Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

And quite definitively, too. Go read it.

Take that, you scum-sucking Wahhabist terrorists.
We ought to do the same thing after we give them a fair trial and execute them.
Noted via LGF.

(Via The Professor)
I’m not convinced that selling vibrators in their health services dispensaries is really furthering a university’s academic mission.
I have nothing against a woman using a vibrator, mind you; that’s her business, and as the one student commented, “If people really want one, they can go online.”
Universities continue their slide into irrelevancy with this kind of idiocy.

Here we go again. Another Eagle Scout is claiming he’s an atheist and trying to keep the BSA from kicking him out.
Same old story. This has been tested in court (California Supreme Court, of all places) and upheld. Besides the fact that this “kid” is 19 years old and in two years he’ll be out as a youth member anyway.
How did this boy deal with all the years of repeating the Scout Law, whose 12th point is “A Scout is Reverent”, and the Scout Oath, which says “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law” and refers to keeping oneself “morally straight”?
I guess he just plain lied, didn’t he? Throw out “A Scout is Trustworthy” I guess. And if he’s not Trustworthy, I don’t see how he could be considered Loyal, either.
This is a JOINING REQUIREMENT, for crying out loud. He should have quit as soon as he realized he was an atheist. And I’m frankly amazed he got through his Eagle Board of Review.

…Jesse and Al have been hit with a lawsuit claiming that their remarks about the movie “Barbershop” drove customers away. And get this — it’s not from the moviemakers — it’s from an association of barbershops and beauty salons who say the remarks negatively impacted their business!

The suit was filed Monday by the National Association of Cosmetologists. It accuses Jackson and Sharpton of intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, and negligence stemming from their demand for apologies from MGM, which produced the comedy.
The activists had called for scenes deriding Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to be removed from the film starring Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer. MGM refused to cut the scenes.
The association, which claims to represent 50,000 barbers and beauticians, said Jackson and Sharpton misrepresented themselves as spokesmen for the group.
James Stern, chief executive of the group, said Sharpton’s threat to boycott the film and other remarks created a negative public sentiment about the profession, resulting in a loss of business.

Can you say “restraint of trade”? I knew you could.
Turnabout is fair play, boys. No boo-hooing for the cameras, please.
And now, pardon me while I go laugh hysterically…

The Professor links to two stories of true sportsmanship this fine day: Here, and here. And tell me you didn’t wipe a tear away after reading the second one.

…I can’t sign this divestment petition since I work for a company headquartered in Stockholm, with offices in London and Erlangen. (However our largest office is in the US, and I get paid in dollars out of the US office, so maybe I’ll sign it anyway.)

Apparently there was no bomb; the driver fell asleep and hit a sign standard, which ruptured a fuel tank and set the dual trailers on fire.
I have to say I was a bit dubious when I considered that there was no crater and the tractor was practically unscathed. But I can see why it was treated more seriously than otherwise might have been warranted by the responding officers.
My next question is how in hell a truck driver running one of those tandem rigs falls asleep at the wheel. An inspection of his log will probably show that he wasn’t taking his mandated breaks and was way over on his driving hours.
And they not only want to keep driving the tandem rigs, they want to drive triples, too. Didn’t these people ever hear of the railroad?

Sally got up at 6AM to go to work and promptly woke me up when she turned on the bathroom light. So much for sleeping till 8:30.
Hour and a half staff meeting at 11AM. Boring.
Product support for morons the rest of the day. Boring.
Raining all day. Priceless. (At least I wouldn’t pay for it.)
Possible bloggage later but I doubt it. I’ll probably pick up where I left off tomorrow.
It is intriguing however that a FedEx truck has blown up on I-270 in St. Louis.

James Taranto (Best of the Web) is always good, but the first crack out of the box today at BOTW will make you snort coke up your nose (the carmel-colored variety, and out rather than in, so cover your keyboard first).
Briefly, Slate’s daily “Bushism of the day” isn’t even a Bushism. If you look at the transcript, it was said by…get this…Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
Sad that the Left can’t even get its quotes straight.