Rush Limbark and Sir Lix-a-lot rounded out last year's most unusual dog and cat names.

In case you haven't heard, a transit cop in Oakland, Johannes Mehserle, fatally shot a man, Oscar Grant, execution style while he was being restrained.



This view has a better perspective.



Did the cop mean to shoot this guy in the back? I don't think so. Although the second video shows the actual shooting clearer, the first video shows his immediate reaction. He looks completely surprised that he shot the guy. You hear all those people screaming in the videos? I am sure that the cops heard them too. No cop is crazy enough to execute a guy in front of whole bunch of witnesses.

My guess is that he thought he was shooting him with a taser for "resisting arrest." According to lots of other articles I have read on the internet, Johannes was threatening Oscar with his taser gun a little before the shooting but apparently put it away. It is possible that he mistakenly drew his gun thinking it was a taser gun (which begs the question: why are taser guns so similar to REAL guns?).

But there is something that SHOULD come out of this. Had there not been a TON of video cameras showing this, do we really think there would have been this kind of uproar? Is it be possible that the city would quietly pay off the family and the guy would be reassigned? Who knows. I think one thing is clear though. People should be ENCOURAGED to video tape cops during arrests. Because of their "authority," cops' accounts of situations will always be trusted and civilians will be suspect. The video is your tool to show the world the truth.

It should be a criminal offense for a cop to try to stop an innocent bystander from video taping an arrest from a safe distance(jackass videographers that get in the face of cops while they are doing their job deserve to lose their cameras and get arrested themselves).

On some random message board, someone asked how to survive a long distance relationship. One of the respondents revealed that she was able to do it by cheating on her boyfriend of 3 years. But she made the mistake of revealing WAY too much information...

...and one of the readers took exception to her cheating. See the entire thread (the pic at the top is pretty NSFW). It is now on Digg.com and spreading fast.

Update: Digg.com removed the article for some reason. So someone else reposted it!
Update 2: Reddit has found it and is commenting.
Update 3: Youtube has it now.
Update 4: CollegeOTR, a site no one has ever heard of, has it now.

Hopefully I will die with a cheesesteak in my mouth rather than live the extra 20 years of my life like this. See more comics about how aging sucks.

I think this quote says it all:

Rather than making Guitar Hero guitars harder or more "realistic", surely the success of Guitar Hero means that the onus is now on the manufacturers of "real" guitars to make them easier (in other words, more like the ones in Guitar Hero).

I looked for sarcasm, and it isn't there. This article is endorsing the redesign of guitars to make them more easy to play.

Snoochy Pooches!

Go Birds!

Dumbass caught red handed stealing a TV. Immortalized on the Internet.

Life imitates art...

Isn't it odd that there are so many career politicians that are millionares? How is that possible when there are only like 4 people making over $200,000 a year in salary. Well Robert has an interesting idea called the "net-worth test (halfway down the page)." It was a method invented by the IRS to convict Al Capone of tax evasion. Basically, you have some IRS bean-counters evaluate how much it takes to afford your lifestyle and if you report less than that, BAM - your evading taxes.

How do you think our elected officials would fair if the net-worth test was applied to them annually?

He also has the idea of creating "credentials" for becoming an elected official (basically a test). I like it in theory but it sounds like an awfully slippery slope to prevent a lot of people from winning office.