Stunning, and yet not surprising

In the last week, we've seen people falling over themselves to comment on the front page news that the Supreme Court struck down a D.C. handgun ban. Gun advocates rabidly fight to protect what they perceive as the "right" to keep and brandish what is, by design, a deadly weaon. And yet, this same week, an appalling story about how a woman sat in a New York emergency room for TWENTY-FOUR HOURS and then died was stuck in the back of the newspaper. The woman went through convulsions, collapsed and died all while other patients, security personnel and MEDICAL STAFF watched without lifting a finger. It's all on video tape.

Why don't we all put down our guns for a minute and consider the state of our right not to be killed from incompetence and apathy exhibited by our health care system?

We'll all live longer.

You know, in case you were wondering.

Slim Goodbody is alive! Or was recently, at least.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8475072/

At least he wasn't cited for speeding

A man in Brisbane, Australia, was found sleeping in his motorized wheelchair in the middle of the highway and got busted for drunk driving.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gBPtjaLOT3l5Nn5VDyl0XDN0DhawD91FOEL03

One of the cops also noted that one can be arrested for drunk-driving a horse. We're not sure which of you needs to be intoxicated to fall under the statute, however.

Coming Soon: "The Office: SeaWorld"

So I'm reading this story about how the Navy is doing hearing tests on whales. The type of whale? A Gervais' beaked whale. So was the actor/comedian Ricky Gervais named for the whale or the other way around?

I wonder about weird things.

Without it, we never would have gotten Elvis

It's the 50th anniversary of the debut of the hula hoop, the innocent toy that sent hips a-swivelin' the world around. To think, if there was no hula hoop, Elvis might have gone on "Ed Sullivan" and thrown a frisbee or watched a bad 3-D movie. His career, to be sure, would be over, but maybe he'd still be alive today.

Think about that. Video games might be cool, but plastic changed the world.

We don't want to know what they'll do with the inventor of the toothpaste tube

So the guy who invented the Pringles can died, and for his last wish, his ashes were placed in one of his cans.

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=71179

No, he didn't die of the fever for flavor of a Pringles.

Is it wrong that this story really makes me hungry for some chips?

Coming to Fox:

The Hot New Reality Show "Moltin' the Most"

Isn't it enough we obsess with botox and buying our teenage daughters boob jobs for graduation presents. Do we really need to corrupt the animal kingdom with visions of artificial perfection:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080604/ap_on_sc/sci_bird_testosterone