One of those “Are you &^%$ing kidding me??” stories for the day:

“A heated debate raged in the Swedish blogosphere on Monday after an eight-year-old boy’s failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament.

The policy at the boy’s school in the southern town of Lund was that all children (or all the boys or all the girls) had to be invited to parties when their invitations were handed out in class.

When a teacher noticed that two children had been left out of a party list, she promptly confiscated all the invitations, according to Sydsvenskan.”

I’m so glad my tender self wasn’t living in Sweden during my grade school years. Considering the ratio of bullies-to-friends back in those days was like 50 to 1, my righteous butt-cheeks would have been stomped by 100 bullies right in my own home.

Actually, something like that did happen anyway, one hot summer afternoon when for some reason I was being chased by about 20 angry kids. I pedaled home furiously and managed to make it into my backyard, but they followed me in anyway. We had a pool, and when they saw my parents weren’t responding even though I was screaming at the top of my lungs for help, they decided to toss me in.

This was after my parents had drained the pool of all water too.

So I ended up lying there in the sand for a while, moaning and groaning and wondering why my life sucked so bad.

Ahhhh, memories.

Tee hee…

…Lifelock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and he knew it wouldn’t, because the service had failed even him.

Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses at least 20 times using Davis’ Social Security number, though some of the applications may have been rejected because data in them didn’t match what the Social Security Administration had on file.

Davis acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that his stunt has led to at least 87 instances in which people have tried to steal his identity, and one succeeded: a guy in Texas who duped an online payday loan operation last year into giving him $500 using Davis’ Social Security number. (Source: EFAULT&CTIME=2008-05-22-07-09-52″>Wired News)

I really have no comment other than to say there really is no such thing as security, and greedy lawyers totally suck the big one.

You know that saying where young girls are “sugar and spice and everything nice?”

Complete load of crap.

Of course I’ve known this to be true ever since my 12 year old bootingtocks would get chased home by a gang of cheerleaders each and every day after school. Let me tell you something, there’s a reason some girls like to grow their fingernails long, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with cosmetics.

Though I have to admit, I’ve never gone up against the kind of ferocity such as what happened there in Florida (it’s always Florida too.) It wasn’t just watching this poor girl getting beat down by a mob of flip-flop wearing teens that I found so disturbing (along with the painful memories it brought back), but just how coldly calculated it all was. They basically kidnapped her, brought her to the house, then had a throwdown while look-outs were stationed outside to make sure no one interrupted the beating.

If you ask me, that seems to be an appropriate rite of passage a teenage girl might take if she wanted to be a divorce attorney someday, except that the morons here videotaped the whole thing and were actually planning to upload the vid to YouTube. No wonder people refer to the state as Floriduuuuuuh.

All because somebody supposedly dissed somebody else on a MySpace page (of course.)

Oh, by the way, if you’re reading this and you happen to have a MySpace page, you suck and I hate you. I don’t care if I don’t know anything else about you, I hate you, hate you, hate you, even if you gave me a million dollars I’d still hate you (I’d keep the money though.)

Giants Beat Packers in OT: Advance to Super Bowl!

Man, what a ride!!!

What happened to the Giants that gave up 90 points to Dallas AND the Packers the beginning of the season? The Giants that came oh so close to falling apart at the seams, with more holes in their defense than swiss cheese? The Giants team that became so unlovable not even their fans could stand them?

All of a sudden they win 6 straight, then 2007 becomes 2008 and they take the Patriots to the brink, beat the Bucs, beat the Cowboys in Dallas, and now the Pack on their own frozen turf???

Who ARE these guys????

There’s nothing quite as hilarious as watching a bunch of Cowgirls fans bawling their eyes out over their upset loss to the Giants, even if it is in jest:

I don’t expect that the Giants will be able to pull off another upset victory against Green Bay next week, but fortunately I happen to like the Packers, and after the kind of year Brett Favre’s had, the man has earned it.

Well this is an interesting concept: a new media network called ChatterJam.com is offering word of mouth services for companies who want to sell goods to a Christian demographic, and who are also looking for valuable feedback on their products. Members of ChatterJam (called Jammers) would receive and test sample products before they are released to the general public, then offer up their impressions and opinions. Membership is free too.

It sounds like fun, and if anything it would give Christians a chance to positively influence and promote faith based markets. And not a moment too soon, since heaven knows any new Christian dating site that gets launched in the future would certainly benefit from my input.