Wednesday, March 16, 2005

What's wrong with these F'Heads...

The New York Post has hit a new low. And that's hard for a paper that prefers to put Star Jones and Michael Jackson on the cover (seperately as far as I know) when important newsworthy items like the recent bankruptcy bill that snuck thourgh Congress last week go untouched. But they found a way in the headline from yesterday's paper about Michael Bloomberg's trip to Israel.

MIKE'S H'CAUST HONOR

They contracted The Holocaust. Six million Jews were murdered during that time but The Post can't spare four lousy extra letters? Especially since the story is about Bloomberg's trip to dedicate a Holocaust mueseum. In a city filled with Jews, you would think they would be a little more sensitive.

Sunday, March 13, 2005

Be werwy quiet, I'm huntin' Wabbits...

The Internet ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs nothing if not a haven for inventive entrepreneurs. This American spirit of creatively making a buck is epitomized in this delicious website a friend sent me last week. SaveToby is a website dedicated to raising money on a colossal joke. I hope.

The site first introduces into a cute fuzzy bunny rabbit named Toby. Once the "awws" and "ohhs" begin to fade, we are told that the site's pwner is trying to raise money because this June, Toby is going to die if he can't raise enough. How is Toby going to die? The author intends to eat him. His need for moeny is really just a ransom. But it's damn funny. The site offers pictures of a confused rabbit in a frying pan and a cutting board. One section offers redcipes for cooking rabbit with ingrediants that call for 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil, 6 artichokes, and 1 Toby cut in serving-sized pieces flour for dusting with salt and pepper. Hillarious!

Well, it's not funny ha-ha. More funny sick-sick. But it must be a universal sickness. SaveToby is demanding its patrons all donate a dollar each via Paypal to save the little bunny. Its goal is to raise $50,000 by June 30th of this year. While that is a seemingly absurd amount, it's already raised over $18,000.

The American dream at work.