Quick Hitts

My company just laid off about 20% of their workforce, and I was one of the causalities. Now I get to go job hunting in an economy that’s sinking faster than Palin’s image as a folksy soccer mom. Oh joy.
This is the reality of working in IT. For every IT worker [...]

I don’t care how lonesome I get.  I can’t imagine ever, ever using this Canadian dating service.

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Here’s a list of things atheists didn’t do over the past month or so.
An Atheist did not set fire to his 11 year old niece for wearing lipstick. She has burns over 90% of her body and is not expected to survive.
No atheist decreed it was OK to kill the owners of Satellite TV [...]

I’ve always loved explosions. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve blowing things up, sometimes with commercial fireworks, sometimes with homemade fireworks, sometimes just by misusing common devices and/or chemicals. (Back then, there were real chemicals in chemistry sets.) If you’re a male you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Back when I [...]

New York City Mayor, Uber-nanny and full time scumbag Mike Bloomburg stood by term limits - until they would have affected him.
He put hundreds of venues and thousands of employees out of business with a smoking ban. Then he went after restaurant menus. But two terms hasn’t been long enough enough to [...]

I’m not even looking for these stories.  They’re so common I’ve been stumbling across them without effort. 
Via Windypundent here’s yet another story of a Thug in Blue shooting a dog for no reason.  The dog runs up to him, which is what dogs do when a stranger comes on his property, but doesn’t look [...]

The great Documentary Animal House taught us that “Fat Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life.” But removing “drunk” from the equation doesn’t result in an noticeable improvement:

There’s a new episode of the Quick Hitts Podcast available for your listening pleasure.  Get it while it’s hot and fresh. 
It’s titled - Bullies Always Win, because, well, they just do.  We see it around us every day - Banking Bullies, Stock Broker Bullies, Insurance Bullies, Lawyer Bullies and especially Government Bullies.  They may [...]

Lately I’ve been doing spectacularly lousy at poker.  My bankroll was down to 20% of what I started with.  I was paying $2.00 Sit-n-Gos, and I was losing them more often than not.  I was getting disgusted and bored and tired of the whole thing.
Full Tilt announced Matrix Tournaments, which give you four sit-n-gos for [...]

There’s an e-mail floating around warning people to vote on the correct day. Since a huge turnout is expected, it says, Republican’s should vote on Tuesday and Democrats and Independents should vote on Wednesday.
I’m guessing there are fuming lefties who see this as part of a vast conspiracy to screw people out of their [...]

John McCain helped pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a gift to the RIAA at the expense of his constituents.  He wasn’t alone - the act passed unanimously. 
Now he’s getting to enjoy the fruits of his labor.  YouTube has been yanking his videos as soon as someone makes a copyright complaint, as required by [...]

First, check out this e-bay feedback page. Note the stuff this guy is selling.  The oldest feedback available there dates to Nov 22, 2006. 
Pretty impressive, right?  Guess where he got it all that fine stuff.  Your luggage. 
As reported on Gadling, this guy, paid from your tax dollars to keep you safe, had no [...]

Finally, a story about a good cop, although to be good he has to break the law. 
Sheriff Thomas Dart said he’ll no longer evict tenants whose landlords are not paying their bills.  He and his deputies are expected to evict people who are unaware of their landlords situation.  These people are evicted without warning, [...]

Maryland cops are now putting the names of peaceful activists on terrorist lists.
This follows on the heels of five paramilitary strikes against protesters just before the Republican National Convention.  Groups with no history of violence were violently raided by SWAT teams, handcuffed, fingerprinted, and terrorized by police thugs.  The cops then stole their political literature, [...]

A friend just sent me two boxes of cigars and a link to this article.  The cigars were Comachos and Hoyo de Monterrey Excaliburs.  He also included a limited edition CAO thrown in for good measure.  The article breaks down the likely real cost of the bailout. It includes multi-billion dollar handouts to private companies [...]

The left and the right disagree on most issues. Usually, one side is right and the other is wrong. Quiet often, both sides are wrong. There have been rare instances where both sides agreed, but on side reached the right conclusions for the wrong reasons. But in my forty years as [...]

The latest Quick Hitts Podcast expalins the real cause of the meltdown, which has been overlooked by most of the mass media.
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A friend, who has one of the funniest blogs on the internet, sent me a link to a story about PETA that was too disgusting to even consider writing about. So I considered it. And he considered it. We wrote back and forth about how disgusting it was. It was like a contest between adolescent [...]