“Hackers who use the internet to alter people’s identities on the [New Zealand] electoral roll could face prosecution. “The warning from Electoral Enrolment Centre manager Murray Wicks follows the plight of a New Plymouth woman whose name was changed to Mr Fat Ass,” The New Zealand Herald reports. Kylene Soar was stunned when she received the letter from the electoral centre asking her to confirm that she had changed her

I can’t tell you why this bothered me so much, but it did. For whatever reasons. So y’know, I’m just saying, is all… From the Dayton Daily News: In a post-Columbine world, acts of innocent fun have sometimes turned into criminal acts of revenge. Nobody

— Hello. You’ve reached the mobile communication unit of Eugene Glick. If you and your friends are planning to: 1) Give me an atomic wedgie — an exercise in which I’m pinned against a gym locker while you yank the waistband of my undies up over my head, nearly severing one of my testicles in the process — please press the # button. 2) Corner me in the school lavoratory

“More than 17 million adults in the United States have at some time impersonated Elvis Presley, according to a poll released on Monday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the singer’s death. “The Harris poll found that 71 million Americans over the age of 18 considered themselves Elvis fans, while 70 percent of the adult population had watched at least one of Presley’s 33 movies,” the Independent Online reports. The

Den Beste talks about pseudonymous posting, courage of convictions, and &tc. Me, I’m a hawkish humanities teacher who curses alot, thinks just about everyone working in his field is heavily invested in theoretical tripe (I beg them to change, really I do), and is convinced that the “diversity” project so favored by university bureaucrats ranks right up there with the push to switch Americans over to the metric system as

“Not Geico, ‘Gecko,‘! Gecko! You ignorant, fat-assed motherfuccccggrrrmmph!

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Super-macho Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat struts around in battle fatigues, sports a pistol on his hip and boasts of his glory days as a bomb-throwing Arab

“A patient at a drug treatment center died of an overdose of heroin that was smuggled into the facility by another resident, police said. “Aaron Kononitz died Saturday, a day before he was to graduate from Operation PAR’s residential drug treatment program in Largo,” Newsday reports. Yep, died of an overdose. At a drug treatment center. The day before he was to graduate. …That sound you hear is the sound

So, I’m on this kinda mini-vacation while I try to get some things done around here, which means blogging is going to be spotty today and tomorrow. On the other hand, Letter from Gotham is not on vacation. And she’s taking it out on a handful of leftyblogs in workmanlike fashion. Or, er, “workwomanlike” fashion, I guess. Stupid PC language butchers.

…Speaking of movies (yes I was), I’ve been working on compiling a hyperlinked list of the movies in my collection. Y’know, in case anybody wants to trade or anything. You can peruse that list by clicking on “Jeff’s Movie Collection,” over there on the left. If you’re interested, I mean.