China told this dude to go to hell? Please.

Johnny Depp? Don’t care about him. Paris Hilton? Don’t care, and China might be making a smart play here, to be honest, but, Garfield motherfuckers?

I’m alright with blowing up China for banning Garfield as bad for the moral health of their people.

They set this whole thing up to block porn and violence, which hey, fuck ‘em for that, but even in that silliness, there are still lines you do not cross. Garfield is that line.

Maybe ban Odie. Maybe.

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As it stands right now, the frequency of celebrity deaths seems to be accelerating rapidly.  I am still doing some calculations, but as far as I can tell right now, within the next 18 months the most famous person left on the planet will be the older brother from Malcolm in the Middle.  So rather than try to stop it (cause really, how could you?) and rather than have a traditional Death Pool, let’s have a fucked up stupid one.  Here’s how it goes (EDIT: after I did it, I realized it is real life Clue):

• If you pick a PERSON and they die, you get 5 points.
• If you pick a CAUSEof death and someone famous dies of it, you get 3 points (like Overdose, Heart Attack, Earthquake, Bit by Gary Busey etc. And if you do a disease, you need to be specific.  You can’t just say: “Cancer” or “Disease”.)
• If you pick a ROOM of death – then you get 2 points (bathroom, hospital room, ballroom, sidewalk).
• If you get any combination of the three things above correct then the points are double.

You can enter as many times as you want.  If a lot of people do it, then I may have to make a page for it or some shit, but for now let’s see if this goes anywhere.  For my first entry, I am saying Muhammad Ali in his bedroom of a stroke!

Best thing to happen to tennis in years? Certainly.

This is the first time Wimbledon, a fairly big tennis tournament, has had a roof.

I was reading an article about this roof, and there is apparently controversy surrounding it.

One of the problems they seem to cite? It changes the weather conditions.

“It does change the conditions slightly (playing indoors) — for a start, there’s no wind.”

Why would they not look into this when they decided to create the roof?! For a start! What’s next? That there is no rain?!?! Maybe next the roof will prevent sunlight from coming in!?

“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” took in $112 million in the sequel’s first weekend and $201.2 million since opening Wednesday, according to Sunday estimates from Paramount, which is distributing the DreamWorks movie.

It was well on the way to becoming the year’s top-grossing movie.

Apparently it was like 2 mill short of The Dark Knight for top 5 day open honors.

This article had pretty much nothing of note. It was just all, “Transformers earns money” and “Megan Fox is sexier than Angelina Jolie” and “Seriously, you knew it was going to earn this much money, here you go.” Boring. Until this tidbit…

Now playing in almost every other country except India

What the fuck is wrong with India, man?

Billy Mays here for...

Not that I think his music was bad or whatever, loved the music, just really, work up an emotion over his death? Are you kidding me?

The Universe sensed my lack of emotion on this death and today, bit back.

DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday, MyFOXTampa.com reports.

This is a tragedy on many levels. Above all else, Mays was taken from this World before we could truly see the epic battle of the pitchmen that was around the corner with the Sham Wow dude.

I’ve never purchased OxiClean, but damn if I didn’t consider doing so loaded on booze at 2 in the morning a couple of times.

Sometimes the stuff that people DO talk about gets in the way of things that people SHOULD be talking about.  Now, all my energy saving ideas keep getting crapped on by ‘the man’ (why don’t they put windmills next to the interstate so the cars going by can make them spin and and least provide power for the streetlights?) but maybe since this one came from a regular source people will pay more attention.

Then again, the source is Popular Mechanics, so it is only being read by me and people who found a box of them when they had to clean out their grandfather’s house   Anyway – here is the deal (emphasis added by me):

…Researchers at the University of Texas recently unveiled a design for a hybrid fission–fusion reactor, a best-of-both-worlds device that would dispose of the deadliest waste from traditional nuclear power plants while generating power along the way. Most nuclear waste can be reprocessed for use as fuel in standard fission reactors, although that’s not currently the practice in the United States. The hybrid reactor would be a next step. It would employ fusion reactions to flood the remaining, highly dangerous transuranic waste with neutrons, allowing it to be burned in a fission process. One-third of the resulting energy would be fed back into the fusion process and the remaining 700 megawatts would be fed into the grid. According to senior research scientist Swadesh Mahajan, at the end of the process, about 99 percent of all nuclear waste could be eliminated. “What we really want to do is to tell the world, Please allow the expansion of nuclear energy, through standard light-water reactors,” Mahajan says. “It’s the only thing that can be ramped up quickly enough to replace coal. Do not worry about the waste. Because we’re going to give you the solution in 20 years. We will make it in time.”

Now, this may all be a bunch of hooey.  And if they figure the soonest they can do it is in 20 years then they have plenty of room to adjust their estimates.  Pretty much the only things I can predict for 20 years from now are my age and the ages of people whose ages I currently know.  But that doesn’t mean that all this money that’s being spent for this and that shouldn’t be spent on nuclear power plants.  Stop crying about all the ‘danger’ and ‘radioactive waste’.  You can put that shit in my backyard.  Think how many fewer solicitors you would get if your yard was full of nuclear waste!

Anyway – what do you think about nuclear power?  I say, if it’s good enough for Springfield, it’s good enough for us!