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Festivus for the rest of us...even in jail
Extending the traditional Festivus ritual, "The airing of the grievances," beyond December 23rd is just one example of my piety and personal reverence for the holiday created by Seinfeld's Frank Costanza. As Frank would say, "I got a lot of problems with you people."
But one Orange County inmate has taken it a step further, citing belief in Festivus to make his life in jail just a little bit better. Perhaps at the taxpayers expense.
According to Kimberly Edds at the Orange County Register, inmate Malcom King - a body builder and convicted felon - was sick and tired of the unhealthy, salami-laden jail meals and he saw only one way out: have his lawyer tell the court he was a religious follower of Frank Costanza's teachings and that this required a more expensive double portion of the jail's kosher meal.
The judge granted the meal request: another Festivus miracle.
Kings attorney via OCR:
Judge [Derek G.] Johnson pulled King's lawyer and the prosecutor aside and said he needed a religion to put down on the order to make it stick, explained Thiagarajah.
"I said Festivus," said Thiagarajah. The order was granted - three non-salami meals a day.
County Counsel researched Festivus, arguing the holiday was the creation of writer Dan O'Keefe to celebrate his first date with his wife in 1966. The holiday was introduced to the world by his son Daniel, a screenwriter for Seinfeld, who wrote it into the show. (read more)
Inmate King has been released to ICE custody, where the Feds probably take a much dimmer view on citing sitcom-based pseudo-religion beliefs in court. And a six foot aluminum pole is definitely contraband.
| December 16 2010 at 04:35 AM
Gitcha Goomsba Up: Best low-budget regional tourism ad ever
Producers of lowish-budget regional tourism ads, you have been put on notice: there is a new gold standard and his name is Woody Goomsba. (read more)
"Virginia is for Lovers," you got nothing on this:
| December 16 2010 at 04:00 AM
What would Jesus tweet? The Digital Story of the Nativity
If Jesus was born today, in a time when social media saturates our lives, it might look something like this:
| December 15 2010 at 10:19 AM
Sketchy Santas: And you thought your holiday photos were bad
If you thought your holiday photos were weird, wait until you see the gems at the Sketchy Santas Tumblr. Most of them are downright creepy and make me think the reason I can't remember a single Santa photo session from my childhood is probably because I'm suppressing something very disturbing.
| December 15 2010 at 08:17 AM
YouTube top ten videos of 2010
YouTube has released its list of most-watched videos of 2010 and it's no surprise that Bed Intruder comes in at the top.
Take a deep look into the American psyche, it's a scary thing:
#1
#2
#3
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#5
#6
#7
#8
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#10
| December 13 2010 at 10:38 AM
How Obama's approval ratings stack up with history
President Barack Obama's once sky-high approval ratings have been on a steady slide, but how do they stack up to say, Nixon, or Carter?
TalkingPointsMemo.com has compiled an interactive graphic from Gallup Poll data that shows you - month by month - just how the current president's ratings compare to past chief executives. The graph, which initially looks little like a Jackson Pollock painting, can be broken out by president.
Despite much being made of Obama's ratings slide, according to TPM:
...an analysis of Gallup's presidential polling data, the general trend of Obama's approval ratings closely resemble those of other modern Presidents over their first two years in office. (read more)
Check out the slideshow and see for yourself:
| December 09 2010 at 11:30 AM
President of Botswana: No fat chicks
The next time you're updating your Match.com profile, you might want to ignore the advice of Botswana's President Ian Khama, who in describing his ideal future wife used a female government official in the audience as an example of what he wasn't looking for: "She may fail to pass through the door, breaking furniture with her heavy weight and even break the vehicle's shock absorbers."
Mr. President: I hear what you're saying, but maybe this is why you're still single.
According to ABC News this is a pressing national matter:
"The president's status as a bachelor is of general national concern. Khama, elected in 2009, is not only president, he's also the chief of the Bamangwato people, Botswana's largest ethnic group. Marriage is a requirement of tribal tradition, something that Khama, so far, has defied." (Read more)
| December 08 2010 at 09:22 AM
NASA discovers new form of life...in California
NASA researchers announced today they've discovered a totally different type of life form that some go so far as to call "alien." No, not on Mars, but in California's Mono Lake.
According to NASA, the discovery of a bacteria made of arsenic, totally throws a wrench into how we think about life on earth and perhaps the universe. I'll take their word for it.
NASA:
"The definition of life has just expanded," said Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington. "As we pursue our efforts to seek signs of life in the solar system, we have to think more broadly, more diversely and consider life as we do not know it."
"The idea of alternative biochemistries for life is common in science fiction," said Carl Pilcher, director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "Until now a life form using arsenic as a building block was only theoretical, but now we know such life exists in Mono Lake." (Read more)
VIDEO:
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| December 02 2010 at 01:05 PM
Steven Slater, don't quit your day job. Oh, wait...
Apparently, the dude who quit his job as a JetBlue flight attendant by telling a passenger to f-off, stealing a couple of beers and exiting via the jet's emergency slide, is back.
Stephen Slater's trying to grab the spotlight once again in an even more pathetic call for attention:
He's rapping. Poorly.
(Actually, it's an ad, but it's still pathetic)
Enjoy the train wreck:
| November 18 2010 at 10:08 AM
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