Category: Humor

$1100 Text Messaging Bill

For Texting Teens, an OMG Moment When the Phone Bill Arrives – washingtonpost.com
Sofia Rubenstein, 17, got in trouble the way a lot of teens do these days.

anitelephoneoperator.gif “It’s whatever pops into my head. There’s no stopping it,” she said. “Sometimes I’ll be on the phone with someone and I get texted, and then I’m having two conversations at once.”

Last month the Washington high school junior used 6,807 text messages, which, at a rate of 15 cents apiece for most of them, pushed the family’s Verizon Wireless bill to more than $1,100 for the month. Sofia knew she’d been texting a lot but couldn’t believe the “incredible” number she hit. “I just thought, oh my God, my life is over,” she said.

Indeed. Sofia will be working in her parents’ retail store this summer to pay off her debt — but she definitely won’t be the only teenager paying for text abuse. Minutes? Forget minutes. It’s all about the text allowance.

Edwards set to run as a Bull Mousse

Edwards set to run as a Bull Mousse
Here is a man with a net worth of at least $40 million, with cash stuffed in offshore hedge funds, with a basketball court off his living room, with a haircut debutantes would die for, charging a public university $40,000 for his ideas on combating poverty.

Shouldn’t the first idea he gives the poverty center be: Get rich guys to donate their service and don’t write them $40,000 checks for ceremonial jobs?

It could be that the YouTube video has captured the John Edwards voters need to see. If the nation’s ready for a pretty president, this could be the man.

World War 4

“I don”t know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones.”
— Albert Einstein

Actually we were lucky and World War 3 did not follow Einstein’s prediction – The Cold War ended with a whimper, not a bang. World War 4 is being fought on an electronic battle-field, as the connectivity of Globalization upsets the insulated traditional cultures around the globe. The reaction is global jihads and a counter-reformation in the Episcopal Church of Conservative members from places like Africa. There was a similiar pushback with the Counter Reformation, during the last communications revolution – the invention of the printing press. And what did they print? – the Gutenberg Bible. The result was the rise of Martin Luther and the Liberal Protestant movement and the Conservative Catholic counter-attack, resulting in the 100 years war, amongst others – A Christian Civil War.

The curse of oil dragged Middle East desert tribes into contact with the outside world. Now, we have a Muslim Civil War. Not just the long simmering feud between Sunnis and Shiites, but one over the effects of Modernity on basic Muslim values and beliefs. The internet is the 21st century equivalent of the Renaissance’s printing press for the Islomafacist’s counter-reformation jihad. Where the Christian Civil War was confined to Europe, the revolutionary Global connectivity that has unprecedentedly dragged much of the world out of Poverty has also spilled the war for the soul of Islam far beyond it’s borders to around the world.

Six Funny Life Lessons

Six Funny Life Lessons | Who the hell is Carl Pei?
Lesson 1: Naked Wife

A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next door neighbor. Before she says a word, Bob says, “I’ll give you $800 to drop that towel.” After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob.

After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 dollars and leaves. The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks,…

“Who was that?” “It was Bob the next door neighbor,” she replies. “Great!” the husband says, “Did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?”

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