It’s been found.
Inbred British princesses may no longer have to wait for their inbred, twitty younger brothers to die or marry American divorcees or whatever to become queen.
Ten years after a onetime peasant gave the law the slip by fleeing jail in a laundry basket, he has consolidated his power and reach atop one of the world’s most ruthless drug cartels.
The church run by the old, skinny, and stroke-addled man who keeps saying the world will end has scrubbed all doomsday references from its website—meaning it’s safe to keep sending them your money. The Mercury steadfastly refuses to do the same on its website.
DRUGS ARE REALLY BAD THIS KID DIED AND IT WASN’T EVEN REAL POT IT WAS FAKE POT HUFFED FROM A PEZ DISPENSER AAAAHHHH
Mystery Solved No. 1! How Apple godhead Steve Jobs managed to drive an unplated Mercedes without getting ticketed.
Mystery Solved No. 2! Why the Joy of Sex is filled with drawings of creepy, hairy people.
OH, AND LOOK! IT IS ALREADY TIME FOR THE REST OF THE COUNTRY TO START OBSESSING OVER THE EASTERN SEABOARD’S WEATHER! BRR! SNOW!
14 year old boys should be experimenting with real pot, not some dangerous stuff made in a lab. Smoking out of a plastic Pez dispenser is also utterly ridiculous. Had that poor kid had something like the same introduction to pot that most of us had as teens, he would’ve used a pop can, or made something from tin foil, instead, which would have been far safer (although the pop can thing isn’t terribly safe, it’s probably safer than melting plastic, which is horribly toxic).
This is not to say that all 14 year-olds should be experimenting with drugs, just that if they do (and we know that they probably will), that they should do it as safely as possible.
I really liked this video of a Wall Street CEO talking to the Occupy crowds yesterday. Once they stopped shouting nonsense and started talking to him, they couldn’t answer any of his VERY SIMPLE questions or counter any of his points. They end up just standing there looking at him….not much cogitation going on there, just blank “Does Not Compute” stares…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_MvzhA_q4
@ reymont
funny!!
That was the earliest version of “The Joy of Sex,” Denis, there’s a later version wih less-hairy drawings, and another with photos. Those are fine, but you always remember the first.
If the kid had a successful lung transplant I dont see the need for me to stop smoking cigarrettes…
Somebody probably just took the $6 billion home for safekeeping until things calmed down. Remember that mascot goat that went missing when the Canby Cougars played the Sandy Pioneers in football back in ’81? Somebody probably just borrowed it because the noise from the cheering was upsetting it. And really did plan to bring it back later. And her hair was so soft, *so* soft.