Yep...

Time Warp...

The evolution of Dance. 6 hysterical minutes by Jud Laipply.

"But they were very tiny glasses..."

– This story was posted on msnbc.com on 5/23/06

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken.

It wasn't.

Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday.

Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter.

"This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned."

Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people.

"A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel," said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness center in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk.

Sungaila, who was slapped with a 3,000 litas ($1,110) fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast.

Lithuania has one of the worst road safety records in the European Union. Last year, 760 people died in traffic accidents in this country of 3.5 million residents. Most were alcohol-related.

If 35% of all traffic accidents are caused by drunk drivers, then that means 65% were caused by sober drivers. Therefore the odds are almost 2 to 1 in favor of driving drunk.

Statistics to dazzle people with

Congratulations

to my sister-in-law for graduating from college this weekend. Though I was unable to attend the festivities, I say "Bravo!" Way to stick to your guns and get that valuable piece of paper! Now go earn more money than my brother!

In other news, my weekend was pretty spectacular other than a killer migraine headache yesterday afternoon. Both Friday and Saturday nights I actually went to sleep with a smile on my face. That happens way too infrequently for my taste.

This is the "move the majority of my stuff" to my new place week. Gonna be haulin' stuff every evening. yeah.

Friday is the big "moving" day where utilities get switched, the big furniture is moved, and I plan on sleeping there by Friday night. Can do" is my attitude on this.

Stuck in Lodi again? Hmmm...

Double Dumbass: Man Sues Himself Over Truck/Car Accident - Curtis Gokey was driving a dump truck for the city of Lodi, California when backed into a parked car. Gokey admitted it was his fault and the owner of the car submitted a claim to the city for $3600 in damages. The only problem is, Gokey also owns the car he ran into. When the city denied the claim (because Gokey WAS at fault) he took the unusual move of filing a lawsuit using his wife Rhonda's name. City Attorney Steve Schwabauer said this case lacks merit because Rhonda Gokey can't sue her own husband as the couple is considered one unit in the community property state.

From the "You Have a Baby -- In A Bar!" files...

Okay, Have You Heard This One? A Toddler Walks Into a Strip Club . . . - If only it were a joke. But no, a Kansas man, Christopher Greg Killion, 31 is now at the top of our list for Father of the Year. It seems that Mr. Killion wanted to visit a strip club in Tulsa, Oklahoma but was watching his young son at the time. What to do? Why, leave the kid in the car and tell him that if he gets out that, "monsters would eat him" of course! Apparently the lad overcame his fear of monsters and shortly thereafter the manager of the club called police when the boy wandered in about 30 minutes after dad. (Can you still get a decent table that late?) The cops who arrived were not too happy with Killion, pointing out that the car was unlocked and parked about 20 feet from a four-lane street or that it was raining and 45 degrees outside at the time. It'll be a while before dad gets another lap dance: he was arrested and taken to jail.

This story found at Bob Reno's Dumbass Daily. Pretty funny stuff!

Last night

I re-discovered my love for garlic fries.

The question was posed

As to how a person can be automatically notified whenever I update my blog. First, thank you to anyone who enjoys my writing enough to want to stay on the cutting edge of my seemingly random yet poignantly humorous thoughts. Using BottomFeeder, you can subscribe to blogs and can see the latest entries quickly and easily. But since this is an application you have to open, it really isn't any easier than simply opening the blog from a bookmark.

If anyone does know how you can subscribe to a blog in such a way as to automatically receive emails when new entries are posted, let me know. I would be very grateful.

It's 3am and I am awake... crap. Insomnia boy has reared his ugly head tonight. Hopefully not for long.

Watch this video

clip from Fox News then come back to this. In summary (for those whose Internet Browser is having trouble displaying it, you might want to just read this partial transcript) the question presented and discussed by a female journalist with a female USC Law Professor was "Is there a double standard (or perceived double standard) between a female teacher having sexual relationships with male students vs. male teachers and female students? And furthermore, is there even another standard when the female teacher is attractive?"

The comments from these ladies is one I would expect: "How can guys ask the question 'where were these ladies when I was in school?'" And they are of course appalled at the act of the statutory rape. And label me pig, but I am one of those guys with his hand in the air asking that exact question. Why? For several reasons.

First, it is a simple truth that the act of sex is very different between men and women. From a purely physical standpoint, a man has to be aroused and women don't (the act of copulation). This implies heavily (even more so in the case of the attractive women) that the idea of sex in these cases was not just a one-way decision. Like it or not, the boys were excited by the prospect and probably had big grins at the time. I don't see these boys as being physically overpowered and forced into a state of arousal (this from a typical male who lived thru the teen years when seriously all it took was a quick breeze before we had our coats or books covering our laps during class). Rape is defined as an act of violence, a point no one contests. In the case of a man raping a woman, there is typically the physical struggle and abuse. When you reverse the roles, where is the violence?

Second, it is pretty well documented that sex is typically physical for men and emotional for women. Billy Crystal said it best - "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place." Barring the transmittal of a venereal disease, these boys are not going to suffer physically from having sex, whereas girls can suffer severe physical abuse and long term damage. So then the other side of the coin comes into play -- emotional trauma and abuse. Now this I can see being an issue in some of the cases, i.e. the woman promises love and fidelity only to break the young boy's heart (it is called a "crush" for a reason). That can be devastating. But again, for most young men the idea of hooking up with the hot teacher (or older lady) is simply a fantasy dreams are made of. Don't believe me on this? How do you explain these Pop Culture references (none of which fall into the "pornographic" category by any standards I have heard):

"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" - The Graduate
"I'm Hot For Teacher" - Van Halen
"Stacy's Mom Has Got it Going On" - Fountains of Wayne

It is a common theme in literature, movies, and television: A young man has a crush on his teacher or another older woman. We sit back and say "Aahhh" as she pats him on the cheek at the end and says "You are going be some heartbreaker when you get older." Is it really a surprise then that guys read about beautiful women like Debra LaFavre or Pamela Rogers; women who are physical embodiments of this fantasy, ask themselves "Where were these women when I was a kid?"

Now before I get the onslaught of comments about my apparent lack of social graces, let's be clear:

Do I think these women should be held accountable for their actions? Yes. These women are in a position of authority, and if that authority was abused to get sexual favors then that is wrong. I believe if the "victims" suffer mental anguish as a result then the appropriate penalties should be enforced.

Do I think the charges should be blind to the sex of the parties involved (male vs. female)? NO. I strongly believe more often than not a teenage boy having sex with an older woman is a fantasy come true. I don't believe these women "forced" these boys to have sex. This is something that can be measured and quantified. If the sex was consensual, then terms like "rape" and "sexual battery" are not applicable. I think there should be accountability for bad decision making (an older woman making plays for men too young to really know what they are getting into), and if emotional trauma can be accounted for in the "victims" then let the punishment fit the crime. But rape? No.

I have stated in previous posts my position on bullies. I have a passionate hate for anyone who picks on someone simply because they can. Rape is an act of a bully; physically overpowering someone and forcing them to do something they don't want to. That definition should be kept at the forefront of the debate. That is my opinion.

So another season comes to an end

for the Sacramento Kings. I can say I am not surprised, but a little bummed nevertheless. I think for a little while there the Kings were in a position to take the series from the Spurs (specifically game 5 after the epic blowout of game 4) but ultimately just didn't have enough to get it done. Now of course we spend the next 5 months playing armchair coach. My sole question is did Coach Adelman ride his core players into the ground and not use his bench enough? I understand the guys who got you there are the ones you ride thru the post season, but an 8-man rotation against a team using 9 or 10 seems to leave you at a disadvantage, fatigue wise.

Can we bring ourselves to relate to this?

Bill Gates wishes he wasn't the richest man in the world. Currently worth only about $50 billion, I think he is going to have a hard time getting people to understand his pain.

In other news, I saw MI: III Tuesday night. I had an absolute great time. What a great roller coaster ride. Here's a review that pretty much mirrors my opinion. Try to see this on the big screeen as you don't want to miss anything!

This time out there are three hotties worthy of the name. Here's Maggie Q, lookout for the red dress.