Yep, that's right, we're all going to die. You know how I know that? Everything is falling apart...
Yep, that's right, there are recalls, product failures, oil spills, and well, that's the good news. Think I'm kidding? Just listen to Lewis Black, from his segment on The Daily Show.
A few weeks back, we wrote about Chasing Amy Director, Kevin Smith was kicked off a Southwest Airline flight because he was too fat. Well, just to prove that Southwest learned its lesson (only, not really).
Now we're hearing the airline recently removed a 5-foot-4, 110-pound Sacramento-area woman from a plane so a hefty passenger could have an extra seat.
The incident happened last week on an early-evening Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Sacramento.
The local woman was flying standby, paid full fare for the last available seat, got on board, stowed her bags and sat down – only to be told she would have to deplane immediately.
The reason?
A late-arriving passenger required two seats because of her girth.
Yeah, sounds a little bit like overcompensation to us too.
The Perfessor
...well, except perhaps the people who use his name to denounce others to achieve their own personal, agenda.
A little background; Fred Phelps, and the asshats who follow him as members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church apparently hates gays so much that they regularly protest at the funerals of servicemen and women who have been killed overseas (defending the right for these maroons to be douche-bags). Classy, right?
Well, they recently got it in their heads to protest gays at the International Comicbook convention in San Diego, the biggest comic con in the world. Well, unbeknownst to these misguided folks they had no idea what they were getting themselves into. You see they were going up against folks who think nothing about dressing up as robots, magical anime girls, Trekkies, Jedi and, well furries, than then walk around in public.
Needless to say, the good folks of San Diego's Comic-Con were well prepared for the arrival of the Westbror protesters with their own special brand of superhumans where they counter-shouted "WHAT DO WE WANT?" "GAY SEX!" "WHEN DO WE WANT IT?" "NOW!" while brandishing ironic (and some very sincere) signs.
The Westboro protesters were not only not prepared, but simply didn't know what hit them.
Yeah, that's right, most of the times these yabos show up, encounters with them degenerate into an angry shouting match, which just gives more air time, and (to their way of thinking) bolsters their cause.
Hopefully this encounter will serve as a model for future encounters (assuming that the Westboro clowns can ever recover what little "dignity" they might have left), and if they ever show up somewhere again, they will be likewise humiliated.
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So, as I understand Seppuku, it is the Japanese form of ritual suicide by disembowelment. it is part of the samurai honor code that was used voluntarily by samurai warriors so that they could die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies. It was alternately used as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that have brought shame to them.
Now I know what you are going to say, that this is perhaps a bit barbaric, but, well, given the massive social, economic, and environmental screw-up that BP did in the gulf, I'm not so sure that it wouldn't be such a bad idea to bring it back as a form of deterrent to prevent future CEOs from being so dismissive about their own responsibilities.
Still, since this is Cuppa, well, we still need to mock someone, and well, we have no compunctions about who we "borrow" from to do it. Hence the following (very, very funny) Lady Ga Ga remix...
Yeah, that was pretty funny, and if you weren't a Lady Ga Ga fan before, this should make you one, eh?
Oh yeah, and then there is this:
The Perfessor
We are — for better or worse — a nation of immigrants. No, it's true, unless you are a Native American (and probably not even then, to be sure), you or your ancestors came to this country from someplace else (either willing or forced), so I'm constantly baffled by folks who want to "send 'em back to where they came from."
It is for that reason that the Arizona law (and measures like it), scare me. Then, there is this...
Eduardo Caraballo, a U.S. citizen born in the United States, was detained for over three days on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.
Despite presenting identifying documents and even his birth certificate, Caraballo was held by federal immigration authorities over the weekend and threatened with deportation, according to an NBC Chicago report. He was only released when his congressman, Luis Gutierrez -- a vocal supporter of immigration reform -- intervened on his behalf.
I need someone to explain to me why this is a good idea. Please speak slowly and use small words.
The Perfessor
Back in 1995, in San Diego California a man went on a rampage through the city streets driving (get this) a tank he stole from a nearby national guard armory. Here's the video.
And you thought that this stuff only happened on TV.
The Perfessor