My boss is a stupid, stupid woman.  She is afraid of the metric system.  "It's haaarrd."  She was on the phone today, ordering a conservation sleeve for stamps for a new contract. She didn't have a stock number for it, though.  She had measured the block of stamps, though, so she asked the person on the other end if they had something to fit the dimension she needed.  Suddenly she hopped up and grabbed a ruler with both inches and centimeters and squinted at it.  "I guess I need it just over 7 cm.  How do you convert that to mm?"  I had to go around a corner and hide so she wouldn't see the incredulous look on my face.  She then ordered 10 packages of the 74 mm size.  We have about 8 packages, and we don't use the ones we have, but I wasn't going to say anything.  I had just gotten control of myself when she said, "OK, now I have a stupid question."  I nearly fell on the floor in pain, clamping my hand over my entire face to keep from saying, "What, another one?"

The DJ thing is intertwined with a local mall, also.  I heard it on my way home for lunch today.  "The mall has cancelled the Halloween festivities this year, because, and this is a quote from the memo they gave me, 'Halloween is associated with mischievous (pronounced mischeevious) activities, and we think that in light of recent happenings it is best that we cancel the activity this year.'"  The DJ sounded like she thought it was very wise of them.  Blah!  This thing is intended to attract children to a safe place to get some candy and show off their costumes without wandering around to strangers' houses.  Now they'll be out putting bags of flaming manure on people's porches, right? 

Another DJ (I think on the same station) this morning was slamming Richard Gere for not wanting war.  Not for finding a stupid time/manner to say so, but for his actual stance of not wanting war.  This same guy has been blasting anyone who isn't picking up their own gun and buying a plane ticket to Afghanistan.  Grr.