Commercial rant #2 - McDonald’s/gofbot.com

Watch me be much too lazy to copy the formatting from the first one of these I did! Hopefully I’ll get close enough. I had such lofty plans to make them all look the same… oh well.
I have a vile and thorough hatred for all of McDonald’s advertising, particularly since they adopted the obnoxious “I’m […]

Commercial Rant #1 - Pizza Hut pizza pouch things

I’m going to start whining in this space about commercials that bother me, if that’s ok with everyone. I’ll try to stay away from particularly irritating local commercials unless I can obtain video of them.
Today’s ad: Pizza Hut Hot-and-Ready Pizza Pocket Things (I frankly can’t be bothered to look up their actual name)
The gist of […]

Blue Angels F-18 crashes during SC Air Show: Pilot dies

BEAUFORT, S.C. — A Navy Blue Angel jet crashed during an air show Saturday, plunging into a neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot.
Witnesses said the planes were flying in formation during the show at the Marine Corps Air Station at about 4 p.m. and one dropped below the trees and crashed, […]

Hateful couch label spews racial epithet

A Brampton woman who purchased dark brown leather sofa, loveseat and chair from a Mississauga furnitute store said she was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.” Doris Moore said said it was actually her seven-year-old daughter who first noticed the shocking label on the chocolate-coloured sofa set that she and […]

Another three letter domain name bites the dust - wtf.com

APRIL FOOLS!
Well, I guess nothing lasts forever… Though truth is, I never through this would happen quite so soon.
A site I used to be staff on, wtf.com, has recently sold it’s domain name to everyone’s favorite evil search giant, Google.com and the sale closed more than 3 weeks ago.
While the old site, a nice place […]

Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit

DETROIT (Reuters) - With bidding stalled on some of the least desirable residences in Detroit’s collapsing housing market, even the fast-talking auctioneer was feeling the stress. 
“Folks, the ground underneath the house goes with it. You do know that, right?” he offered.
After selling house after house in the Motor City for less than the $29,000 it […]

AP reports on AP not reporting on Paris Hilton

NEW YORK (AP) — So you may have heard: Paris Hilton was ticketed the other day for driving with a suspended license.
Not huge news, even by celebrity-gossip standards. Here at The Associated Press, we put out an initial item of some 300 words. But it actually meant more to us than that.
It meant the […]

“Hoohaa Monologues” sign drawing attention in Florida

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. — A modified marquee in Atlantic Beach has been drawing some attention. “Hoohaa” replaced a word in the title of a play after a driver complained about finding the previous wording offensive.
The marquis for Atlantic Theaters advertises a number of plays including, the Masquerade Ball, Band Jam, and now The Hoohaa Monologues.
Some […]

Captain Obvious: Abuse leads to depression

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) — Physically abused and neglected children are much more likely to grow into severely depressed adults, a finding that researchers said on Monday points to an urgent need to test abused children for depression early on.
Physically abused children have a 59 percent increased risk of lifetime major depression compared with similar children […]

Preschoolers are fat

WASHINGTON (AP) — Far too many kids are fat by preschool, and Hispanic youngsters are most at risk, says new research that’s among the first to focus on children growing up in poverty.
The study couldn’t explain the disparity: White, black and Hispanic youngsters alike watched a lot of TV, and researchers spotted no other huge […]