Author Archives: Mickey

Whose Lane is It Anyway?

    Here’s a fun little tidbit I found in the news. Our government is not only selling us down the river, they’re selling our toll roads and bridges to foreign companies.    This even hits close to home: Few … Continue reading

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Advertisement

    Owing to the high cost of maintaining a webspace on this series of tubes known as the Internets (what with all the movie downloads and e-mails getting all tangled up together), it has become necessary to start selling … Continue reading

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Porch’d

    Yesterday, right before I left for work, I caught a news story about an old man who’d accidentally crashed his car into someone’s porch.  It had happened in Dearborn and I waited to find out on what street … Continue reading

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Ooo, Aaah!  (2006)

    The tradition continues.    Here’s the video of this year’s Fourth of July fireworks, from Trenton MI.    “A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the … Continue reading

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Ultimate MS Painting

    Evidently this was originally published in February. but I only found out about it today through Digg.com. It’s the ultimate MS Paint-ing, an impressive piece of artwork done entirely in MS Paint. The artist also gives a commentary … Continue reading

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War on Stupidity

    If the President can wage a war on an abstract noun*, then why can’t I?    Apparently our teachers are too busy leaving no child behind than actually teaching those children simple English. How else to explain the … Continue reading

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Drive-Thru of Death

    From New Scientist:     Eating a diet consisting largely of fast food could cause your waistline to bulge more than eating the same amount of fat from healthier sources.    Monkeys fed a diet rich in trans-fats … Continue reading

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Balls

    According to the Des Moines Register: [City Engineer Jeb] Brewer swears that consultants who work for the city did not design the $5.7 million detention basin to resemble anything, but recent e-mails to City Hall from area residents … Continue reading

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By the Sound of Their Teeth

    Did you ever notice whenever someone eats in a movie you can hear the fork scrape against their teeth? I know this is a fairly specific rant in the grand scheme of movie watching, but it really annoys … Continue reading

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Fuck Me!

    Fuck yeah! The fuckers at the Parents Television Council got the House of Representatives to fucking agree to raise the FCC’s fines on fucking television indecency — and they fucking raised those fines tenfold! Holy fuck! Can you … Continue reading

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