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Greetings and Salutations, People: And welcome to the first, non Mayan-scheduled day. Hope it’s going well for you. Merry Christmas to all, and more importantly, Happy Festivus Eve! This is Vertically Striped Radio, I am Craig Dodge, and let’s do this thing…

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Tweet of the Week:  

@ChaseMit
Sometimes I like to mix things up by going big and then also going home.

Things I liked this week:

Christmas Music

Getting a Christmas gift of tickets to the Broncos-Browns game tomorrow.

Today on VSR – It’s the Christmas show, and we’re doing Christmas right with a Magnificent Seven – 7 Worst Christmas Songs and we’re convening the He-Man Movie Watchers Club to discuss A Christmas Story.

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(Bring on Face) –

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

Fort Worth, TEXAS – A handcuffed burglary suspect has escaped from police in Texas - by driving off in their squad car.

Officers from White Settlement near Fort Worth had arrested 41-year-old Darren Porter last Friday on suspicion of breaking into an antiques shop.

But when they left him alone for a few minutes in the back of their car, he managed to roll down a window, reach out and open the door.

Video from a dashboard camera in another squad car shows him then climbing into the driver's seat and taking off.

The second police car then shot off in pursuit, but to no avail.

The antique shop owner, Kenny Boone, said it was a comical scene.

"It kind of reminded me of the Keystone cops," he joked. "They were all running for their police car to chase this guy. I shouldn’t say it was funny but it was kind of comical."

The police car was found abandoned in Fort Worth soon afterwards, but Porter was still at large on Tuesday morning.

White Settlement Police Department said the window switches in the back of their squad cars are supposed to be disabled.

But apparently not in this case.

Officers are now checking their other vehicles to make sure the back windows do not open.

Santa Cruz, ARGENTINA - An Argentinian woman is planning to marry the man convicted of killing her twin sister - but her mother is determined to stop the wedding.

Victor Cingolani is serving a 13-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend Johana Casas. The 19-year-old model's body was found with two gunshot wounds in 2010. Victor also happens to be engaged to Johana’s twin sister Edith.

Edith and Victor are planning to hold the service in a prison in Santa Cruz and the nuptials are drawing intense media interest.

Edith, age 22, said her husband-to-be is innocent and described him as somebody "who would not hurt a fly". However, her mother, Marcelina Orellana, has vowed to do everything she can to prevent the marriage going ahead.

"We know this will be hard because she is an adult, but we will go to court to try to have her examined by a psychiatrist," she said.

"As far as we are concerned, she does not know what she is doing."

Edith has accused her mother of abandoning her and her sister, and said: "She cannot say I need a psychiatrist because I am fully aware of what I am doing."

Victor, who insists he is not guilty of the murder, added: "I loved Johana, but I love Edith. I have a beautiful bride and I am going to marry her."

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

Lloyd Dobler’s Boombox

I am anti-Santa, but pro-Christmas.

I’ve explained my position many times, but it’s nice when someone you respect agrees with you.

Flula on Santa: (Clip 49)

Magnificent Seven - 7 Worst Christmas songs:

Honorable Mention:

Bar Side Rambling Christmas Song (Clip 41)

7. Hey Santa – Carnie and Wendy Wilson – Ugh. Just ugh.

6. Cherry Cherry Christmas – Neil Diamond – Neil channeling the spirit of Dr Suess

5. Please Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk this Christmas – John Denver – So ridiculous, you’d almost think it was from Saturday Night Live

4. Christmas Song – The Chimpmunks – So Squeaky

3. Santa Baby – Madonna – So whiny

2. Last Christmas – Wham – So cheeseball

1. Ay Ay Ay, It’s Christmas – Ricky Martin and Rosie O’Donnell – This song makes one question their belief in a loving God.

If you’re going to do a terrible Christmas song, do it RIGHT!

Steve Maudlin – O Holy Night (Clip 50)

He-Man Movie Watchers Club: (Into Clip 12)

A Christmas Story-

Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time.

Best movie ever without an actual plot. The only other true example I can find is Forrest Gump. Clearly A Christmas Story is a superior film…even if The Academy gave Forrest Gump a Best Picture Oscar.

What makes it one of my Christmas favorites is that it doesn’t idealize Christmas. The characters in the story are all very flawed and the world they live in is dark. There is a complete kid vs. adult aura about the entire world.

Memorable Visuals:

Randy so bundled up he can’t put his arms down

Flick gets his tongue stuck to the flagpole

Ralphie with soap in his mouth

Ralphie in the pink bunny suit

Leg lamp in the front window

Bumpus Hounds steal the turkey

Chinese waiters singing “Fa ra ra ra ra”

Best Secondary Character:

Christmas Tree Salesman

Mrs. Shields

Scut Farkus - When the character of Scut Farkas first appears, the "Wolf" music from Sergei Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" plays in the background. The name "Farkas" is derived from the Hungarian word for "wolf".

Grover Dill – the toadie

Flick - For the scene in which Flick's tongue sticks to the flagpole, a hidden suction tube was used to safely create the illusion that his tongue had frozen to the metal.

Department Store Santa Claus

Kid with Goggles in the Santa line

Trivia and Notes:

Movie is set in Hammond, Indiana in the 1940s. Filmed in Cleveland, Ohio with the school scenes filmed at Victoria School in St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada.

The Orphan Annie radio decoder pin that Ralphie receives is the 1940 "Speedomatic" model, indicating that the movie takes place in December, 1940. Different decoder badges were made each year from 1935-1940. By 1941, the decoders were made of paper.

Jean Shepherd's book "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash", which the film is partly based on, is a collection of short stories that Jean Shepherd wrote for "Playboy" magazine during the 1960s, including the stories about the tongue sticking to the flagpole, and eating Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

Ralphie says that he wanted the "Red Ryder BB Gun" 28 times.

Radio Announcer for Little Orphan Annie sounds like Marv Albert

There is a debate about when the film takes place. Evidence seems to point to 1939 because of The Wizard of Oz references. The decoder ring points to 1940. However, if you look at the calendar on the wall (during the first dinner sequence), you can clearly see the first of December falls on a Friday. December 1st fell on a Friday in 1939, not 1940 as was previously accepted.

The Chinese restaurant is named 'Bo Ling's'. There is a neon sign across the top of the storefront that reads 'Bowling', except the 'W' is not lit.

In 2005, the original home used for the exterior shots of the family home was put up for auction on eBay and avid fan of the movie Brian Jones managed to purchase the home directly from the seller for $150,000.00 USD. Jones then spent the following year restoring the home to the way it looked on screen. The exterior of the home was completely restored and the interior was renovated to match the interior of the home shown in the movie. (Parts of the interior was actually filmed in a Toronto studio) On November 25th, 2006, the famous home finally opened its doors as a tourist attraction. Jones spent close to $500,000.00 USD in preparation for this grand opening. In addition, Jones also purchased the house next door and converted it to a gift shop and museum dedicated to the film and the house. The real house used during filming can be found at 3159 W 11th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Pictures and a "Street View" of the house can be seen on Google Maps. A nearby street that intersects with W. 11th St is Clark Avenue.

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Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Colorado Christmas – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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Greetings and Salutations, People:

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Sadness bearing down this week:

Sonia with cancer

Colleen’s nephew with Trisomy 13

Javon Belcher of the Kansas City Chiefs committing a Murder-Suicide this morning

Tweet of the Week:  

@KenJennings
"Why can't anything be easy?!?" I moaned as my real-time handheld connection to all the world's information briefly ran slower than usual.

Things I liked this week:

Life of Pi

My wife being WRONG about tomorrow’s weather for the Broncos-Buccaneers game (According to forecasts)

Today on VSR – I try to work out some of my inner demons as I present a Magnificent Seven list of things that make me act in a way I shouldn’t and a story about one of the weirdest lawsuits I’ve ever heard that actually WON.

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(Bring on Face) –

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

Portales, NEW MEXICO - A university graduate, apparently feeling guilty over a student prank years ago, has sent a box of toilet paper to repay his alma mater for loot taken from a dormitory.

Eastern New Mexico University received the yuletide gift box this week along with a Christmas card and written apology.

The box contained five packages of 16 rolls of two-ply, septic-safe tissue - a total of 80 rolls.

The anonymous writer apologized for stealing bathroom tissue years ago and said a new dedication to Christian faith led to the deed.

The handwritten message read: "Years ago when I was a young immature college student I took toilet paper from your dormitory as a prank.

"I apologize for that and offer this case.”

"Jesus Christ has made such a difference in my life and has prompted me to repay for any sins I've done even from so long ago.”

"God Bless and Merry Christmas."

It was unclear whether the gift itself was a prank. But university officials say "all is forgiven".

"We express our admiration to the anonymous donor for their integrity and character," Wendel Sloan, director of the school's media relations said.

"We never even knew that the toilet tissue was missing, but thank our graduate for doing what they thought was right."

The university said it is donating the TP to a Christian children's home, since the rolls did not fit their bathroom dispensers.

Staten Island – NEW YORK - Shop and office workers in New York's Staten Island spotted a strange sight as they glanced out of their windows.

Outside, in a shopping centre car park, a zebra was seen trotting down the road accompanied on the jaunt by a pony pal.

Video of the runaway equines was captured by shop owner Zachary Osher.

"I was sitting at my desk at about 9.20am when I saw a zebra and pony run back and forth across the street, almost getting hit by a car," he told SILive.com.

"About 30 seconds later, I saw two men in dark black suits carrying lassoes running across the street."

He added: "I have no idea how it (the zebra) got there ... I figured (the men with lassoes) knew what to do."

A police spokesman said the zebra and miniature horse were corralled and returned to a petting zoo.

NORTHERN CHINA - So, here’s the scenario: A man from northern China meets attractive woman and they marry. All is well until attractive woman gives birth to a baby girl. A baby so ugly that her husband finds the child so repulsive to look at he’s convinced his wife’s genes are responsible for the ugly baby. So, he files for divorce on the grounds of “false pretences” and wins a six-figure fine from her, the result of his lawsuit.

Sounds impossible, right? Strangely, it’s the true story of Jian Feng and his now ex-wife who remains unnamed. After their baby girl was born, the baby was so ugly that Feng was certain his wife had cheated on him with another man.

He demanded a DNA test thinking it would prove his wife had become impregnated by some other man and the baby wasn’t his. But, when the test results came back it proved Feng was in fact the biological father, he made the choice every father makes—to apologize and accept his daughter as is.

Oh, wait. That’s not what he did. He decided to sue his wife to prove his ugly child was all her fault genetically. You would think any judge would have laughed this case right out of court, but again, not what happened.

                               

Feng’s wife admitted that before she met her husband-to-be she had $100,000 worth of cosmetic surgery performed in South Korea. This backed up Feng’s claim of “false pretenses” that by not revealing her plastic surgery to him before the marriage, she tricked him. The judge sided with Feng and ordered the wife to pay him $120,000.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on the Whale

Band name of the week:

Headline: Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists – Band name of the week: Kung Fu Nuns

Lottery Fever Grips America:

Lebron bought some tickets

Simpson’s Game –

Homer’s Task: Walk around feeling superior – Mocking Hipsters.

I can’t help but feeling superior. I don’t like that about me.

Magnificent Seven – 7 things people do that make me feel superior. (Even though I’m not.)

7. Listen to Country Music.

6. Drive slow in the left lane.

5. Be fat

4. Buy Lotto Tickets

3. Wear Flat Billed Hats

2. Watch Reality TV

1. Be Stupid

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Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Dear and the Headlights – I’m not crying, You’re not crying, Are you?

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

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Greetings and Salutations, People: Living life like a king! I am Craig Dodge and THIS is Vertically Striped Radio. And just for the record: I hate the Baylor Bears. The Brittany Griner loving, Basketball player putting a hit out on another basketball player, RG3 worshipping Baylor Bears. At 5-5, those bums somehow managed to ruin the most promising K-State season ever. I’m still annoyed.

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Tweet of the Week:  

@juliussharpe
You can stop advertising pizza and beer during football. People who watch football know about them.

*Ducks quacks don't echo. No one knows why. – NOT TRUE

Things I liked this week:

Thanksgiving: Best Holiday of them all!

Going to a Nuggets game

An article I read from a writer named Michael Stusser from Seattle about his week of gorging on social media followed up by a week of doing EVERYTHING offline.

Today on VSR – Turkey: Just say No! Magnificent Seven things we are thankful for, and if we get to it…Million Dollar Ideas!

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(Bring on Face) –

Is the NFC East the worst division in football now?

The whole world has agreed to just pretend like the 12-0 Ohio State Buckeyes don’t exist because several members who played there in the past sold memorabilia for tattoos?

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

BOISE, Idaho - A 22-year-old man is due in court in Idaho over the death of a patas monkey at Zoo Boise.

Michael J Watkins faces at least two charges for allegedly taking the monkey and beating it so severely that it later died.

His father, Jerry Watkins, has defended his son to the Idaho Statesman, saying he is "not a malicious monkey murderer".

He said it was a drunken prank. His son was trying to get a picture with the animals.

"I'm thinking the monkey attacked him and he just tried to defend himself," Jerry Watkins said. "I don't think he ever intended to kill it. He's just not that kind of guy."

Authorities allege the suspect entered Zoo Boise on Saturday night, took a patas monkey from its cage and beat it so severely it later died of blunt-force trauma to its head and neck.

A security guard frightened away the intruders, and then discovered the injured animal.

Michael J Watkins went to a local hospital for injuries to his upper body sometime after the incident.

Police say he was visiting Boise with friends over the weekend from his home in Fruitland, about 60 miles away.

Idaho law allows prosecutors to bring a grand theft charge against someone accused of killing livestock or other animals valued at more than $150.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - By 2009, James Washington believed he had gotten away with a 1995 murder, but then he had a heart attack, and on his deathbed, in a fit of remorse, he confessed to a confidant. (“I have to get something off my conscience,” he told a guard in the jailhouse where he was serving time for a lesser, unrelated offense.) However, Washington miraculously recovered from the heart attack and tried to take back his confession, but prosecutors in Nashville, Tenn., were unfazed. They used it to augment the sparse evidence from 1995, and in October 2012 the now-healthier Washington was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 51 more years in prison.

NEW MILFORD, Connecticut – Michael Carrier, 45, was arrested for soliciting prostitution in New Milford, Conn., in August—not resulting from a police sting, which is usually how arrests for that crime are made. In Carrier’s case, he was disturbing other customers at a Friendly’s restaurant because, being hard of hearing, he was shouting to the prostitute the terms of their prospective business arrangement.

SYRACUSE, New York - Arthur Bundrage, 28, was arrested in Syracuse, N.Y., in October after he returned to the Alliance Bank—which he had just robbed minutes earlier—because he discovered that the employee had given him less than the $20,000 his demand note ordered. Officers arrived to find Bundrage standing by the front doors, trying to get back in.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

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Band name of the week:

Malicious Monkey Murder

Headline: Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists – Band name of the week: Kung Fu Nuns

Clip 80 – Flula – Turkey is not MVP

Top 7 Things I’m thankful for:

1. Thankful for my Family

2. Thankful for Beer

3. Thankful for iPhone

4. Thankful for Javale McGee

5. Thankful I’m not a Detroit Lions fan – Challenge Flag fiasco from Thanksgiving

6. Thankful I don’t have to wake up at 4:45 every morning

7. Thankful for Zoos

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Lord Huron – Ends of the Earth

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

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Greetings and Salutations, People:

Tweet of the Week:  

Void: I was off Twitter this week.

I’d like to congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs for taking a lead for the first time this season.

Things I liked this week:

NFL Tie – 49ers and Rams

Proud of Luke for his Anti-Santa stand.

Today on VSR –

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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

CINCINNATI (AP) — A judge's offer to allow an Ohio drug defendant the chance to stay out of prison if he'd give up marijuana might have just gone up in smoke.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Melba Marsh says she was astonished by the response from 19-year-old Damaine Mitchell on Wednesday.

Mitchell told the judge he likes smoking weed and staying off it so he could stay out of prison would be "a challenge." He told the judge he could try to quit but made a request: Could he "at least get one more joint in?"

The judge quickly said no. She wants Mitchell back in court next week before she decides what to do with his trafficking case.

LOOMIS, Calif. (AP) — A prankster is changing the message on an electronic traffic warning sign in Northern California.

The sign is supposed to tell people that a road in the California city of Loomis will be closed for pipeline construction.

Instead, it read, "Smoke Weed Everyday" last week. It has also read, "Caution Loose Gorilla!"

Placer County Water Agency Senior Engineer Tony Firenzi told the Bee it took skill to change the message. The unknown hacker needed a keyboard and had to bypass some systems.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona woman, in despair at the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama, ran down her husband with the family car in suburban Phoenix on Saturday because he failed to vote in the election, police said on Monday.

Holly Solomon, 28, was arrested after running over husband Daniel Solomon following a wild chase that left him pinned underneath the vehicle.

Daniel Solomon, 36, was in critical condition at a local hospital, but is expected to survive, Gilbert police spokesman Sergeant Jesse Sanger said.

Police said Daniel Solomon told them his wife became angry over his "lack of voter participation" in last Tuesday's presidential election and believed her family would face hardship as a result of Obama winning another term.

Witnesses reported the argument broke out on Saturday morning in a parking lot and escalated. Mrs Solomon then chased her husband around the lot with the car, yelling at him as he tried to hide behind a light pole, police said. He was struck after attempting to flee to a nearby street.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

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Band name of the week:

Damp Drizzly November

Bomb Sniffing Mice?

Teams of highly trained mice could be used to sniff out explosives and drugs at airports.

The system is being pioneered by Israeli firm Tamar Group.

It uses specially trained mice equipped with biological sensors which detect changes in their heart rate, breathing, and other factors.

The animals are trained to react when they smell explosives or drugs and their reactions are recorded by a computer.

If the mice detect something inspectors or security officers are then alerted.

Tamar Group CEO Boaz Hayun, told the Times of Israel: "Animals' senses are far more well developed than humans', and more well developed than even the  most advanced security sensors created by man.

 Sensors will alert staff if explosives or drugs are detected

"Our system takes animals and turns them into biological sensors, using specially-trained laboratory mice and measuring their reactions to outside stimuli.

"They are placed at the entry point in a security checkpoint or installation, and when they detect something that appears suspicious, the sensor records their physical reactions and communicates it to a computer that analyzes the data and alerts security personnel."

The system is on show at a security conference in Tel Aviv.

Top 7 Useless things:

1. A white crayon

2. Toilet Carpet – Fuzzy Toilet Seat Cover

3. A Cat

4. Paperweights

5. Blockbuster Video Stores

6. 2012 Magnetic NHL Schedule

7. Segways

Rabbit Ear Antennae

The newspaper someone else leaves on the back of the toilet

Calculators

Leaf Blower

My two years of Algebra from High School

Encyclopedia

Spelling Tests

Hood Ornaments

A Panda Express coupon

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Todd Snider – Fortunate Son

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!

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Greetings and Salutations, People:

…THIS is Vertically Striped Radio.

Just googled “Does farting hurt a spacesuit?” this is the kind of research that goes into VSR.

Tweet of the Week:  

@shariv67
My home security system is just 15 motion-activated Big Mouth Billy Basses.

Things I liked this week:

-Having two days off

-The end of political commercials

-Prop 64 passed

-New Orleans Bananas

Break-up with Scar-Jo

Ellie – I hate black!

Luke – Going to the bathroom

Today on VSR – The internet has changed the world…we’ll look at how it might not be entirely a good thing and my upcoming personal challenge.

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Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

Walton, KENTUCKY - Bobby McDonald would be preparing to take his hard-earned seat on Walton City Council had Tuesday's ballot not ended in a tie.

All he needed to defeat his nearest opponent Olivia Ballou for the sixth available place was one more vote…His wife Katie's vote, to be precise.

She called him election night with ten minutes to go before the polls closed to say she had not managed to get to the polls, and he told her not to worry.

“What harm could it do?” he reasoned.

"She works extra hours at night, goes to school and we have three kids, so I don't blame her," Mr. McDonald told the Kentucky Enquirer.

"She woke up about ten minutes before the polls closed and asked if she should run up, but I told her I didn't think one vote would matter."

His fate is now likely to be decided by the toss of a coin.

"You never think it will come down to one vote, but I'm here to tell you that it does," lamented Bobby, after ending up with 669 votes.

A man who took his ex-girlfriend's pregnancy test for a joke discovered he had testicular cancer after his positive result was flagged up online.

The man's friend had posted a comic drawing on the Reddit website showing how surprised he was at finding he was an expectant male.

But an alert reader suggested there might be another, serious reason for the reading.

"You may have testicular cancer. Get to an oncologist, tell them you took a pregnancy test and it came out positive," the person wrote.

The joker took the advice and went to his doctor, who found a small tumour on his right testicle.

His friend has since posted an update on what happened.

He said: "To be honest with everyone, I assumed it was nothing, considering a pregnancy test finding cancer seemed a bit odd.

"But I guess there is a hormone the test picks up that the tumour produces, and that is why the test said he was pregnant."

The friend added: "So both of us want to say, 'Thank you.' And, in all seriousness, if you are male, check yourself for testicular cancer regularly. If you're a girl, test yourself for breast cancer regularly."

The connection with the pregnancy test and the finding of testicular cancer is that some testicular cancers produce the same hormone - beta hCG - that is tested for in pregnancy kits.

CLEVELAND, OHIO - A woman in Ohio has been ordered to wear an 'idiot' sign after driving on a footpath to avoid a school bus picking up children.

Shena Hardin, 32, will have to stand at a junction as a warning to others, after she was repeatedly caught on camera driving dangerously.

The bus driver captured her in the act on his mobile phone and then contacted police, who lay in wait on September 11.

A judge at Cleveland Municipal Court told Hardin she would have to wear a sign saying: "Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus."

Hardin will have to complete the humiliating punishment between 7.45am and 8.45am on two days next week.

She was also ordered to pay $250 in court costs and her driver’s license was suspended for 30 days.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

How the Internet Changed the World:

January 1st, 1994 – It is estimated that there were 623 Websites

“There’s a broad feeling among technologists that technology itself is going to improve, come what may. That computing power, bandwidth, storage capacity, even our ability to pack pixels into screens, is going to keep improving.

At the same time, there is worry that humans and their institutions will not adapt as well as they might under these circumstances. We’re slow to adjust, and the technologies themselves are introducing so many new elements to life that people will potentially have a hard time adjusting to that. There’s a sense that people are marching not necessarily blindly, but certainly without full knowledge, into a future that they don’t fully know. They’re thrilled with their gadgets but they don’t know what their gadgets are doing to them.”

-Socially – make us all social morons

-Killed the distribution industry: Postal Service, Music Industry, Radio, Movies, Shopping, Encyclopedias (Google Brown)

Created jobs and new industries: eBay, Amazon, IT Industry

-Eliminated “Wondering”

-Created an even more instant society

-Made it harder and harder to erase an embarrassing past

-Memory has become less valuable, and perhaps we are forgetting how to remember things as we let our gadgets and the internet remember for us.

-Created a false sense of experiencing the world. (There is something to be said for “being there”)

-Actual analog letters arriving in the mail are now confusing.

-Made us fatter

-Content used to matter and give one power, now EVERYONE has content, so what gives one power is not owning content you have created, but rather having the ability to draw an audience to your particular content.

-Lowered the public discourse: So many people are sick of the election that is about to happen because of how uncivilized the discussion is getting…surely at least part of that is due to Americans becoming used to sharing their opinion online while having the negative reinforcement of displeasing others be severely lessened by not interacting in person. In short, the internet is making us social retards.

-Created new ways to waste money: If you had told someone ten years ago that spending twenty dollars for “Facebook Credits” was a thing that would happen…how would you even go about explaining what you were talking about?

-Killed privacy and anonymity

-Made the word Spam go from having 1 annoying meaning to 2 annoying meanings

-Made the world smaller. Before, I would never have known Australians, now I am amused or annoyed by one on a near daily basis.

-Changed how people cheat – Up to a quarter of divorces in the US are now at least partially blamed on Facebook

Simmons is out on Football – Clip 82

Vertically Striped Music Recommendation:

Miniature Tigers – Tell it to the Volcano

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!