A few quick comments today:

This is stupid. Don’t these people realize how idiotic they sound when they say things like this?

When bridal shop owner Nancy Owen found ants in her store, she had two choices: relocate the critters or relocate her shop. Extermination was not an option.

That’s because the landlord of the Austin shopping center where her store was located is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The landlord imposed strict rules on tenants requiring that no meat or animal product be sold in their stores, and that no animals – including ants – be harmed.

“If you don’t have to cause animals to suffer – even the animals we don’t understand so well like ants or mice or chickens – why not choose to be kind rather than to be cruel?” asked PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich.

Yeah, those ants sure are complicated buggers. There’s a lot we don’t understand there.

Here we go again with the stupid lawsuits.

A New Hampshire woman whose husband died in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center sued President Bush and other government officials yesterday, contending their negligence of airport security resulted in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

First they say that the attempts to make things more secure invade our privacy, then they say they’re not doing enough. And how, exactly, was the state of airport security worsened when President Bush took office? I wouldn’t even try to pin that one on Slick Willie, much as I might like to.

And this just makes me mad.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge handed down bad news to those expecting their dinners to be forever free from interruptions Wednesday, ruling that the Federal Trade Commission (search) didn’t have the authority to slap telemarketers with a national “do-not-call” list.

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The telemarketing industry has claimed the list, slated to take effect Oct. 1, could reduce its business by half and cost it up to $50 billion in sales each year.

$50 BILLION!!!Give me a break! That means that on average they expect to sell $1,000 worth of their crap to each of the 50 million who have signed up, per year. I don’t think so.

Things are getting stupid, folks.