I Voted
Permalink | November 4, 2008 by John in Jillette, Leykis, Politics
Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) is fond of saying the only way to waste your vote is to vote for an inferior candidate (in his opinion both Obama and McCain are inferior) or a third party candidate, since there’s no way one of them will win (interesting, since he is a self-proclaimed libertarian like myself). He basically says you shouldn’t vote as a way of demanding better candidates. Interesting, bombastic and deliciously cynical, but not very realistic.
Radio show host Tom Leykis (a libertarian who voted for Obama) is fond of saying that you shouldn’t vote if you don’t know anything about the candidates or issues. That way, he stipulates, his vote counts more because he is intelligent and informed.
John Bedard (of East Helena, MT) is fond of saying if you don’t vote, you can’t complain. So, I did my civic duty.
(Alleged) Murderess Followup
Permalink | August 7, 2008 by John in In the News, Leykis
It’s been almost two years since I posted about the woman who called in to the Tom Leykis show and confessed to murder.
Police finally have a suspect and are seeking murder charges.
Phoenix police on Thursday formally presented the Maricopa County Attorney’s office with the investigation into the death seven years ago of an Ahwatukee Foothills man whose girlfriend, they believe, called a national talk radio show and bragged that she got away with murder.
Phoenix police Sgt. Joel Tranter also officially named the girlfriend, Megan Suzanne Vice of El Mirage, as the suspect in the case. He said while police won’t arrest the 30-year-old Vice, they are seeking charges of first-degree murder and obstructing a criminal investigation for filing a false police report.
Why they don’t arrest her I’ll never understand.
Justice
Permalink | March 6, 2008 by John in Dating/Relationships, In the News, Leykis
Man to get child support back (via The Tom Leykis Show)
Judge David Roper said he felt badly for Kenneth Samuels when he learned the child he had fathered for 11 years wasn’t his.
Justice was also shortchanged, the judge said, because Mr. Samuels had been paying child support all of those years.
Last month, Judge Roper ruled that Jamie Hope, the child’s mother, and Oba Wallace, the child’s biological father, would have to repay Mr. Samuels $14,460 in child support he had paid since 1997.
Such an order is unusual, but not unique.
I doubt this would’ve been the outcome had this taken place in California or if the Judge was female. All too often the poor schlub who got stuck paying for a kid that wasn’t his, either doesn’t get the money back or, far worse, the man has to keep paying even though the kid isn’t his.
Hopefully Samuels can collect.
Why are People Having Fewer Kids?
Permalink | February 28, 2008 by John in Dating/Relationships, Family, In the News, Leykis
Why are People Having Fewer Kids? (via The Tom Leykis Show):
“Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people’s overall happiness and have consistently found that children have only a small impact. A small negative impact,” reports Harvard psychologist and happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert. In addition, the more children a person has the less happy they are. According to Gilbert, researchers have found that people derive more satisfaction from eating, exercising, shopping, napping, or watching television than taking care of their kids. “Indeed, looking after the kids appears to be only slightly more pleasant than doing housework,” asserts Gilbert in his bestselling, Stumbling on Happiness (2006).
Of course, that’s not what most parents say when asked.
Shaddup. Shaddup. SHADDAP!!!
Permalink | December 17, 2007 by John in Humor, Leykis
What most men are thinking when their wife or girlfriend is yammering, courtesy of Mr. Leykis…
Shaddup. Shaddup. SHADDAP!!! (MP3 Format, 126kb)