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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Posted 9:37 PM
  Tourette's case shows holes in disability law? No, I don't think this case shows holes in the law. In fact, as long as this law does not apply to this case, it shows a tad of common sense, in an otherwise bleak landscape of stupid federal acts. If the Americans With Disabilities Act did protect the right to whoop and curse in a movie theater I'd begin to wonder if your freedom to extend your arm really does still end at the tip of my nose. Let's take a look, shall we? A thirteen year old kid goes to a movie theater in New Hampshire, on the day after Christmas, to see The Chronicles of Narnia. Now, given the time and date, I'd have to believe there were a whole bunch of families there, all excited to see and hear the story of the lion, witch and wardrobe. But this kid suffers from Tourette's Syndrome; she whoops and curses uncontrollably at times. This particular time was most inopportune as many of the theater's paying patrons complained to the management that someone was screaming and swearing and the titles hadn't even finished running on the screen. The theater manager took this poor kid out to the lobby where they spoke, and, according to the manager, the kid decided to leave - she was not told she had to. But, what if she had been told to shut up or get out? Isn't that what everyone in America is supposed to do in a movie theater, whether they have a disability or not? Nope! Not according to the ADA - in fact, it would appear that had the kid screamed and cursed just a little more, she could have had a nice fat judgment against the theater, instead of just a rain-check for a private screening.
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