* Top Secret America is a new series at WaPo you must, must, MUST follow!
* App stops passive aggressive email. In other news, all the worlds’ mothers found they couldn’t send email today.
* Wait, wait, WAIT– there’s BPA in receipt paper???
* Hey, London Times, ‘how’d that pay wall work out? Oh wow, that much??
* Depressing article debunks the myth that the unemployed just need to pick up some new skills to find work: “Those who went through training wound up earning little more than those who did not, even three and four years later.”
* Have you heard that “there are five job seekers for every position”? Even the prez said it. ‘Sounds awful, doesn’t it? The reality behind this statistic is even more depressing.
* Jewish ex-gay group counsels men to take off their shirts and touch it while they watch. Oh… kay…
* AZ senate candidate, when asked how to help their states’ looming health insurance crisis: “Many of the one million Arizonans without health insurance are illegal aliens.” Quick, I need a pic of Clancy Wiggum patting his hands!
* I call BS on Oedipus Beck. I once wrote a paper on blindness (One of my dad’s co-workers was blind– he heard sirens before anyone else and his computer talked so I thought he was the coolest guy ever!) One of the few things I can recall about macular dystrophy is that it starts in childhood. You go blind by 20, if it’s treated properly– you know Glenda don’t go to no doctors! I think it’s a publicity stunt to boost low ratings, or something else entirely.
* Try to “refudiate” the fun in this “Write Your Own Sarah ‘Shakespeare’ Palin Lines” forum…
“We shouldn’t questiate or mockle Sarah Palin’s righbility to simply evoluten the English language.”
* Follow the Twitter #ShakesPalin hash:
“Oh God, I could be bounded in my porch, and count myself an expert on Foreign Policy.”
“If Bristol needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know what pit bulls you make of them.”
* Is anyone else reminded of the Ebonics controversy? No? Wow, I’m old.
* The Oregonian reports on Kyron Horman’s disappearance, hundreds comment. Hundreds of idiots:
“I agree that a credible psychic should be utilized just like any other resource.”
“A psychic? You want to spend public funds on a fortune-teller? How ’bout a good-old fashioned witch-dunking, or maybe we could throw in a little spectral evidence, while we’re at it?”
“ESP is intuition, heightened intuition. Everyone has it…people develop it. Interestingly enough alot of people who are ‘psychic’ are also religious. I believe God uses people to use those skills. It isn’t hoeey and nothing to be afraid of. The only issue would be the fakes.”
* Speaking of mocking crazies, you’ve laughed at one-star reviews of great literature, but have you checked out IMDb’s “loved it!” reviews of G_d-awful movies? These people are either corporate shills or mental patients typing with their feet:
“I really liked this movie. Fun watching all the Beaautiful women and the rich lifestyles of the main Characters. Jenna Elfman in her red Dress is enough for me to pay the price of admission. So I don’t understand the haters. Not every movie is Star Treck. Sometimes Campy, funny humor is all some people need. Get a sense of humor and if you don’t have one don’t rent it. If you do you might like it. I know I did.”
