Happy 2007!

For every year in the new millennium that I am privileged to see, I am filled with anticipation for the heretofore promised jet packs, transporters, and laser beam guns. Sadly, every year I am disappointed. I say, what's the point of the "future" if you can't take your jet pack, transport to the park, fly around and vaporize some pigeons, and come home in time for you favorite program on the TV?

Instead, we have links on the internet like this one! (for the less curious who don't wish to click, it's a link to HowStuffWorks.com that explains how Death By Hanging works). I'm sure not EVERYone is privy to the many intricacies of a death by hanging, but seriously folks, who writes this stuff? It's pretty gruesome subject matter (although quite topical!) and I'm sure even the most pedestrian of the general populace understands what happens in a death by freakin' hanging. I think it should be good enough to simply file it away under "things you really don't want to experience" and move on.