Let’s just hope she has nine lives, too

One of the things I’ve always admired most about the dimwitted — a group that by no means precludes me, mind you — is the way one person’s stupidity frequently begets even more idiocy on the part of others. A perfect case in point is the brouhaha going on right now in England over the actions of one insignificant woman who did one very dumb thing.

The woman, Mary Bale, a 45-year-old bank worker from the town of Stoke, achieved infamy earlier this week when a video of her dropping a cat in a trash bin was posted on the Internet. Continue reading »

Tweet your way into the historical record

I am, admittedly, pretty far behind the times when it comes to technology and social networking. I have an outdated cell phone that I only use to make calls. I have an iPod Touch that I only use to listen to music, and I have a Facebook account that I visit about once a month and have yet to update the status of.

Oh, I suppose I know how to send text messages with my phone, but I try to refrain from doing so, as I consider texting by anyone who isn’t a girl in junior high school to be exceptionally lame. And if I absolutely had to I guess I could figure out how to get online with my iPod, although I honestly didn’t know I could download apps for it until about a month ago. Continue reading »