About goddamned time

E.W. Cromartie pleaded guilty to federal income tax evasion charges.

He's probably not going to get sentenced until the summer, and while, in theory, he could get up to 25 years, his lawyers and the prosecutor have agreed to a sentence of a year and a day. (Must be nice to be a politician, and never have to worry about any serious time in the slam.) Of course, the judge could be a real hard-ass and make the sentence longer then a year and a day.

Yeah, I don't see that happening either.

Muddled thinking

So Wal-Mart is going to be open to a class-action discrimination suit, and they're not happy about it. Seems that they may be guilty of gender discrimination in that women who work there get paid less and promoted less and promoted less often.

One of their lawyers, apparently not the brightest chimpanzee in a suit, said that the ruling allowing the class-action suit "opens up every company in America that has employees to class actions like this."

No, chimpy, only the ones who discriminate on the basis of gender.

Also, the Pope is not for digital transparency. (Meaning he doesn't like the Internet.) I mean, okay, sure it lets people look at a lot of porn. I mean, a LOOOOOOT of porn. But besides that, it leads to "intellectual and moral relativism", which apparently is Vatican-speak for "It informs a whole bunch of people who might not know otherwise that we are chock full of molesters and paedophiles here and therefore makes us look bad."

Because, you know, there's no sin greater then moral relativism... where someone thinks they are better then an organization that has covered up rampant child abuse for decades.

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What happens on YouTube stays in criminal court

Seriously, how fucking stupid do you have to be to post a YouTube clip of you and your friends committing a crime?

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So I watched Hitman tonight.

It's pretty much a train wreck of a movie. I mean, it's possible it could be worse, but only if Uwe Boll was directing.

That being said, I have actually only one complaint. If, as set forth in the movie, there was a shadowy organization training assassins from birth, what dumbass thought it would be a cool idea to have them have barcodes tattooed on the backs of their heads?

I mean, come the fuck on. I'm willing to buy, for the sake of suspension of disbelief, that they're all highly trained and blah blah blah.... but if there is a Rule 1 of being a professional assassin it's DON'T GET NOTICED.