Everyone’s all bent out of shape — but guess what — it’s not really illegal in Wisconsin

Long story short: a woman rented a limo and a hotel room for her 12 year old daughter’s birthday party. She served them “Mike’s Hard Lemonade” (A crime in itself, IMO), left a bunch of condoms around and jumped in the pool with her clothes on.

Skank, yes. Illegal — well, maybe. or maybe not.

Wisconsin is a state that really values it’s citizen’s right to drink whatever, and whenever they like. They have a law that allows parents to order booze served to their kids in any bar with impunity . The only thing this nitwit did wrong was not buying the kids a round of drinks at “Lucky Town Tap Room” instead of providing take-out drinks at the Hampton Inn.

Ok. I’m being a facetious. Milwaukee is a town of drinkers, and the baton is passed from generation to generation. This particular baton has rammed itself up the ass of this idiot mother — but personally, I think it should also be inserted into the rectums of the the parents who didn’t ask questions before they let their middle-school kids go to a co-ed hotel sleepover without asking questions and checking up throughout the night.

One Moron + more morons = lots of little morons.

Now we’re talking! Wisconsin State Legislature, are you listening?

Texas county to name drunk drivers on Twitter

IDG News Service – If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter.

That’s because the local district attorney’s office has decided to publish the names of those charged with driving while intoxicated (DWI) between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

Wisconsin has the third highest drunk driving fatality rate, and the most lenient DWI laws in the country.

More information from the Wall Street Journal:

And: TotalDUI blog:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinal: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Wearing my Red Santa Love Hat for UPS shipping today!

Had a fruitful day with UPS today. They delivered my Mombo’s brand new LCD TV er, Christmas present — on time, and trackable all the way (with free shipping from Newegg.com!)

I was going to ship two GInormous last-minute Christmas packages by USPS, which is my usual way, but hatefull USPS only lets you pre-pay and print labels for the expensive shipping methods like Priority Mail or Express Mail — forget about using Media Mail or Parcel Post unless you want to go wait in line at the post office!

I went to UPS.com and found out they will ship the boxes for half the price and double-fast (guaranteed Xmas Eve delivery). I prepaid and printed labels, no problem.

Small packages and first class mail, I’ll still use the USPS, but UPS now gets my business for big packages!

The Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites – Smashing Magazine

The alcohol industry doesn’t have to even try to get it right. Their product sells itself, especially to people who can’t read, and are too drunk to use a QWERTY keyboard.

Amazon.com is the new home of the weird, the creepy and the profane!

It’s like the Wild West out there. We independent book sellers moved in and did all the dirty work, setting up product pages, building links, enslaving the indigenous population—And soon giant agribusinesses, listing strip miners, and Big Lot department stores moved in, crowding the little guys out.

Lately, Amazon’s tried to reign in the small-time-sellers without infringing too much on the rights of their favored corporate sellers. That can only lead to one thing—Digital Anarchy!

Here are five intriguing examples of the ways Amazon sellers and buyers are dealing with encroaching marginalization.

1. A $38 dead skinned bunny rabbit? Anyone see Roman Polanski’s “Replusion“? Please, please, please—I beg you—scroll down and read the customer reviews. You will not be sorry. For example:

   These are NOT alive!, August 24, 2009
   By P. Breakfield IV “Tom”
   I’ll keep this short and sweet. We ordered one of these rabbits for our children this Easter and boy what a surprise. It is NOT a living rabbit. Someone has killed this rabbit and skinned it, I suppose for eating. Anyway, our children were traumatized and Easter is not the same holiday that it used to be for us. On the upside, we don’t have to fill their Easter baskets anymore as we told them the Easter bunny was killed by Amazon.

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