Amphibious Human Not So Great At Terrestrial Navigation
by Sara K. Smith
- Mudslides triggered by a recent typhoon in Taiwan have probably killed around 500 people. [Voice of America]
- Speaking of disasters, a fire near Santa Cruz, CA continues to rage unabated. [San Jose Mercury News]
- Did an air traffic controller who was on a personal phone call at the time a helicopter and a small plane collided over the Hudson have anything to do with that unfortunate crash? Who cares, that person has been suspended just in case. [Sky News]
- The state of California will pay off nearly $2 billion worth of embarrassing IOUs a month early, on September 4. Green shoots! [New York Times]
- At least two European economies — those of France and Germany — appear to be headed out of recession. [Washington Post]
- Champion swimmer Michael Phelps is not so great at driving! He crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a Honda Accord last night in Baltimore, but it doesn’t appear that anybody was seriously injured. [Baltimore Sun]
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Thanks a lot Michael Phelps. Now marijuana will never be legalized.
phelps was too high
Have you ever tried to drive a car with legs 1 1/2 feet long and a foot foot torso with 38′ wingspan?
[re=386192]dum librul[/re]: Five foot torso, moran!
Giving the Wonkette team a heads up- it is Friday so I will need a Mark Sanford story before days end-unless you can produce a definitive Palin divorce or death/serious illness of a Fox “news” whore.
Silly Phelps, you can’t use sonar while driving.
As a former decent swimmer of 17 years (though nowhere near as decent as Phelps) I can definitively rule out swimming as a factor contributing to his poor driving record. I have not hit another automobile in 28 years, since I was 16. He is just a dry land dufus unable to coordinate his bizarrely-proportioned body out of water.
Nice headlike, SKS.
Palin still can’t get these death panels straight, why does’t she point out that they are run by Kenyan witch doctors and that the weak will be boiled alive:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32403916/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
[re=386194]finallyhappy[/re]: You will have a shouty, red-state town hall with Barry and you will be happy with that.
As has been previously noted elsewhere on Wonkett, France & Germany’s economies both feature socialized medicine and industries that actually produce stuff. And both seem to be recovering sooner than our economy, burdened by corporate welfare schemes, obscene & often pointless spending on “defense,” and dominated by an unproductive, parasitic financial services sector. There are lessons to be drawn here but, not being a master of the fucking obvious myself, I’ll leave that to others.
Luckily California was able to sell $2 billion dollars worth of medical marijuana to Michael Phelps, thereby saving the state’s economy. Green shoots indeed!
Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen!
I thought the Muzzies burned down France. Isn’t that what the war in Afghanistan is about?
FAA is tuff, to bad they aren’t in charge of regulating tasers.
[re=386201]hobospacejunkie[/re]: What? Wine and chocolate? What kind of economy is that?
[re=386201]hobospacejunkie[/re]: While it has been previously noted, I don’t think anyone has summed it up as well.
[re=386201]hobospacejunkie[/re]: you forgot the unproductive USA insurance parasites.
Germany gives out teh free college too. You just have to pass a test to get in…and pay for your own beer and chips.
but it doesn’t appear that anybody was seriously injured.
Injured? Hell, in an Escalade it takes 2 seconds for the sound to travel from the front bumper to the driver. No stoner is ever going to drive fast enough to hurt himself in that thing.
Phelps isn’t even allowed to use the treadmill because his coach is afraid he’ll trip, he’s that uncoordinated on land. Poor Aquaman.
[re=386191]PoliticalGraffiti[/re]: Give the Aquaman a break! Have any of you slackers tried to pull a strike-out with a Powerbar, some Gatorade and a monster-rip of lime-green hydroponic BC superbud out of a 2-metre-long 4-chamber bong whilst driving? Not so easy now, doncha think?
Perhaps Mr. Phelps was just trying to help the environment by putting the Escalade out of its misery?
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