I just love Urban Dictionary! Just the other day, I was listening to a radio show on BlogTalkRadio.com, and they were talking about side pieces and the jumpoff. They were using the two terms practically interchangeably, which is incorrect. To be sure, I did a search on Urban Dictionary, and one could argue that they are the same things, but there are very technical differences between a side piece and a side piece.

But this blog isn’t about side pieces or the jumpoff. It’s about another piece of slang that I wasn’t aware of at all until this Sunday. I had the co-founder of Single Tease (no, it’s not a porn site), Tamera Lawrence, on the show talking about her great T-shirts that help break the ice between people. You can listen to a piece of it on Words Cause.

During the interview, she mentioned that the chest area of a woman is referred to as “the region”.

I had no idea!

I asked some women at work if they knew about “the region”, and they were familiar with this term for their chest. I went to Urban Dictionary, and “the region” was only defined as Northwest Indiana. So, I added a new definition for “the region”:

Tasteful female slang for the area of their body containing their boobs
She wore a T-shirt with text printed above The Region

All of humanity needs your help! Check out the page for “the region” on Urban Dictionary and click on the thumbs-up for the new definition! It is currently the third definition listed.

Thanks for your support!

Is Chevron Price Gouging? A friend of mine stopped at a gas station in Goleta, CA, the other day. He was shocked to see what was going on. Students from UCSB mindlessly paying for gas that was priced 53 cents higher than gas stations right down the street. Gas stations that are within visual distance of University Chevron.

With all the ways to communicate (cell phone, txt, Internet) is price gouging really a problem of the company that’s doing it? Or is this a problem with the customers? Anyone who is purchasing gas at this Chevron for 53 cents higher than the station right down the street is wasting my property tax money. My taxes keep their tuition low, and they are just wasting it. The problem isn’t Chevron. The problem is our colleges.

While I don’t think that O’Reilly will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a bunch of illegal aliens from Mexico, he does have something in common with them. No, he hasn’t hired an illegal nanny.

Contrary to popular belief, Cinco de Mayo is not a celebration of Mexican independence. It is actual a celebration of the defeat of the French military during the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Bill can tip back a couple of cervezas and eat some Freedom Fries this afternoon and celebrate with his Mexican friends who dislike France as much as he does.

The world really isn’t as different as we sometimes think. Bill O’Reilly and Mexicans can find common ground!

Originally posted on WordsCause.com

A friend of mine at work was checking out Google Maps the other day. They have a new “Street View” feature that was getting the attention of everyone in the office. Soon, we all wanted to see if our house was on Google maps. This one lady pulled up her house on Google Maps and found something very disturbing: Her husbands car in the driveway with the car of her best friend on the street! What!?! Needless to say, there was a lot of splainin to do. Cool technology does not bode well for cheaters, but it’s really great for everyone else!

Google Maps 1: Cheaters 0!

I’ll keep it really brief:

1. Bring more attention to the “gas tax holiday”
2. Point out how both of your opponents support it even though it would just put more money into the already fat pockets of oil companies
3. Remind people that both Clinton and McCain support this ridiculous economic gimmick, and ask the public to decide who we think Clinton and McCain are really supporting
4. Ask America if we want more of the same flat economy over the last 8 years with failed fiscal policy after failed fiscal policy
5. Win handedly, so you are officially running against John McCain and then keep bringing up the fact that McCain supported this very, VERY bad economic gimmick

Free as a courtesy to democracy in America!

Some of our largest environmental problems have not been caused by who you might think. Often, environmentalists cite the Bush Administration or “capitalists” as causes for major environmental problems. Yet, the contributors to some of the largest environmental problems we face today are none other than environmentalists. They are environmentalists who jump on the band wagon of plastic vs. paper bags or electric cars or ethanol fuel.

Plastic saves trees but bio-degrades only after 900 years, is made from crude oil materials, and has amassed such a large pile of garbage that there is now a massive island of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean

The electric car is a mythological zero emission vehicle

And bio-fuels will lead to deforestation.

Don’t contribute to the problem, educate yourself by listening to my radio show this weekend. Dean and I have some great guests on the show, and we’ll be talking about environmentalists who damage the environment.

I’m trying to write some blogs this afternoon, and I’m using Internet Explorer for some reason. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it is because I had it open instead of my preferred browser: Flock (a Mozilla derivative). Tabbing between web pages and applications is painstakingly slow. Even typing is starting to slow down.

I have a really great radio show scheduled for tomorrow morning, and it is taking 20 minutes to post the announcement because my browser is running so slow! My WYSIWYG editor in WordPress is going cookoo. And to top things off, this browser doesn’t even have a built-in spell checker.

Internet Explorer is taking up 178MB of RAM and counting! Luckily, I’ve been able to get my blogs finished and can now enjoy the sweet sensation of closing this horrid browser. What? IE is not your default browser, would you like to make it your default browser? Perhaps when hell freezes over!

I have my fair share of critical remarks for economists in general. I’ve mentioned before that my econ professor a few years ago gave me a B on a paper where I theorized that constantly increasing energy prices would leader to inflation that could not be controlled by the Federal Reserve. He, like many economists, is misguided. That’s part of the reason I disliked my economics degree program. It was mostly a bunch of bologna.

However, there is one other segment of the public policy industry that is even more… well, they are just idiots when it comes to economics. This group is known as politicians, particularly presidential candidates. In an article today, Reuters reported that McCain and Clinton both support a “gasoline tax holiday“. The idea would be to suspend the federal tax on gasoline over the summer.

Folks, it doesn’t get much more idiotic than this! This would drive the demand of the gasoline up, while nothing would happen to the supply. The net result is a continued rise in gas prices, putting more money into the pockets of Exxon and friends (to give them even greater profits). Then gas prices would shoot up almost 20 cents instantly after Summer.

Obama’s points should have just shot up at least 10-20% since he didn’t support this moronic policy!

I think it’s ironic that anyone who is an environmentalist will purchase a DVD called “Who Killed the Electric Car?” This movie slams GM for playing a major part in killing the large inadequate technology of electric vehicles. Of course, this film is a Sony Pictures Classics Film, but they make no mention about the vested interest that Sony has in DVDs. I’m sure “Electric Car” will be on Blu-ray soon.

The best part is DVDs are made primarily from crude oil based substances. Why wasn’t this distributed via free download over the Internet instead? This isn’t about protecting the environment. This is people trying to make a fast buck on environmental naivety.

Learn who really killed the electric bus!

There’s not shortage of love on my part for Internet Radio powerhouse BlogTalkRadio.com. I have my own show that I co-host with a great friend of mine each week. We’ve had some really amazing guests on the show over the last few weeks, and the show gives us a lot of inspiration. We aren’t the only ones that seem to be inspired by our show. With tens of thousands of listeners on BlogTalkRadio.com every day, they have access to hundreds of great shows about several different topics, ranging from the paranormal to conservative politics.

So, it comes as no surprise that BlogTalkRadio.com was chosen as a Webware 100 Winner! What makes this most impressive is that this Internet Radio powerhouse is the only All-Talk site listed under the audio category in the Webware 100. Keeping company with sites such Amazon mp3, iTunes, Zune, and the other music download sites is impressive. Let’s face it, downloading music is what most people on the Internet are looking for. Yet, BlogTalkRadio.com has managed to capture the hearts (and ears) of so many people on the web to be ranked with these music download websites. Big congratulations to BlogTalkRadio.com!