The Return of S&G

It's been a while - let's see if I can remember how to do this -

Yesterday in Manhattan, a 17.5 ton Snapple-sicle had an unscheduled meltdown, coating streets and sidewalks in a sticky goo. Most New Yorkers there said the only difference they noticed was the place smelled better than normal.

A 63-year old in Calif. made a court appearance but made no plea. He's thought to be the most prolific child molester of all times; police found notebooks listing over 36,000 entries. If he gets off, the IRS wants him since his record-keeping beats the shit outta anything they have now.

In Egypt, something incredible happened - a peaceful demonstration was held and the participants didn't get the shit beat out of them by the Army!! Mubarak must really be losing his grip.

The House of Reps passed the American Flag Protection Amendment. I don't think we need that, really. What we need is a wider interpretation of free speech which would cover such things as beating the shit out of one of the flag burners being adjudged as an intellicual argument. We could also allow burning crosses again, since free speech trumps hate speech.

Finally (about f'kin time I hear you say), the Wachovia Bank is going to be shipping its information tech jobs to India in the near future. I guess that if the personal identification of their customers gets released in India they'll be able to bury the evidence. My only question is: When are all these American corporations going to realize that countries like India and Bangladesh now have them by the balls? Now that they (and Indonesia and China and others) have the power to access (and maybe modify) the corp's crown jewels - or at least just shut their systems down completely, it puts this nation in a decidedly precarious position, don't it?