Weblog Sin Pies

By Charley Daniels

I realized today that it’s the time of year once again for me to roll out my joke about the day after Thanksgiving being the busiest day of the year for shopping AND for the sewage-treatment industry. That’s it, basically. That’s the joke.

I’ll let you digest it for a second.

Hey, are you in the mood for something that’s actually funny? If the answer is yes (and I can’t believe it wouldn’t be) you should check out these fake Craigslist postings from Kasper Hauser. This is the part where you tell me those are old and blah blah blah, but they’re still funny, and now they are also more numerous. Enjoy. (Via John Hodgman.)

Also in the “actually funny” department comes New Stereotypes. Like the name implies, it’s stereotypes re-imagined. They’re so much funnier than actual stereotypes. (Thanks Kiala.)

Sometimes you might notice that the ad above the header just says, “Your ad here.” If that’s the case, don’t worry. I have other sources of income.

Charley Daniels

Frsno Bee: SoCal court reinstates ‘men only’ sex charge against woman

An appeals court reinstated a charge of indecent exposure against a woman who disrobed in front of a 14-year-old boy.

The three-member panel overturned a ruling by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong, who had dismissed charges against Alexis Luz Garcia last year, ruling that the law making it a misdemeanor for someone to expose “his person” didn’t apply to women.

The gist is the kid was being noisy, the neighbor punished him by exposing herself. There are a lot of great things happening here. Interestingly, the funniest part to me isn’t that she considers the sight of her naked body a punishment. That’s actually quite sad. What I’m most curious about is that there’s a person somewhere whom we have entrusted to uphold the law of the land, and the dude thinks indecent exposure applies only to men.

Prosecutors said the boy’s parents called police after the woman threatened to disrobe every time the boy played basketball.

And Riverside County Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong dismissed the case. Why? No penises involved. Makes sense, right? Considerations: Is this his way of protesting the lack of a gender-neutral third-person pronoun in English? Is he one of these straight-as-an-arrow dudes who finds female nudity beautiful but male nudity immoral? Is he some sort of smart ass?

Luckily the appeals court has more sense. Well, maybe not, but at least they read the whole law before issuing a decision:

In a ruling issued Aug. 28, the appeals panel noted that another section of state law says that “words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter.”

“We can find no logical or reasonable basis for concluding women are incapable of committing the crime of indecent exposure,” the panel wrote in its 13-page decision.

Judge Armstrong must have skimmed over that section.

By Charley Daniels

Thanks to Keizer, for making Oregon look like a state full of prudes. People aren’t like that anywhere else in Oregon, I swear. Well, most other places they aren’t like that. Okay, most of the places you’d want to be aren’t like that. Yeah.

Via Defamer

By Charley Daniels

A great lede from the “fair and balanced” network:

Fox News: Al Gore Obtains Advance Copy of ‘Sopranos’ Finale

Former Vice President Al Gore hasn’t stopped believing he can get special favors for being a political figure. The New York Times reports he got an advance copy of ‘The Sopranos’ finale from Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount and executive producer of the show.

It’s so like those Democrats to use their political clout to get early peeks at TV shows that us red-blooded, rock-ribbed Republicans wait for like the rest of the people.

By Charley Daniels

The CompUSA story has a happy ending. But not because CompUSA is a decent company. Digg got hold of the original Lost Remote post, and you can guess what happened after that. Viva la revolution, y’all!

Hey, 10 years ago CompUSA wouldn’t have refunded the guy his money. But it turns out there is such a thing as bad publicity, and it works! Occasionally. Take the news yesterday that CBS is likely going to renew Jericho, a show that was basically dead in the water coming out of upfronts last month. The fans weren’t having that. They sent the network lots of nuts — thousands of pounds by many accounts — which on the surface seems completely idiotic, but there is a story behind the significance. I’m not going to tell that story, just trust me.

Anyway, you can imagine CBS’s nut storage facilities filled rather quickly, and the squirrels were getting to be a problem (CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler is allergic to squirrels). This last part may or may not be true.

The point is, the network caved, or is caving, sources say, and CompUSA righted one of its wrongs, all thanks to the online community. And maybe squirrels.

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