Dead Cant Rant

Did you know that Terri was walking with assistance in physical therapy until her husband ordered all rehabilitative care stopped immediately?
Did you know that Terri suffered a near-fatal infection in 1995 and her husband ordered her doctors to not provide any treatment whatsoever?
Did you know that out of approximately $1 million awarded to Terri for [...]

Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas on Imus yesterday morning:

I just love this story because it makes the press look so bad. I mean, I hope it all works out and we do get peace and freedom in the Middle East, but my short-term, narrow entertainment here is that, you know, all the chattering classes, [...]

Reneé is, without a doubt, hands down the wittiest, pithiest person I’ve ever known in my entire life. Sample these quotable quips produced over dinner tonight:

Moderation is way overrated.
I’m not your Jiminy Cricket.
What’s all this about prison overpopulation? They can’t be overpopulated — it’s two guys doing it!
If men wanted smart women they’d have been [...]

The U.N. wants to win over soccer moms and dads to its anti-landmines campaign.
How?
By blowing up American children in a soccer game. Yes, really, in a new “public service announcement” created by an American PR firm, American girls are blown up during a soccer game when one of them steps on a landmine. Thankfully, so [...]

The Easter bunny has hopped into the crosshairs of the PC police.
It’s a rite of Spring in most suburban shopping malls for youngsters to participate in Easter egg hunts or pose for photos with the Easter Bunny with the same fervor they had for sitting on Santa’s lap during the Christmas holiday season.
But in the [...]

How would the chicken cross the road, in Borland Object Pascal, as seen on RandomChicken.com:

program KFC;

uses
Salt, Pepper, Flour, HotOil, Poultry, MackTruck;

const
MPH = 90;

var
{Don’t reference your chickens before they’re declared!}
Chicken : Poultry.Fowl;
Truck : MackTruck.EighteenWheeler;

begin
Chicken.Hatch; {Constructor}
Truck.Start; {Constructor}
Truck.Rev(MPH);
Chicken.Cross(Road);
Truck.Horn.Honk;
[...]

Three people are dead in Atlanta because of political correctness. Brian Nichols, 33, is charged with invading his girlfriend’s home with a loaded machinegun and raping and sodomizing her for three days as a twisted “present” for her birthday. Two days before the shooting rampage at the Atlanta courthouse, Nichols was caught with two knives [...]

Song of the moment: Waitress In The Sky by The Replacements.
Sung to the tune of Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum.

She don’t wear no pants and she don’t wear no tie
Always on the ball, she’s always on strike
Struttin’ up the aisle, big deal, you get to fly
You ain’t nothin’ but a waitress in the [...]

Ten years ago the Mexican government said it had lost the only Texan flag to have survived the Battle of the Alamo. Now, a Dallas Morning News reporter discovered the flag is alive and well — in a glass display case at Mexico’s National History Museum. Mexico refuses to return the flag, because it symbolizes [...]

In today’s issue of the San Antonio Express-News, Ed Conroy — “Special to the Express-News” — reviews the new book Auschwitz: A New History by the BBC’s Laurence Rees. I had the pleasure of reading through this book at the bookstore a couple of nights ago, and it is an incredibly good account of the [...]