Money to Burn

You may know how I feel about bottled water from my rant from last summer, but the article above takes this to a new level. Called "Lamest 'Value-Added' Products" it features plenty of bottled waters of various provenance, but also "the most expensive vodka in the world" (which the reviewers extol as "the greatest new use for your surplus cash since the money bonfire") and even a whole new category--ready-to-freeze ice cubes (tag line:"Ice that's not frozen").

If these people are actually making money, I think its about time to dust off my "dehydrated water" scheme concept (tag line: "All the water you'll ever need in the palm of your hand").

Anti-murderer Bias

It seems that OJ Simpson was in a steakhouse in Louisville, Kentucky when he was approached for an autograph by another diner. The owner, who had had a picture of himself with Simpson among the celebrity photos on his wall before Simpson's wife and her friend were killed, asked Simpson to leave. Simpson said he understood and left quietly.

The owner later explained:

"I didn't want to serve him because of my convictions of what he's done to those families," Jeff Ruby said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "The way he continues to torture the lives of those families ... with his behavior, attitude and conduct."

He went on to say that Simpson's exit was the first classy thing he's done since 1994.

The patrons at the restaurant applauded the owner after Simpson left.

Incredibly, Simpson's attorney played the race card, thereby proving that just about anyone (who is a minority) can do so for almost any reason:

Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said the incident was about race, and he intended to pursue the matter and possibly go after the restaurant's liquor license.

Finally, the attorney gives us a quote that gets my vote for "Absolute Worst Quote on Behalf of an Accused Murderer":

"He screwed with the wrong guy, he really did."