Today's Updates

* There was another shooting at Northern Illinois University. Sheesh!

* You know how at Babies 'R Us and Toys 'R Us they have a sign on the cash registers saying that you get a free soda if they forget to ask you if you'd like batteries with that? Well, they should extend the same deal when they forget to give you the gift receipt you asked for. I was hungry and, sorry for the tmi, had to pee like a racehorse, and I was having a bad day in general, but no...I had to go up to the service desk to get my damn gift receipts. And they way they have their system set up, it took another five goddamn minutes for the lady to get the receipts printed up. It would have taken only thirty seconds if they cashier had been paying attention to what he was doing...

* A story about people living in the storm drains under Las Vegas. Some of the residents have trouble with gambling, alcohol, and drugs, others are folk down on their luck because of the recession. (Swiped from ginmar)

* An article about Robert Ebert living with cancer (Swiped from hellziggy)

* And the Feds are now investigating the school district that spied on kids at home using webcams. Good (Swiped from hakeber

* A very poignant article from Salon on the Kevin Smith / Southwest Air debacle (Swiped from naamah_darling)

* So late. Hitting post and going to bed...