Three coach-pitch baseball games in three days. That's brutal. The first one is tonight. I'll miss part of it because my other son has a pitching lesson scheduled. I must attend in order to figure out why he's not throwing like Nolan Ryan yet. I need to be able to bark tips from the sidelines like an overbearing, my-son-is-going-to-the-MLB father.
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At least the couple is married. Twisted, but married:
A German couple had to call out the fire brigade after tying each other up in chains - and then losing the key to the padlock.
Jochen Ranstett, 56 and his wife Maria, from the town of Weiden, dressed up in leathers and chained each other to their beds, but lost the key during the romp.
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Wi-fi radiation a risk? Some health experts in Britain are concerned about children. Over half of voters in my earlier poll think wi-fi could pose a legitimate health risk.
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This story is odd enough, but there's a twist that makes it even odder. See if you can find it:
A man's vehicle was vandalized and his father's ashes were dumped in his front lawn, authorities said.
Wayne C. Carraway, 35, said he believed a robber broke into his 1987 Ford Bronco and thought a cedar box with a plastic bag full of his father's ashes contained drugs. Nothing in the car was stolen, he said. . . .
Carraway's father died in 1995. Carraway was going to spread the ashes along the Fakahatchee Strand in the Florida Everglades, which was his father's favorite spot for fishing.
I'm guessing the guy was honoring the ashes (urn-like), then decided to take them to the Everglades.
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Thank you, Dr. Obvious:
"My opinion is that the media is the main supporter of healthy eating. We're certainly not hearing it from our customers," said Andrew Puzder, who is the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's."And [surveys] show that while consumers say they want to eat healthier, what they actually want is a big juicy burger," Puzder said during an interview Tuesday with CNNMoney.com.
Actually, I know where he's coming from. The media blasts away at fastfood chains for unhealthy food, but that's what the customer wants. The media should be blasting away at the french-fry addicts, not the local McDonald's franchisor.
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For crying out loud, this is getting confusing. Can we just say "fag" and be done with it?
A "Top Gear" presenter has been rapped by the British media guardian for using a slang word for homosexuals to describe a car he didn't like.
The Office of Communication said "Top Gear" host Jeremy Clarkson was not justified to say "a bit of ginger beer," Cockney rhyming slang for queer, The Daily Mail said Tuesday.
Discussing a Daihatsu Copen during an episode last year, Clarkson at first called the vehicle "a bit gay" before adding, "It's a bit ginger beer." The communications watchdog said using the word "gay" was not necessarily offensive, citing the dictionary's definition of the word.
But, the office said, Clarkson's "use of a Cockney rhyming phrase made clear he intended to give a particular meaning to use of the word 'gay' ... i.e., not to restrict its meaning simply to foolish or stupid, but clearly linking the reference to homosexual people."
This whole story has a strain of queerola in it.
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I stumbled across this blog today: Mosquewatch. I can't vouch for its accuracy, but it's interesting. Excerpt from a post yesterday:
Now many people are interested in Islam, and Muslims aren't able to silence everyone. Moreover, with the advent of the Internet, it is now impossible to keep Muhammad's life a secret. The facts about the founder of Islam are spreading very rapidly, and Muslims are frantically scurrying to defend their faith. But the information superhighway is paving over the ignorance that has for centuries been the stronghold of Islamic dogma. In the end, Islam will fall, for the entire structure is built upon the belief that Muhammad was the greatest moral example in history, and this belief is demonstrably false.
