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Decline of Western Civilization

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

It’s on now.  Discuss.

If you’re like me and you lament the decline of the proper written English language, have no fear. A champion has arrived.

I realize that I often make mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling in my blog posts, but I do try to make an effort to make sure that they are correct.  I understand the value of properly written and formatted English, and I do think it’s huge shame that it seems to be going extinct.

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Sad news out of Minnesota, the body of missing college student Dru Sjodin has been found.

She was kidnapped and murdered in North Dakota.  Does that state have the death penalty?

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Call me heartless, but I get roughtly the same reaction upon reading this as I do when I hear about two mafia guys killing each other.

California’s multi-billion-dollar adult porn industry ground to a virtual halt on Thursday after a popular actor tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS.

Industry advocates immediately called for a 60-day moratorium on filming so that others could be tested.

Actor Darren James tested positive for HIV on Wednesday in screening conducted routinely on the industry’s 1,200 regular actors by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare (AIM) Foundation, the foundation’s Dr. Elizabeth Mitchel said.

They must show negative tests to keep working in the industry, Mitchell said, adding that only about 17 percent of performers use condoms.

James, the first porn actor to test positive for the virus since 1999, had a “stellar record” of tests—negative every three weeks for the past seven years, she said.

Actually, with all the sex the porn industry takes part in, it’s kinda surprising that he’s the only case in five years.  But like mafia hitmen, you can’t expect to use a weapon for a living and not expect something bad to happen to you in return.  If being a male porn star was as safe a job as an accountant, everyone would do it.

The only thing that would make this story any better would be if their names were Ben Dover and Phillip McAvity.

Two gay Alabama prisoners have sued the state for the right to get married, but the state attorney general’s office wants to block their union.

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Truman Hobbs presided over a hearing Wednesday to hear argument on the state’s motion to dismiss the case.

The two inmates—Darius Chambers and Jonathan Jones—are representing themselves in the case and did not attend the hearing. Both are incarcerated at Fountain Correctional Facility.

Chambers and Jones sued the state Jan. 9, “on behalf of themselves and other similar situated couples in the state of Alabama,” their lawsuit said.

I wonder which one will be the husband and which will be the wife.

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Last year I blogged on the case of a teenager who was trying to run over a woman so he could have sex with her corpse.  Well, he’s going to the slammer for a long time.

A teen who wrote about wanting to do “horrible things” was sentenced to 50 years in prison for trying to kill a woman by driving up onto a sidewalk to hit her with his sport utility vehicle.

District Judge Kenneth Neill sentenced Daniel Robbins to 80 years, with 30 years suspended, for attempted murder. Robbins pleaded guilty in February.

Police say Robbins, now 17, told investigators he tried to kill Patty Emanuel, 40, while she was jogging last May 27 because he wanted to have sex with her corpse.

“Mental health is no excuse for this act,” Neill said. “He knew what he was doing.”

Neill noted a class assignment where Robbins, at age 15, listed as New Year’s resolutions goals such as tasting human flesh and getting a driver’s license “so I can do those horrible things people like to read about in the paper.”

“The defendant made up his mind to run her down well in advance,” Neill said. “It is a miracle that she survived.”

This kid would have grown up to be a serial killer.  Score one for decent society.

Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Following up on this post, here’s yet another example of Daddy’s Little Girl going off to journalism school.  Classy.  Note that the rest of the paper consists of left-wing conspiracy theory drivel, which is pretty much par for the course.

Sunday, April 11, 2004

And now I proudly present the latest chapter in my series, Corporate Pandering to Uppity Minorities.  This week’s spotlight:  McDonalds.

Friday, April 09, 2004

The first rule of the Fraternity is you do not talk about the Fraternity.  The second rule of the fraternity is that you do not talk about the Fraternity.  The third rule iof the Fraternity is to drink so much you pass out and end up have pranks performed on your sleeping body.

Fraternity brothers who allegedly drew a swastika and penises on a young woman while she slept led to Phi Kappa Sigma�s being banned from the University of New Hampshire, a UNH report says.

UNH�s Judicial Programs Office permanently dismissed Phi Kappa Sigma on April 2, denying an appeal and saying the fraternity was responsible for �verbal/physical abuse and discriminatory harassment.� After declining to give details of the incident, UNH released documents this week after a request by The Union Leader.

An incident report from UNH�s Judicial Programs Office said the woman consumed alcohol at Phi Kappa Sigma�s house one night during the weekend of Feb. 28, 2003 and fell asleep on a couch in the frat house.

The woman, a member of a UNH sorority, woke to find markings on her face, arms, neck and back including the Greek letters of the fraternity, drawings of penises and a large swastika drawn on one of her hands, the report said. They were done in red and black permanent marker.

I couldn’t tell you the number of eyebrows I shaved off drunk patrygoers back in my day.  We actually took a guy once who was too drunk top know where he was, bought him a one-way bus ticket to Beaumont, TX, and stuck him on it, passed out.  Then we took off his shoes and pinched his wallet.  Needless to say when he called us from Beaumont he was, shall we say, a tad pissy.  So we wired him $100 so he could buy some clothes and get home.  Buy the time he got there he had forgiven us and thought it was a cool prank.

This broad got off light.  Quit whining, honey, and have another brew.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with a preview of the Enron CEO defense: insanity.

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI agents, a police source told The Associated Press.

Police found Skilling at 4 a.m. at the corner of Park Avenue and East 73rd Street and determined he might be an “emotionally disturbed person,” said the source, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity.  . . .

Skilling was at two bars in Manhattan � American Trash and The Voodoo Lounge � where he allegedly ran up to patrons and pulled open their clothes, the source said.

“He was shouting at them ‘You’re an FBI agent and you’re following me,’” the source said.

This isn’t without precendent.  Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, boss of the Genovese crime family, got away with his crimes for over 30 years by pretending to be insane.  He used to wander around the streets of Greenwich Village wearing his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling to himself.  So perhaps Skilling things that he can borrow a trick or two from The Chin and keep himself out of the hoosegow for a couple of decades?  Stranger things have happened.

Update: Skilling’s attorney says not so fast.

“The AP story is grossly inaccurate. Mr. Skilling asked several passing cab drivers to call for the police after he and his wife were followed and harassed by two men, who questioned him about Enron and refused to answer when Mr. Skilling asked whether they were FBI agents.

“Mr.Skilling and his wife were pushed to the ground. He and his wife were taken to the hospital. His wife suffered a concussion and he suffered minor abrasions. Mr. Skilling was not at the two bars mentioned in the article.

“This is an outrageous example of how pre-trial prejudice generated by the government and others have put Mr. Skilling and his family in danger. The fact that a police source would spread this story is deeply troubling.”

Not as troubling as Skilling’s activities while running Enron.

Wednesday, April 07, 2004

I didn’t make it home to see American Idol.  Which talentless clod had their dreams shattered on live TV?

If executions were shown on TV, would you watch?  Of course you would, and you wouldn’t be alone.

Two-thirds of Americans polled last month said they support the idea of televising executions � and 21 percent said they�d pay to watch Osama bin Laden put to death.

Eleven percent said they would pay to see Saddam Hussein executed.

A national telephone poll of more than 1,000 people aged 18 or older, done for Trio cable network by Harris Interactive, asked respondents who they would most likely pay to watch executed if executions were shown on pay-per-view television.

Bin Laden, accused of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was named by 21 percent of those polled. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was named by 11 percent.

Not only would I watch executions if they were on TV, I’d get the whole family around, cook up some popcorn, and make it kind of like the experience I had with my family watching The Waltons in the 1970s.  Only with more death.

As we all know, in the world of political correctness everyone is a victim.

MEGA SEARCH engine Google has been hit by complaints that its search engine is anti-Semitic.

It all started when Steven Weinstock, a New York real estate investor and former yeshiva student, did a Google search on “Jew”.

The first site he got was Jew Watch, which looks at alleged Jewish conspiracies, Nazi literature and other anti-Semitic topics, under headings such as “Jewish Controlled Press” and “Hitler on the Jews�

Weinstock has launched an online petition asking Google to remove the site from its index.

“The fact that the first search result would yield an anti-Semitic site is all too common in a growing era of increased anti-Semitism,” Weinstock wrote in his introduction to the petition.

The fact that this idiot thinks that Google’s search engine is somehow anti-semitic is all too common in a growing era of perpetual victimhood and dumbass PC asshattery.  This is as stupid as that woman who claimed that the word “niggardly” was racist.

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

If there was ever any doubt that Western civilization was doomed, this should erase it.  (Not safe for work.)

Update: And the comment of the day goes to The Ugly American.

Kinda like when Janeane Garafalo opens her trap.  You’re disgusted beyond words, but at the same time wonder what it would be like to screw her brains out.

Priceless.

You send your daughter off to college to get an education and she writes stuff like this.  The pride you must feel seeing that Daddy’s little girl is learning how to be a journalist.

Oh, that decline of Western civilization.