Year: 2005
Wash Your Damn Hands!
Ogre repeats an old Marine joke which I’m just a little too smart to enjoy anymore: A Sailor is relieving himself in the head when a Marine walks in and steps up to the urinal beside him. After a few seconds the Sailor finishes, shakes, zips and walks over to the sink to wash his… Read more
First-Time Drug Sale + Gun = 55 Years
Stephen Littau has a good article on the insanely huge sentence received by Weldon Angelos, whose first-time bust for selling marijuana earned him a stunning 55-year mandatory sentence because he had a gun on him. He didn’t shoot anybody. He didn’t even brandish the gun. He just had it with him. Read more
Ripley on Stage
A while back I was doing a product photo for something I was selling on eBay when Ripley wandered in to see what was happening. Ripley on Stage Read more
Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3
My current camera is a Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3. People ask me if it’s a good camera, and I’m not sure how to answer that. Some people look at it and assume it’s a great camera because it’s larger than those tiny digital cameras that everyone seems to have in their pocket. But the truth is… Read more
DUI Eye Test a Fraud?
According to DUIblogger Lawrence Taylor, the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test is essentially a fraud. This is the follow-the-pen eye test that cops use to test drivers for impairment, and it’s one of only three tests approved by the Department of Transportation. Taylor quotes a recent study: This summary critique demonstrates that it is scientifically… Read more