The execution took place shortly after 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET).

Editor Comment: Kangaroo courts and hasty, irreversible implementations of punishment are appalling, even when the accused is actually guilty. Trial sure wasn't fair, but that doesn't mean that the outcome wasn't.

As president, anything he did was lawful. That was actual written Iraqi law. So now we're just arguing over whose laws to recognize. It's true; I'm not trying to be a smartass. Under the former Iraqi constitution, any action taken by the president was legal. This argument was actually used by Saddam himself as well as his defense attorneys.

If you're going to state that Saddam murdered his own people, you have to specify under what system of lraq. Because under Iraqi law at the time, he did not "murder" anyone, as his actions were legal and constitutional.

In regards to the execution of Saddam Hussein

I have very little to say on the subject, other than to say it saddens me that so many people are taking delight in the killing of another human being.

Yes, a very bad human being, but a human being nonetheless.

Regardless of whether capital punishment is just and righteous, it seems like it should still be a somber event, not a time for rejoicing.

It is a sad time for humanity when someone is deemed so evil that they must be killed. I am not happy about his death. I believed he needed to be eliminated for the greater good.

Now we just have to kill Osama and Kim, then the world will be covered in rainbows and everyone will hug and share ice cream cones while riding ponies.

In all honesty. What was achieved here?
Sadly, nothing. People will still die in Iraq, good and bad people. They will only have to shift their fears from a bloodthirsty dictator to bloodthirsty insurgents. I imagine that even the most dedicated Bush-haters would take up arms against any foreign power that invaded the USA and put our President on trial. Should we expect anything else over there?

Why wasn't he tried for the other 3000,000 or so said to have been killed? did they just not bother?
The current Iraqi government figured that it was important to execute Hussein, so they found the most effective and quickest accusation to find him guilty. There are a significant number of deposed Iraqi leaders who hoped to bring Hussein back into power, but because of Hussein's death, they have nothing. To hold trial for so many other crimes would have lasted many years, so they hit upon the quickest way to shuffle him loose the mortal coil. Much like the Nuremberg trials after WWII, he was guilty of so many crimes, and all of them would have lead to his execution, so they put him in the express lane.

His execution doesn't solve a single problem.
Untrue. His execution makes it absolutely impossible for him to rule Iraq again. Thank you to the soldiers that have died to make our world safer place.



Saddam to be hanged by Sunday

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which begins at sundown Saturday.

There were reports that the US had handed the former dictator had been handed over to Iraqi authorities - but State Department sources denied this.

Editor Comment: Kangaroo court renders verdict.

That's great, but where exactly is the man right now? The US says the Iraqis have him while the Iraqis claim the Americans still have him. Has he been misplaced?

I feel safer already.

Now that they're hanging Saddam, I've decided to support the Iraq War!

Is this going to be on regular TV or pay per view?

I just wish we could have strung Castro right up alongside Saddam to see them both kick.

I'd wager that a majority of the US population couldn't tell you for which of his actual atrocities he's actually being executed for and even if they'd hazard a guess, most would be wrong.

Most Americans hate Saddam because he's a dark-complected bearded man fro the middle east, who speaks a language other than English and is not a Christian. That's all most Americans need to condemn someone as evil and wish death upon them.

Saddam is being hung for gassing the Kurds.

Saddam killed lots of people, many with chemical weapons, ran an authoritarian state supported by vast secret police networks and lots of fear along with loads of patronage for anyone willing to be a lackey, though this wasn't considered a problem by the powers that be until he invaded the wrong country. Really, until he invaded Kuwait, Iraq was considered an ally of Western governments, a bulwark revolutionary Khomeinism in neighboring Iran. Now Iraq's various rulers want to be buddy-buddy with their Iranian nneighbors, including the guy whose name no fucker can spell. There are numerous Shi'a holy sites that religious Muslim Iranians would like to visit (which means pilgrims spending dinars at Iraqi businesses) and having good relations with Iran eliminates on potential source of conflict for the Iraqi regime.

Less learned: get really explicit permission to invade a neighborfrom London and Washington first. Don't just go by some pissant diplomat's vague promises of noninterference.

The particularly ironic part is that during the time he was committing these atrocities, he was being fully funded by the US because he was fighting Iran. It's historical fact. Sad, pathetic historical fact.

The neat part about executing him now would be that it would prevent the next trial, which would have allowed Saddam to present evidence of all the support he has received from past Republican US presidents. Remember, kids: always silence your patsies.

To me, this victory is akin to getting Al Capone on tax evasion...

Why do people think he death will mean all the problems in Iraq will be solved? This will change nothing except Saddams's existential status.

When he dies he will become a Martyr for radical Islam for as long as Islam exists. He should rot in jail until he dies.

And to all of you belonging to the "Save Saddam Brigade" take your plea to Iraq, and see how sympathetic the Shias and Kurds are to your cause.

Personally, I prefer keeping him alive and locked up in solitary in a cell covered with the pictures of the people he ordered the deaths of. He gets ten minutes of human contact per day; with the relatives of each of the people he is responsible for killing, one family per day.

I imagine he might get used to the spitbaths after awhile, but solitary confinement and a lack of human contact can be worse punishment than death, and having to face the families of the people he ordered the slaughter of would, to me, be a greater justice than just killing him and setting him free from ongoing recriminations and debasement.

I dunno, I think facing the people whose lives he wrecked would be a greater than the sweet release of death. I guess it depends if you believe in an afterlife of reward and/or punishment or not.

On that note, did anyone read Saddam's farewell letter? The United States censored its 14 lines down t a mere 3. It's not enough that they're going to execute the man; they can't even allow him the privilege of a final address.

I think that we were deceived by our own hubris, our pride in our country, in our just cause of freedom, in our position as the most powerful nation in the world. And, like the inevitable conclusion of every Greek tragedy, he who has sinned, who has stood proud in his hubris, will fall. And when the fall comes, it will be fast, hard and extremely painful for everyone involved.

/The difference between a monster and a monster-slayer is that the monster knows what he is.



Child's new computer full of porn

A Chicago family are trying to get a warning out after they said a computer they bough as a child's gift turned out to be laden with pornography.

Rich and Joy Donaldson had something special planned this Christmas for their 13-year-old son, Simeon: a new computer.

"On Christmas Day we set it up, hit Internet Explorer and the first thing to pop up was a porn site," Rick Donaldson said. "That was a shocker."

Rick Donaldson said he purchased the computer from a Comp USA store in Skokie, Ill. It was a floor model Donaldson bought at a discount, but the father never imagined that such content would be on the computer. He said the URL that appeared wasn't just pornographic, but racist, too.

Editor Comment: Lucky kid

I wish my computer came pre-loaded with pornography.

Looks like daddy had a chance to "test out" the computer before they wrapped it... sounds like daddy hasn't heard of pop-up blocker or Ad-Aware.

See, this is why I always use the kid's computer when surfing for porn. Plausible deniability.

There probably wasn't any porn on the actual computer. As a joke, somebody probably just set the floor model's home page to a pron site. Gets in the news, cost the store $100... I declare this prank a complete success! Comp USA must have some really shady employees.

Bit early to play the 'race' card. I have been surfing the web for 14 years now and seen just about everything, good and bad, you can see. I have yet to see racist porn.

Comp USA should have given him a new computer and stashed this one for evidence. The fact that they scrubbed it and gave it back just erased any forensic evidence on where it may have come from (store or the family, Comp USA employees looking at internet porn ?!?! Inconceivable!) Now when they get sued its a he said she said. and in that area of Chicago the big company is going to take it in the ass.

If they are smart they made him sign a waiver when he accepted the $100 as compensation.

I won't go into detail, but CP websites are super rare and usually get shutdown in the short term, if not for drawing to much attention (these days, its fairly easy for a "hot" link to spread like wildfire just by letting it drop in a few public forums), then because the provider dosen't want it on his network (doesn't matter if it is illegal or not in other countries, most businesses do not want to be know for hosting CP). Also hosting websites leaves to much of a traceable trail.



Former President Gerald Ford Dies

Former President Gerald R. Ford, who declared "Our long national nightmare is over" as he replaced Richard Nixon buy may have doomed his own chances of election by pardoning his disgraced predecessor, has died. He was 93.

The nation's 38th president, and the only one elected to neither the office of president nor vice president, died at his home at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Ford was the longest living former president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, who died in June 2004.

Ford took the office moments after Nixon resigned in disgrace over Watergate.

He revived the debate over Watergate a month later by granting Nixon a pardon for all crimes he committed as president.

That single act, it was widely believed, contributed to Ford losing election to a term of his own in 1976. but it won praise in later years as a courageous act that allowed the nation to move on.

Editor Comment: I've always respected Ford. He seemed to be a very straightforward, honest guy who genuinely wanted to do the right thing.

A little history lesson for some of you:

Richard Nixon did not start the Vietnam Conflict (or War as many prefer to call it). We were there way before. Richard N. Goodwin in "Remembering America" A Voice fro the Sixties" quotes JFK as saying "they are trying to push me into a war in Viet Nam." Although they ''they'' are never identified. It was under LBJ that the war escalated. It was during Nixon's administration that it finally came to a head and ended.

Gerald Ford did the right thing pardoning Nixon. Nixon left office in shame and humiliation. The country needed to move forward, not spend another three years reliving the terrible past.

Maybe he was a puppet president. Maybe he was not. But he did succeed in bringing a lot of respect back to the Nation and helped us to put the past behind where it belonged.

Everyone bashing Ford is forgetting how he became president in the first place. He was essentially hand-picked by the Democrats because he was a Republican that they could work with. Agnew had resigned and Nixon was either going to resign or be impeached. During the backroom wheeling and dealing to se who would be the next president. Ford's name came up because he was a Republican that was not a Richard Nixon. Ford was palatable to the Democrats because he was a moderate Republican. Gerald Ford was not a new-con.

Ford pardoned Nixon so the nation could move onto more pressing matters. The last thing that we needed while we were so freaked out about the USSR and China, stagflation and the impending oil crisis was for the nation to watch as the US Government tore itself apart. Sure, it would have been satisfying to tear Nixon down and throw him in prison, but would it have really been the right thing to do? Who would it have served? Nixon was where he could do no more harm, and his reputation was forever tarnished. Ford obviously did not think that it was in our best interest to hound Nixon, and history agrees with him. (Now he can pardon Nixon out of hell.)

He is remembered as something very rare in Wahsington DC: a gentleman politician.

Thanks mainly to Saturday Night Live reruns, most people remember Gerald Ford as the klutzy fool who indefensibly pardoned Nixon. Maybe that's why nobody seems to recall his hand in Indonesia's genocidal campaign against East Timor. Or his membership in the Warren Commission, which determined that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone perpetrator of the JFK assassination.

First things first: Gerald Rudolph Ford was probably the greatest natural athlete who ever assumed the Presidency. Yes, he tripped on the Air Force One staircase in Salzburg, Austria. Everyone knows he tumbled down the stairs in full view of press and local dignitaries. What most people forget is that Ford managed to land on his feet and shake the hands of the reception committee without missing a beat. Try doing that when you're 64 years old.

It is in bad taste to make fun of our arguably second best president.

I'm sure everyone in this community will miss him - even if you didn't vote for him at the time, there's no denying his contributions to political culture. Truly an American icon.

Thank you for your service to your country.

Rest in peace, Mr. Ford.



Santa dies in front of kids

Children watched in horror as a Santa Claus collapsed and died as he handed out presents at a Christmas party.

Andrew Robertson, 82 took ill as excited youngsters were being given their gifts.

Hew was taken to a side room, still dressed in a Father Christmas outfit, and attempts were made to revive him. But when medics arrived, he was pronounced dead.

Editor Comment: This story is hilarious.

Can't stop laughing.

"They knew something was wrong with Santa Claus as he went away with the two guy, but they didn't see anything further". Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Well, now we know what happens when Santa is naughty, don't we kids.

Welcome to reality, children.

"He died doing what he loved best". And how Michael Jackson would want to die - with little boys in his lap.

That's awesome. I am writing a short story about Christmas from the standpoint of a 9-year-old orphan with a potty mouth. He considers Santa to be a dangerous sexual predator. It should be good.

This brightens my day almost as much as the kid yesterday who shot himself playing Russian roulette multiple times in a row.

Just think of how much money he just saved those kids parents!

Sorry Timmy, you can't have a PS3 because Santa is fucking dead.

And that, friends, is why we don't lie to children.

Just remember kids, Santa died because of you.



Officials redirect flag on Freedom Tower

An American flag plastered on the first steel column for the Freedom Tower at ground zero was removed Wednesday after the builders realized the stars and stripes were on the wrong side.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey removed the decal on the 31-foot column after The Associated Press and other media questioned the display, with the 50 stars on the right side instead of the left.

Editor Comment: Great, one beam up, and it's already coming down.

Guess that's what you get when you outsource to *insert 3rd world country here*.

We learned this in Boy Scouts. What a bunch of morons.

it's not even a real flag! It's a decal, probably made in China.

I noticed this when I was watching CNN. Fucking idiots.

If we adopted a flag design similar to Libya's then we'd have no problems.

The whole concept of this "Freedom Tower" seems like a bad idea to me. It is just more jingoistic bs. It is a fucking building. As a symbol it has proven to be more descriptive of a divided American ruled by a very few wealthy elite than a United American standing for Freedom and Liberty.

All they had to do was rebuild the damned towers, just with a less collapse-prone design. Wanna make a "fuck you!" point to the bad guys? Just make'em exactly 1 foot higher than they were before

Why yes of course. A core of 47, person sized, box beams made out of 4 inch steel, with a redundant load sharing matrix to an outside web of steel girders forming modern skyscrapers whose design requirements included taking the impact of a fully loaded 727 and/or hurricane force winds were not up to the job. It is completely unsurprising that the result of black smoking, underfed kerosene fires resulted in the second tower hit freefalling as microfine dust nearly within its own footprint in under an hour. Accidental structural integrity failures are always like that... *poof* ... and the whole thing politely comes to rest in one smooth, graceful, unhindered, fluid motion.

No, I'm sure the Freedom Tower (gag) will be built in such a way that it is completely immune to physical laws.

Back to topic for just a sec, the reason that some flags are shown backwards is that they are representative of a real flag being moved by airflow. Imagine you had a real miniature flag on a pole on each shoulder. When you walk forwards, the flags would be affected by the flow of air. The flag on your right shoulder would have the stars closest to the flagpole. Thus, it would look "backwards" to everybody on your right.

The same thing applies to painted flags on airplanes or cars.

I hope I explained this... I'm getting tired and punchy. I'll read this tomorrow and wonder what the hell I was trying to say.

I'm not pathetic. I'm just an asshole with a brain.

But it is interesting to note that the military has a specific, codified, legal exemption to the "blue field in the upper left" law. And NASA. The flag appears backwards on military aircraft and spaceships.

But paint one on the right side of your car like that, and it's technically a violation of the law.

Freedom Tower is the dumbest name ever. Anyone else think the name is really corny? Reminds me of "Freedom fires".

I think a better name would be the "Attack us and we'll nuke your ass Tower"

If you're so goddamned worried about the proper position of shit in a photo? Tun it around already you Photoshop whores.



Over weight man sues Air France

An overweight passenger has sued Air France after being told he was too fat and had to pay for a second seat to accommodate his bulk.

Jean -Jacques Jauffret, told Reuters he had felt humiliated by Air France staff who had measured his waist in public at New Dehil airport in 2005 and decided he was too big for a single seat.

A lawyer representing Air France told a court the company had a clear policy of asking obese passengers to pay for two seats.

"Let's be objective. This man is fat," lawyer Fernand Gamault told the court in Bobigny. "He barely fits on the courtroom chair.

Jauffret said he weighed more than 160 kilos (352.7 lb) and said he had flown numerous times, including on other Air France flight, without ever being asked to pay more.

Editor Comment: Let's be objective. This man is fat," lawyer Fernand Gamault told the court in Bobigny, according to Le Parisien newspaper. "He barely fits on the courtroom chair. How could he sit in an airplane?"

Dam that's funny... at least the French are good for one thing, insulting people.

Am I the only one here who remembers when it was rare to see an obese person? There are as many seats on a 747 now as there was 25 years ago. You didn't hear this type of complaining then because it wasn't as common. That tells me we have gotten fat.

Airlines have a thing that you can put your carry-on bag into to test if it's to big to fit into the overhead compartment or under your seat. If your bag is too big you have to check it. They should have a test seat... if your ass is too big to fit into the test seat you need to buy an extra seat or go into the cargo hold.

This is a perfect solution to the circumference dilemma. Bonus points: watching one of the borderline guys trying to squeeze the rolls in to only pay for the one seat. That way, if you clearly won't fit, you don't have to be humiliated by trying, you just quietly buy two tickets.

We need to start humiliating people into getting healthy. We've tried all the coddling and cheering methods already. I do feel for the small percentage of obese patients who truly have a medical problem, but seriously, the only problem with the overwhelming majority of fat people is a complete lack of self control.

Any man over 300 lbs or woman over 200 lbs should be on the No Fly List.

I've been toying with this idea: wouldn't it be awesome to have a health insurance company that adjusts your rates based on your body fat percentage? People who are over a certain body fat percentage pay much larger fees, or are simply not accepted into the plan. Perhaps such a thing already exists, but if it doesn't, I would love to see one, because I suspect my insurance money goes to pay for a lot of procedures that could have been avoided with some self control. Kinda like smokers pay higher rates on health and life insurance.

There is a solution so basic that I can't figure out why people are worried about girth and weight measurements. Airline seats have arms that flip back into the seat. Extremely large people must lift the arms to sit. That is the source of the "overflow problem. The problem is very easy to solve with a bright-line rule:

The arms stay down while the passengers are seated (unless both adjacent passengers consent to raising them). If the arms stay down, no one is overflowing into the adjacent seat. If a passenger can't deal with the amount of space, then the passenger buys an adjacent seat.

Problem solved.

Ticket prices should be based on body weight and baggage combined. Just get on the scale with your stuff and get your price. Build a scale into the floor at the ticket counter. Only the ticket agent would see your weight and everything would be nice and discrete.

Or you could add sound effects when they step on the scale. Like "oink!" or "moo!" or bell like in a slot machine s when you win, you could have glitter and balloons fall from the ceiling.

I can't wait to see Expedia and the others have the questions on their booking page:

Before we can process your tickets, in order t assure the comfort and safety of our passengers, Expedia must gather some personal data. Please answer these questions honestly... Are you fat?"

I think the airline was fair in asking him to purchase two seats. If he wanted to save himself the embarrassment, he should probably have just forked out the cash for the extra seat instead of arguing about it at the airport. I'm sure that's what happened, and I'm sure that they wouldn't have measured him if he would have just said, "Ok, here's my credit card."

As for the fat people who say: "It's genetics"' It's glandular"; "It's my metabolism". Bullshit. The law of thermodynamics still applies, no matter what your medical condition is. It's a simple equation of calories in, minus calories out. If the answer is positive you gain weight. If the answer is negative you lose weight. Everyone has the ability to maintain a healthy weight. It's simple, really. Yes, I know food tastes great and that people may "feel hungry", but it's all about self-control. Don't blame other factors for your inability to control your eating and exercise habits.

I don't mind being hated for saying something that needs to be said. Actually I am an equal opportunity offender.

If it's not one group it's another... the gays, the militant feminists, the immigrants, fucking whiny ass minorities, the poor, midgets, gimps, religious extremists, and any other grourp who decides they are offended or discriminated against on a regular basis... SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET OVER YOURSELVES... every one gets offended.



Are you gay?

You're a hetero guy out with two bisexual women and their inexperienced gay male friend. The ladies offer you a threesome if you make out with their friend. What do you do?

Editor Comment: You offer only to fuck the hot girls brains out, because you're a hetero. What is this, stupid question day?

Make the queer run the camera.

Find new friends!

Yea, do anything a girl will ask... that is sure to gain her respect. Don't be a sucker dumbass. Odds are they will back out of the three-some as soon as you close the deal with the gay. And you will be standing there holding your dick looking like an ass.

Sex, including threesomes, should not be for payment of any kind. It you're absolutely desperate for a threesome, try taking out an ad on craigslist.

How vigorously are you going to fuck those chicks when they are laughing at you? Either you are man enough to get a threesome on your own, or you aren't.

Okay, let's ask in a new way.

You're in a bank, guy comes in and takes everyone hostage. He says all dudes suck him or die. You watch 2 suck and be set free. Then one say no and gets a new hole in his head.

It's your turn. What ya going to do?

Get up and walk out. I'm obviously being put on by some lame MTV show. Bank robbers go to banks for money. If they want their cock sucked they'll go to a rest stop like everyone else.

I don't get it?!?!? Either you like cock or you don't ... who cares how hot the consolation prizes are.

To me, it doesn't matter. One woman or two, I'll still only last 20 seconds.

If you are even considering this, you are not straight.

Homosexual behavior is a sin. This is made perfectly clear in the Bible. A man should be far more worried about his relationship with Jesus than he is about a threesome with promiscuous lesbians.

Jesus hates homosexuals. I suspect he only hates homosexual males. Lesbians and bi-chicks are ok with the savior!

If you want to experiment with homosexuality, have at it, I guess. But, you could just watch the movie Top Gun, which is pretty much the same thing.

The obvious answer is hit it with the two chicks first then back out of the gheyness. What are they going to do? Sue you for breach of cont?

/had threesomes
//never had to beg like a sucker



Teacher charged with sexual misconduct

A Chaska high school teacher accused of having sex with a student made her first court appearance on Friday.

Julia Ozirski Lund has been a language teacher at Chaska High School for two years, but what happened with a 17-year old didn't involve teaching.

"In any situation people are perceived to be an authority - a teacher, a coach, a boss on the job has to be aware of that. It carries with it special responsibilities and there are certainly boundaries, " said Chaska High School Principal Paul McMahan.

But 28-year-old Lund is accused of crossing that boundary with a 17-year-old student. She is charged with criminal sexual conduct in the third degree.

School officials say they found out about the alleged relationship after the student came forward. He spoke to a staff member and then to the police.

Editor Comment: First time I ever saw the word complaint and oral sex in the same sentence.

This isn't even a crime in my state.

Could we please stop referring to the 17-year-old boy getting a knob polishing from a reasonable good looking teacher as a "victim". Please, call him what he is - LUCKY.

When I was 17, there were at least two or three teachers in my high school I would love to have been victimized by.

I don't understand why he ratted her out. What an utter, total and complete wankshaft.

Musta been a lousy bj.

She looks homely. I would hit it. But I wouldn't step into court and admit it.

What the hell is wrong with kids today?

Dear 17-year old "victim"

You are not a victim. You are lucky.
Do not "come forward" when you get lucky in this way.
You will soon be married and not get lucky in this way again.
You may not get lucky in this way again anyway.
Other hot teachers will be afraid you will "tell" on them.

Somewhere out there, there is a 17-year-old boy nailing a hot teacher who has the brains to keep his mouth shut and enjoy it.



Star Wars Holiday Special

Watch the entire Star Wars Holiday Special. Happy Life Day on YouTube.

The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was broadcast in its entirety in the United States only once on Friday, November 17, 1978 on CBS-TV from 8pm to 10 pm.

George Lucas's involvement in the special's production was limited, and he was unhappy with the results. It has never been reaired or officially released on video, but has been widely bootlegged by fans.

For the most part, The Star Wars Holiday Special has received a large amount of criticism, both from Star Wars fans and the general public.

George Lucas himself has rarely commented on or even acknowledged its existence.

Editor Comment: I vaguely remember watching this when it aired in '78 as a kid (6 years old) but was never sure it was actually real or if I had dreamt the whole thing. Even as a kid I had some realization that it was a bit bizarre and disturbing... I've managed to repress most of it.

Ok, I made it all the way through part one, but I think that's it for me.

Terrible... Just terrible, wtf did I just watch? wtf

... SERIOUSLY WTF WAS THAT??!!

Man, I don't know if I can watch that again...

How mortifyingly embarrassing for the whole human race.

Carrie Fisher singing is the most painful thing I have ever witnessed.

Lumpy or whatever his name is looks like Gary Coleman.

Would it be wrong to flag it as inappropriate?

I think Charles Darwin went on vacation when George Lucas gave the go ahead to make this steaming pile of crap.

"If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it." - George Lucas

Hopefully Lucas will reissue this with enhanced special effects.

Too bad the video will be removed by Lucas's Borg-like lawyers.

It can be downloaded P2P via limewire, just in case you have 700 MB of drive space (and two hours of your life) to waste.



Why our loved ones hate our gifts

Lerouge and Warlop set up a series of experiments in which couples, who had been together more than two years on average, tried to predict which kinds of bedroom furniture the other would like.

In the experiments, half the couples knew they were trying to predict their partner's preferences. The other half tried to predict the preferences of someone they were told was a stranger, buy who was, in fact, their partner.

People tended to be better at predicting another person's preferences when they thought that person was a stranger. This, the researchers suggest, is because when predicting what a stranger would like, we are forced to "rely on general and stereotypical information about the stranger, which can be quite diagnostic."

But when predicting what our loved ones like, we "ignore this valid information" and rely on more intimate information "that is often found to be invalid or irrelevant when predicting product attitudes."

Editor Comment: God, is it Christmas again already? I just finished putting the crap I got last year on ebay.

I wish I could be a hard hitting journalist like the author of TFA so I could get paid for typing out whatever random shit that comes into my head.

Just give cash.

My family uses this thing called a "list." You see we write down what we want, and give it to the people who plan to buy us gifts so they can choose from the "list." I know it sounds crazy, but it really works!

But no one in my family sticks to "the list". Especially my girlfriends mom. But I have to accept her presents graciously because I feel guilty that I have hot dirty monkey sex with her daughter.

Nobody in my family has ever complained about the giant photos of my genitals I mail to them every year.

Condoms and gift certificates to the local strip club... gifts every one can enjoy.

This year I'm buying a whole bunch of small boxes of chocolates and cards. Anyone who asks, I'm just going to suggest they get me a nice small box of chocolates too, because that's what I'm giving, that's all I can afford, and all they should spend on me anyway. The people who want to spend money on me? That's a lovely gesture. Now put that money that would have gone on a (thoughtless) gift into paying off your credit card, because I never wanted you to go into debt getting me something useless in the first place.

You know, every year it seems like I feel more and more like Charlie Brown in the Peanuts Christmas special.

I usually tell everybody whom I know to never get me anything for Christmas. If they really want to give me something, I remind them that cash never goes out of style.

It's not that I don't appreciate the gifts, but I feel that I don't really need more stuff - I'm pretty satisified in the stuff department. Of course, a man can always use more cash, especially with my expensive beer habit.

Just buy me alcohol, because even if I don't drink it, there is some chick out there that will.



Honesty test

100 wallets dropped in front of hidden cameras to test honesty.

Each of the 100 wallets contained $2.10 in real money, a fake $50.00 gift certificate, some miscellaneous items and a clearly written ID card identifying the lost wallet's rightful owner. We were curious as to how honest people would be and wanted to see how different races, genders and age groups would compare to each other.

Editor Comment: Interesting study. Women more honest than men. Olds more honest than young. But my complaint would be that the small amount of money involved doesn't really present much temptation to reasonably honest people to become dishonest.

The true question should be "How much money would it take for you to be dishonest?"

I wonder if the fat were more likely than the skinny to take the money with their chubby little fingers and buy a bag of Cheese Doodles.

Q: Who was more honest - black people or white people?
A: White People

No Shit!

This just proves that young black males have a better understanding of the way society works. They know that if someone is stupid enough to lose their wallet, it is only right that you keep it in order to teach them a lesson. How else are they gonna learn?

And to think that I go through all the trouble of mugging people for their wallets when I could have just gone to this city and made myself a small fortune.

True story... Several years ago I was dating this woman and while on a date, I found a $100 bill outside a restaurant we ate at. I was psyched and she told me, rather sternly, that I should inform the management.

I was like, "Are you for real? Seriously?" and she was emphatic. I said "OK".

I gave her the keys to the car and told her I'd be there in a few minutes, went back inside, ordered a drink, went back to the car and we went home.

Kept the money
Didn't tell nobody
Still got laid
Broke up with her a week later because she was a total nutbag
Happy ending

The moral of the story is ... Keep track of your shit!

I was walking in the woods and found a wallet under some brush. In it were three credit cards, a blockbuster movie membership, driver's license, and insurance card. No money.

I actually took the wallet to the address on the driver's license and dropped it off. 2 days later I get a call from the wallet's owner demanding that I return the two hundred dollars that was missing from it or he'll call the cops on me.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Fuck honesty, you lose your shit it's mine. Finders keepers. You're gonna die in the end anyways - honesty aint gonna get you anywhere.