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In honor of 7-11 (July 11th) 7-Eleven is giving out free Slurpees.  The kids are big fans of Slurpees, myself, not so much.  But I love free stuff so we’ll definitely be getting our beverages from 7-Eleven that day.

To get your free slurpee just visit participating 7-Eleven stores and you too can have your very own brain freeze for nothing!

I saw this video on our local newspaper’s website that caught a hit and run in our state’s capitol.  I’m amazed at the people who keep driving by and the hesitation of the bystanders to go over to see the victim.  He’s 78 years old, apparently ran out of milk for his coffee and went to the store across the street to buy some, then this happened.  Now he is paralyzed from the neck down.  Police are still trying to find the person driving the car that hit him.  The car that hit him was pursuing the car in front of him, they had just run a red light before hitting the man.  Read more at Courant.com

This article brought tears to my eyes. A Florida elementary school teacher died of a heart attack minutes after saying goodbye to her final class for the summer. Sharon Smith, 57, was retiring after 36 years of teaching. Read more.

Source: Pensacola News Journal

Actor Harvey Korman died today.  He was 81, Mr. Korman suffered from a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago.  He’s known best for being on the Carol Burnett show but I liked him best in Blazing Saddles as “Hedley Lamarr”.  He was also great in History of the World, Part I as “Count DeMonet”  or as his people called him “Count de money”.

There’s nothing like it. Unless they’re a bunch of bitter crazies. Becoming part of a loving family has saved me.

(photo courtesy of Hal Marcus Gallery)

Every day at work we get spam faxes.  We’re a small company, and our fax machine uses ink jet cartridges which can be quite pricey.  Today we started responding to the faxes.  We’re faxing several black pages back to the spammers for every one page they send us.

What would you buy with $300,000.00?  A new house?  A few cars?  College education for your kids? 

That’s what Atlanta residents are thinking.  Some residents are understandably upset about how their city’s spending.  The City has been laying off hundreds of people, yet they purchased new public toilets at $300,000 a piece, spending $1.5 million total on five toilets. The state of the art bathroom plays music, there’s automatic doors, sinks and toilets. 

Oh, and some of the toilets are only open from 7 a.m. to 7p.m.

Read the rest of the story here:  Flush That!