I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the concept of carbon offsetting. In case you’re not familiar with what that is, it’s basically a system that allows businesses and individuals to contribute financially to environmental projects such as forestation and renewable energy initiatives to compensate for things they’ve done that are considered detrimental to …
Author Archives: Steve Wettlaufer
You Learn Something New Every Day
Bow Hunter Learns A Lot About Bears In Six Seconds
Doing The Right Thing
ACLU Defends Nazi’s Right To Burn Down ACLU’s Headquarters
I Thought They Had Commandments For That
College courses seek to protect church tills from embezzlers
The Power Of Prayer
I thought this joke was pretty good, especially considering Carin’spostfrom the other day. In a small midwestern conservative town, there wasn’t a place to get a drink for miles around, so a local entrepreneur saw an opportunity: He started to build a tavern. Liking a “dry” town, the local church started a campaign to block …
Happy Valentine’s Day
Online Dating Helping Pathetic Women Get Their Hopes Crushed More Efficiently
Welcome To Wal-Mart. You Got Any Spare Change?
According to a recent survey conducted by police in Coos Bay, Oregon,the panhandlers that hang around outside of the local Wal-Mart make in a day what clerks inside make in a week. I’m not sure if I feel more shocked that this is allowed to happen in a so-called civilized society or guilty that I …
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I’ll Pry That $5 Out Of Your Cold, Dead Hands
Barbara Antonelliis a much more forgiving soul than I will ever, ever be. If I were having a heart attack in my doctor’s office and some stupid bitch receptionist was getting in the way of the people trying to save me so that she could collect the $5 payment I owed, I’d be demanding her …
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Come Out With Your Pants Up!
I’m not sure why I decided to readthis story about Calgary’s new public toilet,but I did and its got me curious. One of the features built into the thing is a 9 minute warning in the form of a light letting you know that it’s time to move it on out. If you stay another …
What Could Possibly Go Wro…Boom!
Quick question. Does the idea of a gas-pumping robot sound like a bad one to anybody else, or is it just me being silly? In case you’re wondering how the €75,000 technological miracle does its stuff, it has a database of vehicles, with their corresponding fuel cap designs and fuel types. Reuters elaborates: “A robotic …