Category Archives: Geography

My Idiot Neighbors

I completely forgot about these two fools but I’ve read some updates to their stories and am just flabbergasted at the stupidity allowed in this country.

First, there’s the nitwit teacher/Holocaust denier who apparently can’t be fired for trying to teach this crazy conservative crazy bullshit to kids. Thankfully, some of Lori Sublette’s students are smarter than she is. At least I hope they are. Others who went into automatic anti-Semite mode are probably hopelessly lost to us as thinking Americans. Sadly, they will grow to vote for Sarah Palin.

Is she still teaching? Yeah, here’s in libertarian Nevada, crazy psychopaths can not only teach, we let them be governor.

Then there’s Joseph Pepitone. This guy decided to don a barrel, put a bunch of anti-government placards on it, then vandalize the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign. He now swears he woke up, took the wrong meds, and impulsively did this. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Here’s the bulk of the coverage by the network who just happened to be there when Whack Job went a’painting. Check out the video, particularly this one and this report.

Oh, and the non-premeditated part of his defense? Bullshit, as evidenced by this video:

He’s been profiled before for having a jackpot taken away by a game malfunction. It’s a four part series that starts here.

Hey, I work in the gaming industry. I feel bad for anyone this happens to but it DOES happen. This doesn’t give you a reason to be insane.

But yeah, there are just a couple of the morons that make up Vegas. You gotta take the bad with the good sometimes I guess.

Las Vegas club agrees to halt promotion featuring live dancers on truck – Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 | 5:48 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

So long stripper truck, we hardly knew ya.

Look, I’m pretty much a local here. I don’t go to the Strip much, if at all unless folks come to visit or we get really cheap show tickets.

And I definitely don’t drag my kid down there at midnight. But apparently the “moral values” dipshits think they need to shut down something that is making a local business some money. So, alas, the stripper truck is no more.

I hate it when uptight nitwits ruin a good marketing venture. I had no need to see the truck, so it didn’t bother me. No one was actually getting naked in it. The Strip is covered in ads for burlesque shows and clubs and whatnot that have scantily clad females on it. Apparently those are fine to the so-called Christians or whatever they think they are.

Look, it’s Vegas. The whorehouses are over an hour away. Stripping is legal, and I don’t want to know what goes on in the all-night massage parlors and 24-hour acupuncture clinics. If you don’t like what Vegas means to the rest of the planet, move back to Provo or Chico or Alpine, TX for all I care. But quit voting for a guy who cheats with his best friend’s wife and then get all irate over a girl in lingerie in the back of a truck.

Hypocrites.

Google Maps glitch renames Henderson – Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 | 2 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Apparently my son was born in Rochester, NV.

At least, that’s what Google Maps says. It’s some form of screw up, and no one knows why, but part of Henderson (a big suburb of Vegas) is called Rochester. Check it out:

And check Google itself. As of this moment, it still isn’t fixed.

That said, Henderson *is* a real city. It exists, even if misnamed. Check out this story about Argleton, a town in the UK that only exists on a map. In reality, it’s a farm field.

Ah, the future. So full of mistake-free promise.

Report: Vegas near bottom on list of smartest cities – Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 | 4:20 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Well, unfortunately this is not a surprise. Las Vegas also comes in dead last in a list of intelligent cities. Yes, this place has a long way to go before we get some respect. Part of it is the transitory nature of many of the folks who live here – a lot of them are working on getting rich quick. Some of it has to do with the hands-off libertarian experiment that says government shouldn’t try to help improve schools, bring in museums, cultivate the arts, etc. And, honestly, this is a new town that grew out really fast without taking the time to worry how to grow *up*.

Either way, at least we’ve still got the meth-head zombie horde in Fresno to kick around.