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Website Wednesday

So there I was, 3:30 am this morning, wide awake, knitting in bed and watching a 1935 Gene Autry movie - yes, I was desperate. (Did you know that Encore restores these old westerns?) Of course, it was your typical formula western with singing. But at one point, Gene is reading a letter which says that someone needs an operation and as soon as they raise the money.......you know the rest.

And I got to thinking: This is 1935 and people were having to raise money before they got a needed operation.....

And then my mind really went off (as if it never does) and I thought: In finance, when the credit cards charge usurious rates and the banks pay no interest and Wall Streeters get million dollars in bonus, there is an outcry. The cheats! The bastards! The low-lifes!

But when panels come out and say that medical procedures are not warranted (mammogram before 50, etc.) because they are just ineffective, costly, and physically damaging, the outcry goes the other way. Few people shout: The cheats! The bastards! The low-lifes!

No, when the medical profession gets called on its costly and unnecessary procedures which just line the pockets of the health care system, the bilked public rushes to their defense. Like in our over-the-top capitalistic economy, health care gets a pass. Go figure.

However, my website pick today is really neat:

http://www.cracked.com/

This is just fun. You know that I love annotated lists and here you get a shitload of them.

You learn about the nature of Cracked, not in an About section but in the Advertise section:

Not all of you realize this, but the comedy at Cracked.com is not produced by a team of Hollywood professionals in a big comedy headquarters surrounded by comedy supercomputers. Cracked articles and videos are made almost entirely by people like you: fans of Cracked.com who have a great idea and the ability to deliver on it.

So, are you funny? Want to get internet famous, and have your stuff read or watched by hundreds of thousands of people? And be paid money for it? We don't care if you don't have tons of comedy experience. We want you on board.

So, I guess I’d say: You are Cracked.

Right now, there Home page has a “Where Are They Now?” list or in Cracked’s lingo: The 7 most WTF Post Fame Celebrity Careers. I didn’t know that Peter Weller, RoboCop, is presently working on his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art at UCLA. I’m impressed! I like that career move. Unfortunately, Jason Hervey’s (The Wonder Years) career change didn’t turn out as well.

Or, you can click on: 7 Classic Star Wars Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball for a very detailed list of these bozos. Or, in the archives: 7 Bullshit Police Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies). I cried here when I discovered Gil Grisson (CSI) was not a DNA god.

Then click Craptions and stroll through captioned pictures which get that way though contest submissions. Many of them are really funny and there are zillions of them to explore.

And, who can’t love a place with a forum titled Pointless Waste of Time?

I can’t promise a PG rating here but who cares? This is fun, cracked fun, and it looks like basically factual cracked fun.

So enjoy. It may be pure fluff like that spun candy you get at state fairs but it’s sure good while it lasts.