Category: Sad

…when it’s news that somebody has decided not to make fun of Britney Spears.

At least when given his full name on a screen in front of us, we can tell what his first name is (and we wouldn’t need a lifeline).

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This guy deserves to die (and I’m still convinced that we need to have required licenses for people to be allowed to conceive, otherwise their kids go up for adoptions):

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) — A man angry his toddler daughter wouldn’t go to bed knocked her unconscious and left her to die outside in single-digit temperatures, police said.

The frozen body of Nyia Miangel Page, who was about to turn 2, was found Sunday at an abandoned playground about a 10-minute walk from the family’s home.

Tiny footprints in the snow suggest she had gotten up and wandered around before she died, police said.

Her father, William Lorenzo Page, 23, of Braddock, was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal homicide, kidnapping, false reports and simple assault.

He has been in custody since Sunday, when he was charged with sexually abusing another child shortly before Nyia died.

These are the kind of people that, honestly, I would shoot if I had a gun and had the chance. Anybody who knows me knows I’m not a violent person, I will probably never own a gun, but nobody should ever do that to a helpless child. Sadly, though, there are just too many nut-jobs and not enough bullets.

This is already all over the blog world but I have to ask: Why in the heck is the city of Boston is freaking out over this? If you want to see one of the “suspicious devices” up close, somebody managed to get ahold of one.

Proving that MySpace is a horribly organized, hard to deal with, generally stupid and hidious Web site, a book has been created to help you with MySpace, though I really think that “MySpace is For Dummies” would be a more appropriate title, and obviously I wasn’t the only one that thought that.

Yes, I know the irony of bad-mouthing MySpace when I have a profile there, but as you can tell I don’t spend any time there at all — maybe 10 minutes a month, max. The only reason I have the profile setup is so I can actually track down my friends who do nothing but spend time on MySpace, and refuse to read messages to them unless they come through their MySpace inbox or their stupid MySpace instant messaging program (get a real IM handle, folks). They’ll send me messages from their messaging system, and my reply is always “Look, if you really want to talk to me, e-mail me at insert my e-mail address as I can’t stand this site. They refuse to start a blog or send e-mails to people and post their life history on MySpace instead and expect everybody to go there to read it. And then they make their profiles private, which makes it so I have to login every time as MySpace can’t seem to hold onto a login cookie in Firefox for its life, and external RSS readers can’t read it if they post something on their blog (they use the news postings area instead, which doesn’t have RSS). Ugh…I wish that site wasn’t so popular, as it’s making idiots out of everybody. I just logged in there to see, just for giggles, if I had a message in there, and apparently I had 15 — all with profiles who have magically disappeared. I felt my IQ drop 10 points just by logging in.</rant>

I really can’t believe people like this exist…

ORLANDO, Fla. – A woman was charged with aggravated child abuse for putting her baby in an oven, turning it on and leaving her apartment after fighting with her boyfriend, police said.

The oven had not gotten hot enough to burn the child, whose age was not immediately available.

It’s going to give out and Emmy to MySpace video posters. Has anybody on the board of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences actually been on MySpace? You can see the nominees (when posted) here.

Getting through security at the airport is bad enough, but now those little security trays you dump your stuff into will now have ads. Link via Fark.

This is so sad: This fancy toilet has a Playstation 3, DVD player, and even a beer tap.

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At one point, the FBI considered the Christmas classic It’s A Wonderful Life to be Communist propaganda.