For extra credit, who can name for me Cheech and Chong's seven movies?
Oaksterdam University prepares people for jobs in California's thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn how to cultivate and cook with cannabis, study which strains of pot are best for certain ailments, and are instructed in the legalities of a business that is against the law in the eyes of the federal government.
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While looking up how many Cheech and Chong made, I ran across this Wikipedia plot summary of Next Movie. It begins, "Cheech & Chong's Next Movie opens with the two aging stoners stealing gas in a trashcan, spilling it on themselves, and subsequently blowing up their car after trying to light a joint with gasoline fumes filling the vehicle."
Now that's art.
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Great assortment of English castle pictures over at Let Britannia Rise. Check it out.
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Need a hymnal cover for your iPod? How about iPod disco lights? You can find them at this list of 10 weird iPod accessories.
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Fellow Detroit Tigers fans: Feel-good Tiger story of the year. The Tigers are loaded, but don't get cocky. They could be fantastic, they could struggle. Either way, they'll be good, but they're not a lock for the playoffs.
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Dial 1-900-Auction: Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.
A man who tolerates his wife's infidelities is called a "wittol" or "cuckold." What's the equivalent for a woman? If there is no such word, perhaps we can coin one. How about, um, oh, I don't know. A "Hillary"?
Harsh? Maybe. If I had any reliable indication she stayed with Bill out of obedience to her marriage vows or other higher calling, I'd recant in a moment. Thing is, I simply don't think such things kept the Senator from New York from leaving him.
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A Wisconsin man using a torch to clear snow in front of a garage door accidentally set fire to a shed on Sunday afternoon, causing $20,000 in damage. The guy is only 23 years-old. He can't shovel? It reminds of the joke, "What are the most common last words of a person in Wisconsin?" Answer: "Here, hold my beer and watch this."
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A nine-year-old girl has been banned from playing tennis by her local club because she grunts too loudly. She's a fan of Maria Sharapova, but young lady, you're no Maria Sharapova.
