It’s the evil black guns killing all the kids in schools.
It’s difficult to figure out just what the kiddies want for “common sense gun control measures”, but banning “assault weapons” appears to be a common demand.
Here’s the high school protesters’ view of “Weapons of War”.
“It didn’t do anything. Fuck it, ban them anyway.”
Headline today from Reuters, “Lawsuit saying Home Depot tricks buyers of 4X4 lumber is deep-sixed“.
The plaintiff, Mikhail Abramov, sued Home Depot because a “4×4” piece of lumber doesn’t measure 4 inches by 4 inches. It is only approximately 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches which any middle school kid who’s ever taken a shop class knows. That’s been a standard designation over a hundred years. If you don’t know why the “deceiving” dimensions, it’s because the wood is cut wet (containing water for those who don’t know what wet, is) and the wood fibers shrink (fibers contract together for those that don’t know what shrinking, is) when the lumber is dried.
The amazing part of the judgement is that the judge, Sharon Johnson Coleman, of Chicago (go figure) dismissed the case “without prejudice“, which means shyster Abramov can refile the lawsuit. Her oh so well reasoned judgement for “without prejudice” is because the label was “4×4” and it didn’t show a dimensions of inches.
What if the lumber was labeled with a dimension? According to the judge the retarded plaintiff might have had a case against Home Depot because the lumber was less than 4 inches on a side.
If we follow down the rabbit hole of the brilliant legal argument of Judge Coleman, everything that has a unit of measure will also need to have a TOLERANCE in order to ward off a lawsuit for “deceptive” marketing. What if you bought a 16 ounce bottle of water and it only contained 15.999 ounces? Is that “deceptive” labeling? Sounds like a good lawsuit to me as the bottle stated 16 ounces. 15.999 is less than 16 last time I looked. We now have precedence thanks to Judge Coleman. What if you were on a diet program and the bottle contained 16.001 ounces and you didn’t lose weight, can you sue? Again we have precedence for “deceptive” marketing thanks again to the well reasoned logic of Judge Coleman.
How far will we need to go, to define these measurements? Will we need to specify the temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure at the time of the measurements? A simple tolerance isn’t good enough. Most material expand at higher temperatures. Volumes of products can vary with barometric pressure. Even the weight of something as simple as a bag of flour will vary with changes in humidity. Will the location of measurement need to be defined? Gravitational forces vary across the surface of the earth which will affect a weight measurement.
In my book, both the plaintiff and the judge are RETARDED.
I was on a rant the past few days. So now for something a bit lighter.
I was sent a newsletter and one of the articles pointed out that today Barbie, the plastic doll, is 58 years old. There was a list in the article of all the occupations that Barbie has held in her lifetime. One of the occupations listed was ENGINEER.
WTF? Engineer? I didn’t know there was a “Engineer Barbie”. As an engineer, of course I had to look it up.
Barbie has been criticized as an unobtainable symbol of beauty for little girls. Desirability ISN’T one of the qualities normally associated with ENGINEERS. In fact,
“What does an ENGINEER use for BIRTH CONTROL?”
“Personality”
In 2010 Mattel released their first “Engineer Barbie”. Here she is: 
Actually it was “Computer Programmer Barbie” though many were calling her an engineer. We knuckle-dragging engineers don’t consider a programmer as an engineer. The affectionate name we call them is “Code Monkey”. There’s an old adage:
“Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers”
Last year Mattel released another “Engineer Barbie”. Here she is: 
And what does Barbie work on? Washing machines. I guess Mattel wanted to keep Barb close to her “Domestic Engineer” roots. What caught my attention is what she’s holding in her hand. Why she needs a biological lab microscope to build a washing machine, I have no idea. Perhaps Mattel is just reinforcing her blondeness.