Idiot Crisis

Smack your Mac to change virtual desktops! Awesome!

Air America commits a crime called journalism.

One of the things I’ve always admired about Oprah was that she’s “everyday people” just like you and me. I can’t believe that all those people standing around wouldn’t just do it for her, especially since she “hasn’t pumped gas since 1983.” Congratulations Oprah, for relearning what I’ve been doing for the past 20 years. What’s next? Is she going to get a job?

Radio Shack is now on the list of stores to avoid on principle.

RadioShack uses e-mail to fire 400 employees as part of planned job cuts

FORT WORTH, Texas — RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters got messages Tuesday morning saying: “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”

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Derrick D’Souza, a management professor at the University of North Texas, said he had never heard of such a large number of terminated employees being notified electronically. He said it could be seen as dehumanizing to employees.

“If I put myself in their shoes, I’d say, ‘Didn’t they have a few minutes to tell me?’” D’Souza said.

And the stock market said “woo hoo! Fuck ethics/civility or treating human beings like uh, human beings! Show us more money! We love money!”

Shares of RadioShack rose 29 cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at $18.21 Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

omg, exactly…

When I was 14, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend.

When I was 16, I got a girlfriend, but there was no passion. So I decided I needed a passionate girl with a zest for life.

In college, I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency; she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide. So I decided I needed a girl with stability.

When I was 25, I found a very stable girl but she was boring. She was totally predictable and never got excited about anything. Life became so dull that I decided that I needed a girl with some excitement.

When I was 28, I found an exciting girl, but I couldn’t keep up with her. She rushed from one thing to another, never settling on anything. She did mad impetuous things and made me miserable as often as happy. She was great fun initially and very energetic, but directionless. So I decided to find a girl with some real ambition.

When I turned 31, I found a smart ambitious girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and married her. She was so ambitious that she divorced me and took everything I owned.

I am now 40 and am looking for a girl with great big boobs.

The guys at EepyBird are credited as being responsible for the “Mentos and Diet Coke Fadnomenon.” (YouTube video)

Of course, this inspired all kinds of flattery in the form of imitation, the sincerest form of fucktardery. And why wouldn’t it, when the ingredients are so inexpensive, so easily available online, and can be shipped direct to your door?(Links to buy Mentos and Diet Coke on Amazon, where both products are listed in the Gourmet Food category.)

Check this out: (YouTube video)

And this, which is best at the end, when they have the “Borat Replay”: (YouTube video)

This guy chews up some Mentos and drinks some Diet Coke. Is it hilarity that ensues? (YouTube video)

I’m tempted to do my own. Honestly. I truly am.

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” - Sinclair Lewis

“My friends, we’re going to run this idea on positive, constructive ideas, and it’s important that we motivate and inspire people for something.”

Apparently Republican Senator George Allen thinks that making a racial slur towards an American Citizen of Indian decent is a positive, constructive idea:

“This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. He’s with my opponent. He’s following us around everywhere. And it’s just great. We’re going to places all over Virginia, and he’s having it on film and its great to have you here and you show it to your opponent because he’s never been there and probably will never come.”

(emphasis added)

The Washington Post gives the following information about the “fellow here over here with the yellow shirt”:

S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera to document his travels and speeches for the Webb campaign. During a campaign speech Friday in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen singled out Sidarth and called him a word that sounded like “Macaca.”
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After telling the crowd that Webb was raising money in California with a “bunch of Hollywood movie moguls,” Allen again referenced Sidarth, who was born and raised in Fairfax County.

While “Macaca” (spelled here and elsewhere phoenetically) is a racial slur I’ve never heard before, it’s quite apparent that in Allen’s arrogant ignorance he considered Sidarth to be from a foreign country, not a native-born American citizen.

More from the video:

So, welcome, let’s give a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia.”

I think the only appropriate response to Senator George Allen is a good hearty “FUCK YOU, RACIST ASSHOLE.” Hopefully the voters in Virginia will agree… with their ballots.

(thanks to Daily KOS and Crooks and Liars)

What a grade-A moron!

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A 32-year-old woman wielding a machete was arrested Sunday outside the White House, the Secret Service said.

Spokeswoman Kim Bruce said Ashwak Saleh was taken into custody and charged with possession of a prohibited weapon after she displayed a 13-inch machete on the sidewalk outside the White House.
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The witnesses said passersby then alerted Secret Service officers, one of whom approached the woman and told her to “Drop the blade.”

To that, Saleh said, “What are you going to do — shoot me?”