Locally, some people seem to be in a snit over boobs. There’s a local bottle return center that’s raising money in support of the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of CNY (that’s Alec’s mom, BTW), which put up signs reading, “Bottles for Boobs.” The professionally offended are outraged – outraged, I say – at such language. I’m not really sure why, though when I first read the sign, I thought there was some sort of trading thing going on (which didn’t seem like much of a deal to me; if it was the other way around, maybe). But, whatever. It’s in one of our more affluent suburbs, whose residents are apparently too high class and humorless for such crude language. Maybe for Christmas they can have “Toys for….” Well, never mind.

Speaking of boobs, the Miss California Pageant wants theirs back. Well, maybe not the boobs themselves, but they’re suing (counter suing, actually) Carrrie Prejean (aren’t her 15 minutes up yet?), demanding that she give back the $5,200 they shelled out for her boob job. Personally, I think they ought to just demand the implants back. Perhaps they can pass them along to their next pageant winner. You know, instead of a crown. That way, they can ensure that California is always represented by a nice pair. :boobs:

Speaking of a nice pair, today’s “Two for Tuesday” Woot is a pair of talking smoke detectors. They not only speak to you (I wonder if you can record a personal greeting? “Get your ass outta bed! The f*cking house is on fire!“), but they talk to each other. So, if one goes off, they all (up to 18) go off, and supposedly tell you where the fire’s at. Pretty nifty, though, to me, not worth the $45, even if they do come with an instructional DVD (really? There are really people that need a DVD to figure out smoke detectors? How do they figure out the DVD player). That reminds me, I really ought to check the batteries in our smoke detectors. I’d have to find them, though. We took ’em down to paint a few years ago, and that’s the last I remember seeing them.

The “first pair” – Barack and Michelle Obama – head to Wall Street today, trying to get some of our bailout money back. No, not in the form of home mortgages for working people or loans to small businesses. In the form of a $30,000 per couple fundraiser for Democrats. Oh, only about half a dozen of the attendees are from the big bailout bucks winners, so I reckon it’s all OK. But it gave Newt Gingrich a chance to tell Matt Lauer that the Obama Administration is a bunch of hypocrites, creating unaccountable “Czars” and whatnot, and that the Democrats are making bipartisanship “impossible.”

What a boob.