Okay, I’ll admit it. I am completely and perversely fascinated with the whole Mel Gibson / Oksana Grigorieva drama. If you haven’t been following it, here’s a brief summary: Mel left his wife of godknowshowmany years for Oksana, they had a baby together, later they split up. Oksana first claimed Mel hit her in the face, then “mysteriously”, several recorded phone calls featuring Mel and Oksana were released.
In these recordings, Mel is huffing and puffing, shouting and swearing, being racist/sexist, and basically just acting nuttier than a sack of weasels. Which is why I find the recordings so fascinating. That is, pitiful at the same time. Mel is clearly in severe psychological distress and having an emotional meltdown, yet we’re all laughing about it. Well, maybe if he weren’t such a bigoted asshole, I’d actually feel sorry for him.
My favorite quote:
Ok, I’ll burn the goddamn house up, but blow me first!
Yeah, there’s a man who’s got his priorities straight. So now the internet is running rampant with memes.
(Tehran) Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, an Iranian mother of two, was convicted of adultery in 2006 - not by evidence, but by the decision of three out of five judges. The hearing was in Farsi, even though Ashtiani speaks Turkish. She had confessed to the “crime” after being lashed 99 times. (I think I would confess to anything short of killing JFK after that.)
Her sentence? She will be buried up to her chest and stoned with stones not large enough to kill her immediately, but large enough to cause her great pain for long enough until she does finally die.
Brought to you by the lovely Iranian government. I’m surprised they don’t still live in caves.
The newspaper quoted defense lawyer Peter Young as telling the court when Sneddon found he could not open the doors, ”he had nothing else to do at that point, so he had another beer.”
So here’s some douchebag named Adam Hood (I had no idea who he was until now - apparently some *cough* singer) telling us he is a “converted gay man”. While sounding and acting faggier than a handbag full of sparkly rainbows and wearing a scarf with shiny gold threads. Um…ookay…
Here’s what I don’t get. Well, there are many things I don’t get. But anyhow. Christians believe that God created the human body, and generally just about everything. Homosexuals enjoy sex with a same-sex partner. So if God created their bodies, isn’t he logically responsible for this enjoyment? Why would God make something enjoyable that he is against?
Republican congressman Joe Barton actually apologized to BP for the US government holding them responsible for the largest offshore spill in U.S. history because they simply chose profit over safety.
Barton: I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation could be subject to what I would characterize as a shakedown. In this case a $20 billion shakedown.
After realizing that he was making himself seriously unpopular, however, he… apologized for the apology. People (his party, Joe Biden, and others) had to point this out to him, of course, because the idiot is so out of touch he couldn’t find his ass with both hands and even then his head might get in the way.
This example of geolocational fail is from an iPhone app called Sex Offender Search, which, thanks to Megan’s Law, allows you (quasi-legal) mobile access to a database of sex offenders.
Due to the unintentional hilarity of the GPS notification above, the makers of the app, LogSat Software, might want to consider hiring a copywriter. Or perhaps a lawyer.