From a Fox News story: 300 Irate Chinese Taxi Drivers on Strike Smash Cars, Demand Crackdown on Unlicensed Cabs Sunday, November 30, 2008 BEIJING — About 300 taxi drivers went on strike in a southern Chinese city, smashing cars and demanding a crackdown on unlicensed taxis in the latest protest against illegal taxi competition in [...]
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Instant karma’s gonna get you
Posted in China, Karma, News, Signs of the Apocalypse, tagged China, News, Signs of the Apocalypse, Weird on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground,
Posted in Culture, Idiocracy, Signs of the Apocalypse on August 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
From Fox News this morning. Submitted here without comment, mainly because I can’t post a video of my head shaking in disgust. ============= Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts Thursday, August 30, 2007 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were [...]
I Can Haz Sidecar?
Posted in Blogging, Family, Signs of the Apocalypse on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason known only to the gods of teh int3rw3bz, one of the most consistently popular blogs on WordPress is a place where people send in terminally cute pictures of cats (they allow token other animals, but it’s mainly a feline blog) that have been “capped” – tagged with sickeningly cutesy captions. The blog [...]
Learning Experience
Posted in Idiocracy, Learning Experience, Signs of the Apocalypse, Teachers on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Un-effin’-believable. When I read the news blurb the other day, it seemed so far-fetched that I figured there had to be a mistake. Or that the news was not reporting all of it, and there was some “rest of the story” that would, in context, help everything to make sense. I was wrong. In case [...]
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