Those of you who know me know I have an abiding hatred of all things Walmart. In fact, one of my favorite lines from Boston Legal was when Denny Crane and Alan were sitting on the balcony and Denny Crane asks Alan what he would do to make the world a better place. Alan response was something along the lines of ‘destroy all businesses with mart in the name’.

I haven’t spent any money in a Walmart in at least 4 years and try not to go into them at all so you know I love this website. I hope they post lots more.

(PeopleOfWalmart via Gizmodo)

I’ve never been a huge Carmen Electra fan but back in the day she was pretty hot regardless of how you measure it.

Like this:

Now she looks like this:

Your call.

I don’t know who Laura is but I caught The Guide For Being So Choice on her blog and only have this to say…. if you are a woman and can exist while mastering even 80% of the things she’s listed for being an awesome girlfriend and are halfway attractive, I’ll treat you like a queen. If you look like Mia Sara did in the late 80’s, I will give up my vow never to get married again. Just a thought.

(Quest for the Golden Crab Bag via Boner Party)

Sorry it’s been a while. Nothing much has been going on then I saw this:

Note for the squeamish: Contains graphic images.

These people just never learn, do they? They’ve been making movies like this since, at least, I got my license and probably had live action versions before that or something. What the makers of these sort of horror flick PSAs don’t apparently remember is that teenagers (in particular) believe they are invincible and that nothing like this can happen to them. Passing retarded laws about texting while driving (as NC recently did) won’t help either because they are unenforceable. How does a cop know that you’re texting as opposed to dialing the phone? I’m not sure about the particulars of the NC law but my phone does a lot of things: is looking something up on google maps illegal? What about picking a new song? And is that also illegal on an iPod? If it is: how’s that different than changing the station on the radio?

The problem is that driving is inherently dangerous. If you can’t handle that, take public transport. Of course that’s dangerous too, so maybe you’d better just stay at home. IMO, the basic problem in the US is that they’ll give anybody that can fog a mirror a license but then want the roads to be safe and there’s a dichotomy there that can’t be resolved. You can have one or the other but not both. I happen to come down on the side of letting everybody drive who can pass a fairly rigorous exam that includes accident avoidance techniques  instead of letting somebody have a license after spending a few hours behind the wheel with a gym coach.  The time to learn how to control a skid is not while your car is about to start spinning out of control on the highway.

For instance, in the above, the girl that was doing the texting is a classic example of bad driving. What the producers apparently didn’t understand is that the driver she ran into also exhibited poor driving skills and as far as I’m concerned the third driver was the worst of the bunch. Both should have seen what was going on, anticipated,  and corrected to avoid.

(BBC News via Gizmodo)

So just to prove I can do it I’m posting this from the mall. I didn’t really need anything but there’s a good Greek place in the food court so I thought I’d stop and get some lunch and wallow in humanity for a little while.

While I was here I thought I’d thow out some random observations that aren’t really complete enough to deserve their own post.

Judgemental people suck. I think everybody is a little judgemental sometimes but people who go out of their way to categorize based on appearance aren’t worth the effort to dislike.

Downtown Raleigh has changed a lot in the last few years. I don’t know if opening back up Fayetteville Street had anything to do with it but there’s a lot going on down there now.