Put a note on the stick, and plant the stick upright in the dingbat's lawn. The note will explain that the mower did a courtesy mow, found the dingbat's stick in the gutter, moved it the shortest distance necessary to keep the dingbat and her visitors from getting flats, and explain further that the stick will be returned to the dingbat's lawn in little pieces next time. Also note that the mower will never again mow the dingbat's little piece of lawn as a courtesy, but if the dingbat wants to come by in person and apologize for being an unobservant idiot, the mower will consider her apology.

What this does:

It's fun. Making fun of dingbats is always fun. Doing so with a natural organic cluestick is simply delicious.

Every time the mower skips the dingbat's lawn, it will be cause for yet more smiling.

It imparts information to the dingbat on local customs in a manner similar to rubbing a dog's nose in inappropriate piss. Neither really does any good, but see #1.

It provides wonderful conversation with other mowers who may have in the past done courtesy mows. Perhaps now the dingbat will get no more courtesy mows. This will encourage the dingbat to do her own mows, thus getting more exercise, and the mower can take pride in improving her health.

... because fiction has to sound plausible.

It's one thing when it's only used to make flashy animation. It's another thing altogether when it's used to make entire websites. The biggest problem is you can't bookmark any section within the flash animation. You have to save the flash URL itself, then remember how to navigate down to where you want to go.

Flash really sucks.

He's not the only one.

So much for keeping the government out of the doctor - patient relationship. They wanted to force the doctor to tell the patient what the patient has expressly said they don't want to hear? They think it is even their business to tell the doctor what to do and how to do it?

No one except Republicans could be so blatantly hypocritical.

If you don't want the details of your abortion posted on a public web site....

...then don't have one.

That's what we're saying, bozo. No web site means no questionaire needed means stupid law.

Real simple. Don't have the website and save $200K.

I see you didn't pass English comprehension in your life.

You can't use numbers like that. You are comparing apples and oranges.

How do you know more lesbians don't join the Air Force which accounts for the higher percentage of DADT discharges?

Jeez I wish people would learn just a little about handling numbers. This is like reports which say "15 people died" as if the number were a shock, and compare it to "only 2 out of 10000 died in Britain". How can you possibly compare those two figures? Use the same qualifiers.

Numbers can tell us all sorts of things, but only when properly used. Your numbers are just so much distraction and prove nothing.

Randy Cassinghame says it much better than I ever could: http://www.thisistrue.com/zt.html

Zero tolerance is just an easy way for school officials to dodge having to think and to blame anybody else for that failure.

The amusing part of gun control freaks is that they think they actually can eliminate guns. Not only does history show that prohibiting things doesn't eliminate them, it shows that law abiding citizens, who you don't have to worry about anyway, are the ones more likely to give up the prohibited substance, whereas the ones who are the most dangerous with the prohibited substance are also the least likely to give it up. The US alcohol ban of the 1920s and current War On (Some) Drugs are pretty good proof. Or you could look at Britain, where criminals have been using ever more guns since their gun bans went into effect.

The worst part of the gun control mindset is the wasted effort on a hopeless cause which wouldn't actually change the problem it is meant to even if it could be implemented. There's another example of that in Illinois eliminating the death penalty because one year saw more people released from death row because they had been framed by police and/or prosecutors than were executed. No doubt most of these were scumbags anyway, and I don't have any problem with killing truly sick unredeemable criminals rather than paying housing for the rest of their lives for no useful gain. But I don't like the idea that the real criminals got off scot-free and were probably still out there committing more crimes.

I don't understand gun grabbers' fascination with a solution which (a) can't be implemented and (b) wouldn't solve the problem even if it could be implemented. It would be better if they'd spend their energy and time on useful solutions.

There was not a single point during the Vietnam war which anyone can point to and say "Here was when we had done good before and bad after. Here was when we should have pulled out, but not before."

I'm sure many will argue that we at least did good by overthrowing the Taliban during the initial invasion, but that is an illusion of the same kind as the domino theory. No matter when we leave or could have left, the Taliban would ave come right back in, just as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese (for they were the same, Vietnamese to whom the labels "nort" and "south" were meaningless) were destined to take charge again once the imperialists left.

Just pull out, Obama. There is no future there, and it will bankrupt your social policies. You are not quite doomed to one term, depending on how thoroughly distaste for your stupid war compares to memory of Republican malfeasance.