‘Show Prep’ Archives
Thurs. Show Prep – An Inconvenient Edition
Some nutjob walked into the Discovery Channel building in Maryland with a handgun and what appeared to be an explosive device. He was demanding that Discovery have more programming telling people to stop having kids to save the planet. He was apparently inspired by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and some book about a telepathic Ape. Does [...]
Wed. Show Prep – Armed And Nerdy Edition
An attorney is suing Lee County, FL for its ordinance banning guns at parks, beaches, and museums. He says that the state’s concealed-carry law allows those with permits to carry guns pretty much wherever they want. Do you really need to take a gun to a museum? Just because you can carry a gun with you, it doesn’t mean you should. For [...]
Tues. Show Prep – Scholastic Bribery Edition
An organization in St. Louis is offering parents $300 per child to enroll in one of the local schools. The school had been losing students to area private and charter schools. Would you sell your kids off to a lesser school for a few hundred semolians? While President Obama was on one of his copious vacations workers were giving the Oval [...]
Mon. Show Prep – Neighborhood Crusader Edition
A Schaumburg man getting kicked out of his house has decided to take to living in tent in his front yard. He’s asked the city to settle the matter with a jury trial. The city says he’s a health threat, and the bank says that he’s a deadbeat… in his defense says that if he throws anything away, the aliens running the government will [...]
Fri. Show Prep – Rebellious Cake Edition
Moment of Racial Insensitivity: A Florida Winn-Dixie grocery story is apologizing for displaying a Confederate flag cake among its other “special occasion” cakes. The secret ingredient was rebellion. A Pennsylvania high school printed a bunch of inspirational quotes in their yearbook. One of them read “And in the last analysis, [...]
Thurs. Show Prep – Victory Garden Edition
Remember Victory Gardens in WWII? Well of course you don’t, you weren’t alive in WWII. Nonetheless, a Northbrook woman decided that she wanted to plant a vegetable garden in her front yard. It’s green… it’s foliage… it serves a useful purpose. Good idea, right? Wrong. One of her neighbors complained about it, so the village’s [...]
Wed. Show Prep – Minority Report Edition
Just another case of life imitating a Tom Cruise movie: A professor in Pennsylvania has developed software that can predict criminal behavior. If the software proves successful, it could influence sentencing recommendations and bail amounts. Is it really fair to base punishments on the fact that a computer program says they MIGHT do something [...]
