Okay.  Today is gripe time for me.    I opened my cable bill from Charter Communications,  and was a bit alarmed, because once again it appears that they have raised their rates for basic cable.    I am now paying sixty dollars a month for basic cable.    For this sixty dollars,  I get this.    About twenty watchable channels,  about twenty channels that are in languages other than English,  and about twenty channels that just flat out suck. Read Full Story

Fox News Channel and CNN relayed the bulletin this afternoon: Tiger Woods, 33, was seriously injured in a car crash at 2:25 a.m. this morning at his Isleworth home. The extent of his injuries wasn’t clear, news channels explained. But he had been released from the hospital after being treated for facial injuries, Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn told CNN. “It seems like a very strange accident that occurred,” Bruhn said. “Basically it was facial lacerations, and as I’... Read Full Story

Geez.   President Barack O’Blunder strikes again.     It was leaked to the media late last night after two days of reporting,  that the party crashing couple that managed to get into were cleared by the White House to be there in the first place.    A White House official confirmed to FoxNews.com on Friday that Michaele and Tareq Salahi were not invited to Tuesday’s star-studded event. Read Full Story

Check this out. Yves Rossy jumps out of an airplane with a wing and four jet engines on his back with the intention of flying for fifteen minutes from 4 miles across the the Strait of Gibraltar from Tangier in Morocco to Atlanterra in southern Spain, at a speed of almost 140mph. He ended up ditching into the ocean after his engines petered out. JD Read Full Story

I have asked this before and I shall ask again.  Why is it only offensive to photoshop black people into looking like monkeys?   I don’t get it.   There are a a ton of GW Bush being made to look like a monkey and Google never apologized for putting them up on their images search.   Here is a link to Google images where I found this photo by searching GW Bush Monkey. Read Full Story

Firefighters continued to battle a wind-whipped wildfire in the hills just east of Anaheim Hills tonight as the California Highway Patrol shut down the 241 toll road near the Windy Ridge exit, according to authorities. The fire erupted on the eastern side of the tollway, separating it from tracts of homes on the western side. Crews were hoping to keep the fire confined to the east side, fire officials said. Ground crews were trying to lay hose lines to beat back the flames on its flanks. Lan... Read Full Story

While JD has been getting the site back up and operating efficiently, I have been sitting back stewing as usual over things that make no sense and generally piss me off, along with remodeling the house and entertaining some house guests. Read Full Story

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That) Read Full Story

The Almighty Google. I remember using the old college bulletin board systems around the country on my old 2400 kb modem. funny now, but back then it only took about ten minutes to download a 100,000 kilobyte file. A person could get up, make a sandwich, call some friends and engage in some chit chat, and come back just as the download had finished. Read Full Story

I heard this on the Howard Stern Show about ten years ago and it seems applicable today,  with the senate preparing to vote for health care legislation.   Taxes are at an all time high,  unemployment is through the roof and the economy is in shambles,  but the senate is voting on health care.    And whiteys on the moon.    JD Read Full Story