Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

A little Fox News trifecta.
Good: Pearl Suspect May Have Died
Bad: U.S. Still Too Vulnerable to Terrorists
Ugly: Man Gets 12 Years in Prison for Throwing Dog 23 Floors
(Geez, what is it about dogs lately? I don’t care for them personally but I’d never mess with them the way al-Qaeda, the Peruvian Army, and apparently this butthead have. In this case 12 years was too lenient; he should have been thrown off the same balcony.)

Is this unbelieveable or what?
Police: Ohio Woman Faked Daughter’s Cancer

URBANA, Ohio — Police said a woman fooled her 7-year-old daughter and residents into thinking the child had leukemia to get donations, shaving the girl’s head and giving her sleeping pills to make it appear she was receiving chemotherapy.

You have to get up pretty late at night to even approach being this sick. And I find it really difficult to believe that the husband didn’t know.

Malvo finds jail loaves to loathe

Fairfax County Sheriff Stan Berry said yesterday that if sniper suspect John Lee Malvo doesn’t like his jail’s vegetable loaf, the 17-year-old prisoner can eat the nonvegetarian meals served to the rest of the inmates.
But he shouldn’t expect customized meals.
“When you go to jail you lose a lot of choices, and what you eat is one of those choices you lose,” Sheriff Berry said.

Personally I say starve his sorry ass to death.

A great anti-anti-Christmas rant.

Maybe what Venezuela needs is another Operation Just Cause. Chavez is starting to sound a lot like Noriega. Read “Dignity Battalions” for “Bolivarian circles”, for instance.

Sorry, but I haven’t seen a design yet that would be more effective than leaving the hole in the ground and making a memorial park out of it.

It’s about bloody time! The FTC is going to roll out a national no-call list for telemarketers.

Under the new rules, telemarketers also must transmit identifying information that can be viewed by services like Caller ID and limit the number of calls that hang up or leave people listening to dead air on the line.

Now if they can force collection agencies to do the same…
I can’t tell you how many calls we get for peopledeadbeats who must have had our telephone number at some time in the past. I keep thinking I’m going to have to go buy a police whistle. Or sic Bun-Bun on them.

Hmm. Apparently I’m Doc Smith, he of Lensman and Skylark of Space fame.
I figured I’d be closer to Heinlein, but on the other hand I’m not fascinated by sex in quite the way he was. I’ve always been of the theory, based on my reading of Heinlein, that he and Ginny were up to some fairly weird shit. Not that there’s anything wrong with that; but my wife is all I need, as long as she keeps letting me window-shop. (The same permission is granted back the other way, I might add.)
Although I note that I had only to change “It is morally wrong to silence yourself just so somebody else can talk” to “I’m such a fascinating talker, folks are glad to let me do more of the talking” to change my paradigm to Heinlein. And I don’t really see that much difference in those two statements 🙂
(Thanks to Pej.)

If France and Germany think this is a bad idea, I’m all for it.
(Via The Professor.)

Men in U.S. From Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Required to Register With Government
A little late but we’re starting to get on the ball.