Miscellaneous rambling, and bragging about my kids.

Ok, well, there's certainly room to be a little conflicted on this story about a deathrow inmate's desire that his last meal be given to the homeless. He wanted a vegetarian pizza delivered to "any homeless person nearby." The problem is that the prison said they wouldn't honor the request because they "don't donate to charity."

Well that apparently pissed off more people than just me, because $1200 worth of pizza was delivered to local homeless shelters by members of the community. Good for them. I particularly like the quote from one of the workers at the shelter who said that his reaction was, quote, "Wow, Jesus!"

At the top I said "much to be conflicted about" because let's face it, the guy (who has now been executed) did kill a cop. So it's not like he's a nice, upstanding member of society. And if, for his last meal, he'd said "Screw you, go give it to the homeless for all I care" then I would see the prison's position. But that's apparently not how it happened. So just because this guy is a bad guy, why punish him by depriving the homeless of food?

This news story actually worked out for the best, since the prison's rules require that a last meal be worth at most $20. Thus far it looks like close to 100x that much has been donated.

Good lyrics. Good song.

Perhaps Chris wrote this song way too early in his career… or did he think this is the end of his career?

I think I may have disliked BeeGees week more than I hated country week. The songs really just do nothing for me, and it didn't help that everybody butchered them. The most interesting scene of the night was trying to figure out what sort of work Barry Gibb had had done to make him sound like Sean Connery.

Anyway, it's down to 3 as Lakisha is sent home. She doesn't seem too upset about it. As Simon says, somebody has to go. At this point they're all very good singers.

As always, if you're looking for the lyrics to the song they play at the end, it's "Home" by Chris Daughtry and the lyrics are available right here. Enjoy.

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thanks vettegirl. If everybody's got the same line wrong, though, how are you sure that yours is correct? I have the liner notes down stairs in my wife's car, if I ever get down there when I'm doing the blog I'll have to check it out.

Eh, to each his own. Not like Shakespeare's on tv every day, ya know. Gotta have a variety of interests. I'll take music and dancing over most generic sitcoms, law and order shows and CSI clones.

I absolutely love this song (it reminds me of my boyfriend-he's going to college in another town far away from mine), but I noticed on the lyrics posted above that one line is wrong. It's not "but your love, it makes true"; it's "but your love remains true". And it seems like every lyrics site I've visited has posted that same wrong line.

New watch it, not interested, how lame can a TV show get. Can't understand how anyone who has Shakespeare on his Website can be interested in a show about dancing. How about a play by play on a Golf match.

BoingBoing has this very linkable story about a man with no arms and only one leg escaping the police. If I cared about Digg.com I would say "dugg for" the following things:

• Deliberate use of "out run" in a story about a one-legged man.
• His name is "Wiley". Gotta be a headline in there someplace, like "Wily Wiley Escapes Police" or something.
• Quote from his "longtime acquaintance" who calls him "The worst person I've ever met." Nice friend.
• He's wanted for "kicking a state trooper and attacking his wife headfirst." Quick! Somebody quote the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail! But seriously, folks, after the one-legged man had kicked the state trooper wouldn't he, you know, have fallen down? How much momentum could he really get behind the kick? And just how fast was he able to get back up that the troopers didn't just pig pile on top of him?

Be sure to check out the comments on the original post, too. Not just for the number of times somebody says, "What, this guy again???" (apparently he is a regular feature?), but for the absolutely atrocious spelling and grammar used.

Why am I LOL at that one? That was funny.

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ROB

Ok, somebody explain to me the logic of this decision. A Tennessee man scheduled for execution said that he did not want his final meal, and they should order a pizza and give it to a homeless person. It's unclear from the story whether he had a specific person in mind or was just saying it generically. The prison, however, won't do it. "The taxpayers don't give us permission to donate to charity," is the quote.

Lame. I always thought it had more to do with "last wish". He wants a pizza given to a homeless person. It's not like the prison itself is deciding to take his meal from him and give it to charity. It's what the guy wants. I don't understand the logic of that at all.