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Plan to Build Home on Top of Historic Heard Cemetery in Sandy Springs, Ga., Enrages Neighbors {AOL Real Estate}
Oct 7th 2012 4:22PM The town of Sandy Springs should revoke the sale, give Mills his $1.00 back, and tell him to go pound sand. Leave it to an attorney to act as he is acting.
The Word 'Retard': Stop Using It {ParentDish}
Mar 6th 2011 9:39PM Alicia, it's much more than that people who are cognitively challenged (we used to call them simply "stupid" or "feeble-minded") respond to stimuli differently. It is that often they don't have the cognitive wattage to process what they are experiencing in ways that support their getting from point A to point B without problems. And yes, this lack of cognitive wattage is a defect, although those under the spell of political correctness might not want to call it that. I, too, don't like the use of the words "retarded" or "retard," but not for the same reasons that most people don't. I don't like these words because they suggest that, in time, these folks may "catch up," which is just not going to happen. Of course, there are degrees of stupidity or of feeble-mindedness, hence the need for evaluations of functional ability, to determine what activities of daily living (caring for oneself, holding some kind of a job, etc.) a cognitively challenged person can handle. This is in the service of giving them the opportunity to perform to the best of their ability. But it serves no purpose to pretend that there's nothing wrong with these people, because there is.
Downhill bike race in Chile is insanity at its finest {Gadling}
Mar 6th 2011 2:48PM There's a mighty thin line between "awesome" and "bad-ass," on the one hand, and, on the other, "fucking crazy." I'm with Frank on this one, and leave it to all of those who think that needlessly exposing oneself to extreme risk makes one more of a man, to emulate the fool in this bike-race video clip.
Andrew Luck Clearly Isn't Thinking Like a Stanford Man {Fanhouse NCAA Football Blog}
Jan 7th 2011 1:06PM The writer of this piece has his head up his ass. If Andrew Luck is a hot NFL prospect now, why won't he be a hot NFL prospect when he graduates, with his architecture degree, in 2012? Football is nothing but a game, and the function of a university is not to turn out star football players, but educated graduates, something Luck, unlike meathead David Whitley, seems to understand. Whitley, it's not always about the money.
Why I Got the Word 'Open' Tattooed on My Back {Lemondrop}
Oct 1st 2010 11:45PM Sorry, gang, but I have never been able to overcome my gut feeling that tattoos, no matter how artistically done -- and Heaven forefend that they should be of the jailhouse variety -- are fundamentally tacky, and that many of those who get them live to regret having done so.
Human-Powered Ornithopter Would Make da Vinci Proud {Translogic}
Sep 29th 2010 3:57PM Paul, 1997 is almost 30 years ago?
Mad Men: 5 Black Ads That Drive Us Nuts {theBVX.com}
Jun 21st 2010 6:03AM I am more embarrassed for "my people" by the poor grammar and spelling, and the lack of logical coherence, evinced in many of these postings, than I am by any of the television commercials that some of my fellow Aframs find offensively demeaning.
Joni Mitchell Calls Bob Dylan 'A Fake and a Plagiarist' {Spinner}
Apr 24th 2010 4:37PM He didn't copy someone who could really sing, because that would mean really singing, and he couldn't, and can't, really sing, so he croaks and rasps, like the man, Woody Guthrie, from whom, along with his vocal delivery style, he stole his folky, vagabond, anti-establishment, International Workers of the World persona. This is not to say that Bob Dylan (nee Zimmerman), who has gone through a couple of metamorphoses since his early days at the Gaslight Cafe in NYC's Greenwich Village, doesn't deserve the success he has attained, but maybe it puts that success in some perspective. Joni Mitchell's take on him might be a bit harsh, but it isn't that far off the mark.
Is Kevin Smith Too Fat to Fly? (VIDEO) {Inside TV Blog}
Feb 16th 2010 2:13PM Vendors of various services reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. I don't know that Southwest Airlines has waived this right. As for those who would like to claim that discrimination against the disgustingly fat is the same as discrimination against, say, Blacks or gays, I point out that being Black or gay is not a personal choice, and, while I realize that some fat folks may be fat because of a medical problem, the great majority, like me, are fat because they are self-indulgent and never met a foodstuff they didn't like.
Target to end Amazon deal {Daily Finance}
Aug 16th 2009 9:51PM Sounds like another situation in which someone has ignored the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it." I concur with the assessment that this move by Target will prove to be a business disaster for them.
