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A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
I just get baffled when everyone loves a comedy, and I watch it and don't find it funny. I had two different people, that didn't know each other, recommend the movie IDIOCRACY. Mike Judge wrote/directed it, and his Office Space is one of the funniest comedies ever. His Beavis & Butthead was clever and fun. So, this movie about Luke Wilson being an average slacker for the ARMY, who is frozen and wakes up a thousand years in the future and is now considered a genius because of the dumbing down of society....I'm on board! And this movie was awful! I'll borrow the DVDs from my sister, next time she's in town.— April 24, 2009 12:15 a.m.
Electric Cigarettes, Cyrus, Homeless, Chinese...Something offensive for everyone!
Mike, I couldn't agree more. As much as I would preach for cigarette smokers rights, they'd go and piss me off by just chucking their butts anywhere. When I smoke a cigar, and it's finished...I carry it around. I make sure it has been out for a long time before it's thrown away (if it's not an ashtray but a trashcan). When I clean up my dogs poo...I sometimes have to walk around with a bag of it until I'm able to throw it away. Yet, smokers must feel that it's just a small little item, so who cares. One of the few times I ever disagreed with Adam Carolla on one of his rants...he was complaining about a cop that pulled him over for throwing a lit cig out his window. He said the usual, stupid cliche about how cops should be catching real criminals. Well, in my mind, the cop just did. A fire hazard and litter, all in a two-inch cancer stick thrown from a car.— April 24, 2009 12:12 a.m.
Parents Gone Wild
Mindy...under normal circumstances, a child abduction joke would get a similar response from me. But he threw in the giggity Family Guy ref, so to me it's all good.— April 24, 2009 12:09 a.m.
What have you done that most people haven't?
How dare you! How dare you...forget the name of the cutest chimp in showbiz, Mr. Jacksons Bubbles, not Giggles. Giggles was his nickname for the tickle game he played with the children. I played Elvis one Halloween in 11th grade. Grew some wicked sideburns, had my sister sew a sequin cape. It was cool. I went to drug store and got empty pill containers that I filled with sweettarts, and I'd just down them. When I was in radio in the early 90s, on some anniversary of Elvis (maybe his birthday, can't remember), the Hard Rock surprised us by stopping by and giving 50 peanut butter/banana sandwiches to our staff. It was the first and last time I had one, but it was surprisingly good.— April 24, 2009 12:06 a.m.
Parents Gone Wild
Wow! Let me say this...I'm all for parents spanking. I argued with an SDSU professor in class once about this. He claimed it is never okay to spank a kid. So, I'm all for extreme forms of...punishment. Whether that's parents doing it to kids, police doing it to perps, etc. I think 10 is a bit young to be left outside a car to "learn a lesson." What if a pedophile drives by and abducts her? What would the mom have to say in explanation? If she absolutely had to do that move, what about the old....driving away (for about 50 feet), stopping the car, and saying "Are you going to behave now? If so, you can come get back in the car." Haven't you seen those reality cop shows, where an officer is giving a ticket, and another drunk driver hits them? You have situations like that which can occur on the side of a road. It's no place to teach 10 year olds lessons.— April 23, 2009 4:15 p.m.
Police Officer Shootings
A cop that played on my high school basketball team...I read about him in the paper. He pulled some joker over and was walking to the car. He heard a noise. A bullet wizzin' right by him. He dropped to a knee, unloaded, and killed the guy. As rickeysays said, the police deal with the scum of the earth. On a daily basis. A sheriff friend of mine named Dan, told me of how he'd be in Oceanside in his cop car, and these gang members would just start yelling crap at him. He'd ignore it. I'm willing to bet that list you posted, 98% of them were justified shootings. The other 2%, were probably people that weren't outstanding members of society, that just happened to get shot. But maybe they shouldn't have been (if that makes sense). My point though, with CityBeat is...well, Kelly came on her and kept knocking my boss. Saying it's their papers right to do that, because of his belief. Well, how interesting is that for their few readers? Do they want to keep reading about him? I'm guessing not. So personal vendettas, in a paper, make the paper look bad. Readers of those things just lose interest, or they feel like screaming "yeah, we get the point. he feels this way about that topic, get over it." And, speaking of the CityBeat people...they posted my email address on various websites, asking people to write hate mail. Including to this publication. I've gotten a big....ONE LETTER, of complaint. But still, it's the point of the thing. That's rather bushleague to do this. Very unprofessional.— April 23, 2009 4:12 p.m.
Commercials and Candy Bars
I'm looking forward to the picnic or pool party in August. Regarding the writing...yeah, go for it, Magic. I'm going to start saying that the reason I have so many spelling errors, typos, and bad punctuation (gotta love them there commas) is so writers like you are more willing to jump in and write. If I can do it, hell, anyone can.— April 23, 2009 4:05 p.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
Back to the beauty pagaent section of this blog: How idiotic is it of Perez Hilton to go on shows calling the runner up a "stupid bitch" because of her answer. I didn't care for her answer (for a few reasons), but I also had a bit of a problem with his (loaded) question. Somebody slap Perez for me. And don't invite him back next year.— April 23, 2009 4:01 p.m.
A Cop and Contestant in a Pagaent
SD, you made me think...they always say actors want to be singers, singers want to act, blah blah blah. I wonder if runners and athletes, when they are out...maybe they were a suit and tie, INSTEAD of a sweat suit! I would've yelled lyrics at Reed. Kinda like how those guys did when they saw Sting in the elevator on that Saturday Night Live skit. Geez, if another person tells me about Arrested Development. I've never seen it...but I'm reluctant on new shows. All the critics went nuts over 30 Rock, and it's not very good. Same with South Park. So, I've given up on TV shows. They're to...sitcommy. If I stumble upon one and like it, okay. Fine. But I won't take ANY recommendation, although Arrested Development has been recommended to me countless times.— April 23, 2009 4 p.m.
Electric Cigarettes, Cyrus, Homeless, Chinese...Something offensive for everyone!
Yes, I loved when Brizz wrote that.— April 23, 2009 3:55 p.m.