The Times Square Bomb

I'm glad nobody got hurt and everything, but let's stop playing up how bad "this could have been." It was some children's alarm clocks loosely connected to fireworks, gasoline, and nonflammable fertilizer. It was as if Faisal Shahzad heard the television describe a bomb once a long time ago and tried to wing it from memory. The guy was less terrorist mastermind and more Shreeky from the Care Bears cartoon. And, yeah, news channels, it "could have been much worse" if it was a working bomb, or if the fertilizer was the splodin' kind, but it also could have been much worse if it had a miniature black hole generator or zombie plague canister in it, too.

RATING: 100% (I guess it was the best kind of bomb, after all)

(PS - Don't do a Google image search for "Shreeky from Care Bears" with SafeSearch off, FYI.)

NyQuil

This week I have a cold or as I like to call them "an excuse to take NyQuil." I love the cracked out feeling of waking up at 3am and thinking wtf....of yeah, NyQuil....and then I pass back out to a restful sleep. A few years ago they really upset me by switching to a much less great formula that you apparently couldn't use to make crystal meth, but this week I was happily surprised to discover they have gone back to the original methy concoction. Hooray!

Rating: 82%

ps - I bought the cherry flavor this time, hence the photo. I'd say it's about 5% tastier than the green death flavor.