Today in #tips, Teabaggers call Sen. Lindsey Graham gay, scary school administrators watch your sleeping children, the sad, sinking state of Florida, homework-eating rats, a minute of mayhem planned for Thursday, and much more.
DearBrutus has the links and video of a crazy Teabagger calling for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) to come out of the closet, because he's confused over the whole "Lindsey" thing and he's seen Graham featured so artfully on that Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians blog.
andrewoc hasn't forgotten about the Orwellian Pennsylvania school district accused of activating students' laptop cameras from afar to check on the kids' "activity." Investigators have found that Lower Merion employees snapped 56,000 pics in two years, including "photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the programs or files running on their screens." It all came to a head when an assistant principal confronted sophomore Blake Robbins with a picture of Robbins holding some Mike & Ike candy, which the principal took to be evil fluorescent narcotics. Teenagers on drugs, a phenomenon known to occur, is still more OK than administrative-types watching your kids in their bedrooms.
andrewoc takes us deeper into the nightmare realm with a report that almost every digital copier made since 2002 comes equipped with a hard drive where it has systematically stored "an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine." We can only imagine the Christmas Party Xeroxed-asscheeks data goldmine.
Uncle_Billy_Slumming harshes our buzz with a reminder that today, International Smoke Up Even More Day, is also Hitler's birthday.
DogsOfWar has word that the Supreme Court of the United States' grand high pooh bah Justice John Roberts would like to know the difference "between email and a pager." Only one would be used these days to land drugs or hookers, John. Ask Scalia.
LadyE shares the most comedic legal document ever drafted amidst a dead-child backdrop. The judge in the Casey Anthony trial has recused himself, and the reasons involve "blogger/journalists" and "self-aggrandizing media hounds." Be sure to read the truly spectacular footnotes. We didn't think they were allowed to learn funny in law school.
BullfightsOnAcid releases a revelatory study out of the outback: Ladies who want to advance past the secretarial pool have to be better at building relationships outside of the office, which means drinking heavily with your co-workers to prove devotion/co-dependency and "going to the pub" with your boss.
DeezerD finds that Chris Kelly, formerly Facebook's chief privacy officer and current California attorney general hopeful, "said he believes his experience at Facebook, which he joined in 2005, will help make him an innovative and successful attorney general" likely because he can still sign in to your profile and see all of the illegal shit you're doing.
drunkexpatwriter tells us that the website run by Malcolm McLaren's son Joseph Corré is encouraging fans to observe a "minute of mayhem" at Thursday's funeral procession for the former Sex Pistols manager. We hope the streets are lined with amps.
Ultraumatic shares a story about rats eating homework at a university in Nepal. And if a workbook was left in a basement smeared with peanut butter, who's to say?
Des Esseintes pleaded that we think of Florida: The state has a huge "sinkhole" problem with weakened limestone threatening structures and livelihoods. The sinkhole issue (and its clash of sinkhole insurance inspectors vs. the sinkhole-afflicted) has been exacerbated by a cold winter and measures taken to protect strawberry crops. The situation is indeed dire, considering Florida's attendant "moneypit" crisis.
Moloko spotted an underminery UK Times fashion take on Tory leader David Cameron, with a photo of wife Samantha Cameron guarding the family jewels.
BullfightsOnAcid is all, hey, remember that one guy from a few years ago, went by "Bush's Brain," or plain old "Turd Blossom" to those who really understood him? Possible war criminal many times over, now big into the expensive speaking engagements and the Twitter? Yeah, so some socialist conspiracy journo tried to ask Karl Rove a question about his crimes and Rove told the dude to "sit down and shut up" and then the reporter got arrested because nobody puts Turd Blossom in a corner (standing in a stress position, wearing a hood, with electrodes attached).
La Mareada followed the ongoing drama of the aviation industry vs. "The Ash Attack" unleashed on the world by a sinister Iceland after we didn't buy enough stopover tickets to their cash-strapped country.
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