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Plan ahead
posted on Mar 7 2011

…no pun intended.






The best license plates from our cross-country trip
posted on Dec 22 2010

It’s always smart to text and drive, even though it’s stupid. What’s even more stupid is trying to read, decipher, and record the greatest and/or most confusing license plates through 11 states.

Here are the ones I managed to record into my iPhone while swerving through lanes.

ANGUSBF

AP REAL

O VICKI

TIKE

DRPEPPR

GO-BYE

AP REAL

SKISHING

CJORUN

SWOLE

IM POWER

UWNABME

7WATER7

3BLONDS

NOMOTAX

IQPD4ME

GRLYGLS

…and, last but not least, though certainly the most depressing…

RIPGENE






There must be absolutely nothing to do in Ruston, Louisiana.
posted on Sep 25 2010

I open the live video feed of the Southern Miss-Louisiana Tech game, and this is the first thing I saw.






…and everyone cringes.
posted on Sep 5 2010

Ever read of an accident and think, “How stupid could those people be?” Me too. All the time.

But then there are those accidents that make you think, “Yeah… that could have happened to me a hundred times over my life.” This is one of those accidents:

Three people died Friday night in a car crash on Whidbey Island after the passenger of a Chevrolet Blazer SUV grabbed the steering wheel so the driver could remove her sweater, according to the Washington State Patrol.






Filed under: Things that could have happened in Jasper, but actually happened in Seattle.
posted on Aug 23 2010

Article: Bride gets a DUI on her wedding day

A Trooper noticed the woman driving erratically on I-405 and speeding at over 90 mph Saturday at about 6 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 21 near Northeast Eighth Street in Bellevue. She registered a blood-alcohol level about twice the legal limit.

The trooper processed the woman and then let her take a cab home in time to make it to her wedding in Burien.






File this under “Things I Wish That Weren’t True”
posted on Aug 10 2010

Like Jersey Shore? You’ll love Redneck Riviera.

I’m not joking. From the DME:

Birmingham native Jodi Redmond is casting for a new reality show tentatively titled “Redneck Riviera.” The tagline for the “Jersey Shore” spin-off is “This ain’t no regular shore.”

[...]

“I do love the area. It’s not about exploitation. I just want to create a microcosm of the South in a house on the redneck riviera,” Redmond said.

That’s like saying, “I do love my sister. It’s not about exploitation. I just want her to be the best prostitute she can be.”

Also, from AL.com who has now picked up on the story:

Any of this sound familiar: “Do you drink sweet tea, talk endlessly about Nascar, sport a rebel flag (on your bikini or jacked-up pickup truck), listen to loud country and/or Southern rock, or enjoy walking around shirtless or in daisy dukes?”

This, along with Crimson Tide fans in general, are just what The South needs. (That’s a joke, of course.)






Who Dat say dem Saint can’t spell?
posted on Jul 17 2010

[via Deadspin]






Baby Killer Video
posted on Mar 21 2010

No way this was cool. Doesn’t matter where you stand politically.






Pickle Surprise
posted on Mar 18 2010

This video freaks Chelsea the eff out.






About the “incredibly creepy homeless woman”
posted on Feb 1 2010

Over the weekend I sent a mobile upload of our experience at Portland’s famous VooDoo Donuts. We hoped in line to find a stoned and/or drunk homeless woman approach me, staring, standing with her mouth open, just a couple of feet away. I asked her if she needed anything… if everything was alright. That’s when she proceeded to ask me (multiple times) how my “first time” was. Seriously. And no, she wasn’t talking about my first ‘donut hole’. [Insert joke here.]

After asking me 10+ times, she went down the line asking others the same question. I was the only one who talked to her. I genuinely tried to engage her in conversation, even asking if I could buy her breakfast. The fact that I talked to he is probably the reason she came back to me and stood starting, just like this, for the better part of 20 minutes.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and offer it to a homeless person. Should that homeless person deny your lemonade and ask you about your first time experiencing sexual intercourse, take a video of them and put it on the Internet. They’ll never see it anyway.

So there I stood, cellphone by my hip, hoping to catch a clip of her creepiness in action. I was quite pleased with the result.

When we got to the front of the line the cashier told us that the people in front of us had already put $10 towards our donuts. They snuck out before we got to thank them.






Joy Behar has a special place in Hell.
posted on Jan 28 2010






“Bomb Detectors” used in Iraq by U.S. and Iraqi governments were fake
posted on Jan 24 2010

$85 million in lost cash, and immeasurable in loss of life. Disgusting.






Let That Be A Lesson To You
posted on Oct 6 2009

Girl, 6, dies in crash after mom reaches for cellphone

The car left the road and rolled down an embankment Monday, killing her 6-year-old daughter.

The sheriff’s office says the girl was not properly restrained in a child seat. She was partially ejected and died at the scene.






On My iPod
posted on Oct 5 2009

…just kidding.






John Edwards’ Aide Might Be The Worst Person In The World (Behind John Edwards, That Is)
posted on Sep 30 2009

O…M…G…

When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply.

When Edwards and his family arrived home, Young had made sure there was fresh milk in the fridge, a neatly trimmed lawn and neatly folded dry cleaning. When he arranged their vacation to Disney World in 2004, he naturally booked himself a ticket. And when Edwards’s mistress became pregnant, Young — at the cost of his reputation, his wife’s and his minister father’s — stepped forward to say the child was his.






Kanye West on Patrick Swayze’s Death
posted on Sep 15 2009






Homeless Sign
posted on Jul 22 2009

…being held by a guy outside of church Sunday night. Wrong crowd, dude.

Blowup girlfriend popped.
Need money to patch the whole.






Ugh.
posted on Jul 12 2009

The two adult children of former Vancouver police Officer Clyde Ray Spencer, who spent nearly 20 years in prison after being convicted of molesting them, testified in court Friday that the abuse never happened.






B.O.
posted on Jun 23 2009

Thanks Barack. A 55-minute speech did not contain one of the following words:

Iraq
Afghanistan
Korea
Pakistan
soldiers
surge
war
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marines






Hmmmm…
posted on Jun 13 2009

Can you tell what’s wrong with this status update?

night of the comet movie