KISS is still good advice

It's sad that this even needs to be said: "..[It's] ridiculous that even toasters have complicated instruction manuals." From the article Why More Features Don't Make Consumers Want A Product @ Business Insider

No cure for "stupid" yet

English copper thief pees on a transformer burns his package and causes an explosion. Evolution at work or revenge from an angry God? Heh, doesn't matter does it?

The "leader of the free world" creates his own mini-police state everywhere he goes

And so it seems we Ann Arborites must endure another Obama visit this coming Friday. Look for DTX to be closed to take offs/landing whilst the Imperial Barge Air Force One is on the runway. Look for major highways like I-94 between Detroit and Ann Arbor to be closed to traffic and for police/feds/unidentified black uniformed goons to be posted at all the bridges, on/off ramps and on the tops of every tall building along the way. Furthermore, the immediate area around the pres will become a civil liberties free zone  and from which you can/will be barred from regardless of your business for being there. The Big Ø will zip into town in a fast moving multi-SUV motorcade, speak, and then zoom back out to DTX but even so downtown will be on lock-down for 24 hours probably starting around Thursday until the Big Ø leaves.

As you may surmise I've experienced quite a number of presidential/presidential candidate/First Lady/VIP visits to my town over the years and so I know the drill by now.

I guess we're all supposed to feel honored that he and his entourage have deigned to grace us with his presence yet again. Myself, I was hoping that with advent of the modern police state we'd only need to endure the Dear Leader's digital presence on a jumbo-tron screen rather than in person. Less disruptive.

Sadly in Detroit that's just how we roll

Grandmother beat down by irate party-goers at the Dearborn Chuck E. Cheese when she asked them to stop cursing and swearing so loudly near her grandson's birthday gathering inside the restaurant. This isn't the first time something like has happened before either. Go figure?