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By Dave Hitt on Mar 22, 2010 in Religion | 4 Comments
In North Carolina a high school showed up with a piece of red duct tape across his mouth. “Silence for Christ” was written on it. He was suspended when he refused to remove it. I’m not sure, but I think I was in tenth grade when I went to a class with a 45 record […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 14, 2010 in Amusing, Politics | 0 Comments
As you probably know by now the Texas school board has revised their educational guidelines so severely they’re going to have to put “educational” in quotation marks. Phil Plait made fun of them, then, on Facebook, reacted to people whining about it. In the ensuing conversation I made a comment about the Moron Badge of […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 12, 2010 in Politics | 0 Comments
Note to non-US readers: Knowing a few facts about the state of Mississippi will make the following story more understandable. The sole purpose of Mississippi is to keep Alabama off the bottom of every quality of life list. Whenever you see a chart of US states comparing unwed births, high school dropouts or average number […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 11, 2010 in Big Brother, Nanny Nation, Politics, Yeah - That'll Work | 8 Comments
The New York Legislature is considering a bill that would make it a criminal offense for restaurant chefs to add salt to food. Yes, you read that right. Once again, the absurdity of real life makes satire obsolete. This is exactly what happens when you let the nanny camel get its nose in the tent. […]
By Dave Hitt on Mar 8, 2010 in Bad Business | 1 Comment
Marketing failures can teach you as much, if not more, as marketing successes. I just received an e-mail from a company I’ve done business with. The headline was “Free Ground Shipping from <Company Name>. I opened it and saw a very attractive ad, which I clicked. Instead of taking me to http://companyname.com/ it loaded http://marketing.companyname.com/ […]
By Dave Hitt on Feb 24, 2010 in QH Podcasts | 6 Comments
Check out the latest Quick Hitts Podcast: Figuring Our The Tea Party. Are they a great thing that will save us from creeping socialism, or a mass of misfits and whack-a-loons?
By Dave Hitt on Feb 23, 2010 in Nanny Nation, Politics | 0 Comments
I’ve watched a few CPAC speeches, and they reminded me of townhall.com: It was a combination of brilliant thinkers and mouth-breathing wing-nuts. It was encouraging to see they invited a gay rights group, and even more encouraging when a wing-nut who condemned them for it was booed off the stage. But it would be better […]