Monthly Archives: November 2009

A recession, two wars, and record unemployment numbers did little — it appears — to spoil America’s appetite for shopping this past weekend. But for the first time in recent memory, in what can only be explained as a convoluted sign of progress, nobody was killed.¬†There were, however, plenty of¬†near-riots and fistfights to prove that human idiocy remains a constant…

Last week, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department arrested 73-year-old John Scott for placing “slap tags” (i.e. stickers) on the inside of Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses. The stickers, emblazoned in orange and black, read: “Who Is John Scott?”