December 2007
33 posts
Ken Jennings Flies the Friendly Skies →
How Circuit City Committed Suicide →
From Prospect.org’s Beat the Press, summarizing this piece from the Washington Post:
The basic story is that last March, the wise men who run Circuit City came up with the brilliant idea of laying off their more senior salespeople, who get $14-$15 an hour, and replacing them with new hires who get around $9 an hour. It turns out that this move was not very good for business. One of the...
50 Most Loathsome People in America →
What, no Belichick?
Please Let This Happen →
“[When] the first movies were shown publicly, one presented a scene at the...”
– Bob Seidensticker, via Ebert’s Answer Man
The Xmas Spirit →
Best Xmas card ever: [see the large version here] I really like xmas. I like shopping for gifts. I like tacky decorations. I like knowing that a good portion of the world’s population is doing the exact same thing, listening to the exact same music, and feeling the exact same nostalgia as I am. I like that so many people can keep an idea like Santa Claus afloat for so many years without
Top Ten Commenting Memes of 2007 That Should Die... →
Parsippany playgrounds closed due to arsenic →
Playgrounds at the Northvail, Troy Hills and Littleton schools have been closed as a result of tests that found an unacceptable level of arsenic in wood chip ground cover and soil, the Board of Education announced today.
Teacher tells girl she'll get an 'A' if she... →
Unfortunately for the the 29-year-old guy, the girl’s recorder was running when he tried to close the deal. (St. Petersburg Times)
Funeral mix-up: Body already in plot where man was... →
An Ocean County man dying of cancer bought an $800 cemetery plot, but when his family tried to bury him they realized it was already occupied. Auto-body-shop owner Garry Meredith died of bone cancer at 64 last week. During his…
Rome's Colosseum lit up to mark NJ abolishing... →
AP PhotoRome’s ancient Colosseum is lit up to celebrate the fifth edition of the international day against the death penalty on Nov. 30, 2006. The writing projected on the monument says: “No Justice Without Life.” ROME — The city of…
Man wrestles deer to the ground in his living room →
Pete Castle’s wife is happy the doe didn’t do more damage. “Pete saved a lot of the home from being ruined,” she says. “I had to clean blood off my computer, the printer, the coffee tabe. My couch is ruined.” Frederick News Post)
Judd Apatow Vows to Include Wangs in Every Film He... →
Photo: Getty Images
Good news for Judd Apatow fans who felt that the director-producer’s Superbad didn’t include enough penises in its closing-credits penis montage: Apatow, annoyed at a test audience’s response to a wang in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, has solemnly vowed to include a penis in every film he makes. “America fears the penis,” Apatow says,...
Corzine ends death penalty in NJ →
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed a law today making New Jersey the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty.
Esca + baseball = Good →
Rome to light Colosseum when NJ bans death penalty →
Ancient arena is symbol of fight against capital punishment
Weekend Project →
Holiday goat demand in NJ surges →
Charles Seugling’s 90-year-old family business, a slaughterhouse in Pequannock, New Jersey, is hustling to supply a holiday “madhouse” of demand for goat.
WatchClooney was better on Facts of Life
Senate approves abolishing death penalty →
The New Jersey Senate today approved making the state the first to abolish the death penalty since it was reallowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, pushing toward law a measure that would spare the life of the sex offender whose crimes sparked Megan’s Law.
This Joke Was Funnier Five Minutes Ago →
Television: A Sitcom Battles Its Own Prehistory →
The critics have spoken, loudly. Now the creators of “Cavemen” are hoping they don’t have the final word.
WatchThis is exactly how I lost my virginity.
Parsippany hearing tomorrow on Hindu temple →
PARSIPPANY — The board of adjustment will hold a second hearing Wednesday night regarding a proposed Hindu temple on East Halsey Road, board chairman Robert Iracane said today.
NJ Senate committee votes to abolish death penalty →
A Senate committee voted this afternoon in favor of abolishing New Jersey’s 25-year-old, never-used death penalty and replacing it with life imprisonment without parole. The 8-4 vote by the Senate Budget Committee clears the bill for a vote by the…
Drunk leads cops on chase in stolen Krispy Kreme... →
A prosecutor admits it might sound funny because “what you have is two different police agencies chasing the defendant in a stolen Krispy Kreme donut truck with donuts flying out of the back of the truck.” But he adds that the episode,”really is a danger to the community given the great recklessness of this stunt.” (Madison.com)