Hitting the high Notes - 12/31/09

OK let's close out the year with one final look at some odd news stories I have found in the past few weeks:

-Just had to share this one: Here is a quote from a Charlotte Observer online article about Tara Reid's Playboy Cover. "Um, Tara? We're very sorry about your botched plastic surgery, but we're not sure the way to show the world that you're okay is to be on the cover of Playboy sporting clown boobs and raccoon eyes and looking like you have to pee." HA! Sounds exactly like I wrote it but I didn't. Credit goes to someone named Andrea Reiher.

-You may want to think twice before sending your kid to this daycare. The owners were busted for selling moonshine right out of the area where the kids were kept. They confiscated 86 gallons of the hooch. Oh and by the way the owners say they were set up. Sure you were... You just keep on believing that!

-Nothing terribly exciting in this story about a couple of snatch and grab burglars at our local Tiffany store other than the name of one of the robbers. His name Dean Patrick Griswold. It seems that around Christmastime there is always something going on with the Griswolds. I think when you are blessed (or cursed) with the name Griswold you certainly have something to live up to in life. It seems Dean Patrick certainly is doing his part.

- What should we do to save the environment? Use "green" vibrators of course! The article details how the sex toy industry uses tons of batteries that make toxic waste and so an Irish company tho has created green vibrators. "You just flip out the handle, grab a hold of it there, and you just wind it," said Janice O'Connor, the co-founder with her husband Chris, of Caden Enterprises which makes the gadget.
"So for four minutes of doing that, you should generate enough power to give you 30 minutes of full-on, right-to-the top vibrations," she told AFP.
She added: "I've only used it a couple of times, and it's fantastic. It's very intense, and sometimes, at the top level, depending on the person that's using it, it can actually be too intense sometimes. So ladies, are you ready to switch for 2010?

-Finally another Charlotte story about our local politician idiot Bill James. This guy is famous here locally for his intolerance of others and he may have gone over the top this time. During a County commission meeting where same sex partner benefits were being debated another commissioner whose son had died of AIDS was speaking. After she was finished this guy Bill James had the nerve to ask. "Your son was a homo, really?" At first he tried to deny it but it was caught on tape. I mean for real, no matter what your stance on the matter is that is just plain classless.

OK that's hitting the high notes for now... We will be back in 2010 with plenty of other odd news and morons doing stupid stuff. Enjoy!

-Doc