Some random items from 'The Week'

I was going to work on some long posts about, among other things, my gendered history of the American car industry crack up, and how Medievals are different from us. But it's late and I am tired so this is what you get:

'The number of people who bought nonluxury wristwatches dropped 12 percent last year, a trend attributed to the growing popularity of cell phones with time readouts. Watches "serve no purpose," said Francis Eagan, a 21-year old waiter from Tustin, Calif., "like earrings."
[from The Los Angeles Times via The Week]

And I just paid $9.95 for a brand new watch at Wal-Mart. I feel so old.

'A British man was banned from his local pub after 30 years of loyal drinking for criticizing the decor. He promptly bought the establishment and reinstated himself.'

Now tell the truth - don't you dream of doing something like that?

True fact: the new state bird of Hawaii is the humuhumunukunukapuaa.
[That sound I just heard was blogger's feeble spell check crashing]

After leaving a costume party dressed as a Ninja a Un of Georgia student was surrounded by ATF agents with drawn weapons. A spokeswoman for the ATF defended the action, which might seem a tad overdrawn to uninformed citizens like me: 'Seeing someone with something across the face - from a federal standpoint, that's not right.'

Be warned.

So far the great state of Georgia has not passed judgment on wearing Ninja outfits.