From today’s Los Angeles Times

Waves Claim an SUV, With Drinking Reported

An illegally parked sport-utility vehicle with several people inside drinking beer was pulled into the surf by a strong tide early Monday, officials said.

No one was injured when the SUV was washed into the surf about 12:50 a.m. The car was towed out of the surf, officials said.

The SUV’s occupants were cited for driving on the beach.

Probably related to the asshole I saw doing 70 on the Irvine Avenue S-curves tonight in a full-sized Dodge pickup in the wet.

Proposal: License any vehicle over a certain weight as a commercial truck, instead of doing so by number of axles. Do I hear an aye?

Psychiatrist’s office, soft hits station.

HOLY CRAP I THINK THIS IS STEVIE NICKS DOING “SILENT NIGHT” DO YOU HAVE ANY STELAZINE

My DSL changeover Just Worked. What the hey.

• Satanist Christmas sweaters
• Wreaths on SUVs
• The word “slacks”
• The Marine Hardware Rule
• “Unpimp my ride”
• Patriotic Christmas ornaments

From metaspy.com:

boner wrestling; butt smother; garden statues; dc job structure; statistic canada e commerce; everquest 2 guradian guide; “germanic paganism”; loans; albuquerque construction defect cases; dandalo means

The Whole Foods muzak is playing a mix of alternapoo Christmas crap. Who knew the Gin Blossoms had a Christmas song? Why is this happening? SOMEONE GET KOFI ANNAN ON THE HORN THIS REQUIRES SOME KIND OF INTERNATIONAL AUUUGH NO NOT THE SAVE FERRIS

Say it, charlie!

If you run Windows, you have spyware nowadays. More technically knowledgeable users who avoid Internet Explorer and take other precautions have less of it, but no one is immune. Spyware not only violates the privacy of computer users, but also cripples the operating system and software. Infected machines run slowly, crash often, and behave unpredictably. Frequently, even experienced technical professionals must reinstall their operating system completely and lose data.

Spyware is distributed by marketing agencies in well-run Western countries who operate legally.

Now, if I broke into a computer system run by a corporation and installed resource-hungry privacy-violating software that sent me information about their behavior, corrupted data, caused system failures, and all of the above, I would be guilty of a felony in the U.S. Doing this to systems that could threaten lives if they failed could make me eligible for the charge of industrial terrorism.

So, legally constituted corporations within the reach of my country’s laws are committing felonies on a grand scale. And considering the number of Windows computers that are attached to control systems which, if they failed, could cause death and destruction, it’s likely that they are also committing industrial terrorism.

Obviously someone is being paid off here. Does anyone have pointers to information on this?

Also, why hasn’t some enterprising populist politician here in the U.S. taken this as a crusading issue? There’s political capital to be made from all those enraged small business owners and home computer users who are being terrorized by this garbage.