Quiznos makes promises they can't keep

Cheapskate Quiznos Corporate gave away a million subs. Except, apparently, they made their franchisees give away a million subs, without reimbursement, and the franchisees decided they didn't want to participate. So yours truly got to make a trip to Quiznos for nothing.

The sign above first blames "Customer Abuses" but later admits that they are not getting reimbursed.

Cheapskate Corporate! Shame on you.

Chimp cartoon critics miss the point in two ways

First off, the "controversial cartoon" which has people up in arms. Imagine the outrage that some one would compare a a chip to our President (who happens to be African-American.) Uhhh... listen up people: it compares a monkey to CONGRESS. President Obama didn't write the stimulus bill, Congress did. Strike one.

And second, if it WAS comparing the chip to Obama, certainly there is plenty of precedent for comparing presidents to chimps and that raised little protest. Comparing chimps to Presidents is the American way!

Strike two.

So, people, all I have to say is "get over it and let's move on, nothing to see here folks."

Al Gore compares himself to Galileo

Al Gore gave a speech to schoolchildren just before the Inauguration of Barak Obama. He compares his claims regarding global warming and it's rejection to why "older people" rejected Galileo's claims.

He compares the certainty of global warming with the certainty of astronomy.

"When I was your age and the civil rights revolution was unfolding, and we kids asked our parents and their generation, 'Explain to me again why it's okay for the law to officially discriminate against people because of their skin color?'

"And when our parents' generation couldn't answer that question, that's when the law started to change. There are some things about our world that you know that older people don't know," he continued. "Why would that be? Well in a period of rapid change, the old assumptions sometimes just don’t work anymore because they're out of date," Gore said.

tranlation: Your parents don't get it. You do. You're smarter than your parents! They think it's OK to dump tons of pollution into the atmosphere. You know better. Global warming is as certain and as sure as the earth rotating around the sun, and anyone who disagrees is as dumb as the people who rejected Galileo.

A very clever speech, given to young people not quite educated enough to dunk it. The indoctrination of our youth continues. Who will call Al Gore to account?

Listen to a recording of the speech here