A disgruntled anti-Googler has put up this large-scale poster, poetically decrying the search engine's inexorable reach into our lives. It reads:

I'm watching you/ I'm targeting you. I'm searching for you. I'm tracking you. I know where you live. I have pictures of your block. I have pictures of your house. I put you on the map. I know where you spend your money. I tell you were to spend your money. I want your money. I am money. I sell your information. I read your email. I know you watch porn. I help you watch porn. I killed the encyclopedia. I'm Big Brother's little helper. I am Big Brother. I'm a Big Brotha Mutha Fucka. I'm a noun and a verb. I'm above the law. I bought the law. I'm out of control. I AM GOOGLE and I own you. I OWN YOU ... and I stole this city's soul.

(Note: It looks like there's a battle to pull the video down, and copies of it that have spread everywhere. We'll do our best to keep up.)

Sure to make millions of appearances across laptop and TV screens in the coming days is Crazy Rhubarb Lady, who in an unknown county in Everytown, USA appears to have been at war with her neighbors for at least a few decades.

The best part, though, is she sounds like Cartman's grandma as she hurls f-bomb after f-bomb and calls her shrill, concerned neighbor, who's accusing her of stealing rhubarb from her property, a "fucking bitch" and "fucking troublemaker" over and over again.

Best line: "This doesn't have your name on it. Where's your name, bitch? Where's your name, bitch?"

The ladies go at it for four full minutes in which they claim the police are coming, but Crazy Rhubarb Lady is unconcerned because she has "relationships with the police." Also, she's merely foraging some rhubarb from what she claims is "alley property," and there for the foraging. Actually, we might even want to side with her on this one.

If only she can be booked on the Today show, our lives will be complete.

Also, we should point out that she might be calling the kettle black when she tells the neighbor "Have some coffee you're drunk as a skunk!"

Hopefully we will get some answers soon about where in our blessed nation this was shot.

Update: Like all things, the video appears to have originated on Reddit, and it seems to come from Iowa.

[h/t: Beth Spotswood]

How many guns is enough? For the Santa Clara man accused of death threats against state Senator Leland Yee, the magic number is 26. Police discovered dozens of guns, thousands of bullets and a cache of high-capacity ammunition magazines after serving a search warrant at the home of 45-year-old Everett Basham. They also discovered a clipping from the San Jose Mercury News on Yee's efforts to restrict assault weapons, an issue which seems to have prompted the threats.

Authorities busted Basham after traced a menacing email sent to Yee's office in January stating that the anonymous sender was a trained Marine sniper prepared to lay in wait at Yee's office. NBC reports that even though the U.S. Marine Corps has no record of Basham, the email detailed the sender's military experience in terms of a preteen pwning n00bs in Gears of War:

"I own a Barret 50 caliber sniper rifle and can hit a spinal cord at 1.5 miles making a head become red mist,'' the email states. "I have 39 confirmed kills in afganistan (sic). Don't make me get to 40.''

The email went on to directly address Yee's proposed gun control legislation:

"If you succeed in passing a bill that bans AR15 weapons in California just know these things ..."

Basham has pleaded not guilty to the charges of possessing assault weapons, explosives and bomb-making materials, as well as to threatening Yee.

In a February statement, Yee reiterated his commitment to gun control in the face of the threats:

"I want to make it crystal clear these threats and any others will not deter me and my colleagues from addressing the critical issues surrounding gun violence ... This case is very troubling and only further demonstrates the need to address this epidemic."

[NBC LA]
[Examiner]

The sanity-estranged who roam among us. Where would we be without them? This "crazy Russian lady" went on a rampage at a Richmond store over the weekend. ManicVulva captured the tail-end of her breakdown. She writes:

At the Delano's at 27th & Geary in SF. I shot this after she had been going at it for a while and she's starting to slow down. She was throwing bottles at other customers before. I know she's Russian because that was the language she was yelling at the poor store clerk and the security guard who tried to stop her. Six cops ended up coming, and the first one pulled his gun the second he turned the corner and yelled out "Raise your arms or I'll put a bullet in your fucking head!" While this was going on, I bought some mac & cheese from a panicking cashier.

RIP, vino.

It looks like it snowed right here in San Francisco yesterday and last night. Can you believe it? According to reports the snow was white, fluffy, and cold to the touch.

Also, the National Weather Service has issued a snow advisory for any and all Bay Area elevations above 2,000 feet. Bits of snow have hit the ground all the way from Sonoma to the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The hostage standoff is over. No one died. Nothing went ka-blam. The "deranged man" at Clinton's HQ was simply the town crazy infamous around those parts for his kooky mental instability. (Then, this situation must happen on a daily basis over at Hillary Clinton's SF headquarters.) According to CBS 5:

WBZ Radio's Lana Jones learned that the [wacky] man's stepson reported to police that his stepfather had been drinking for two days. The son said his stepfather had strapped two road flares to his chest and told his son Friday morning that he was going to the Clinton campaign office. He reportedly told his stepson "to watch the news."

Oh, that's sad. Sure, what he did is terrible but we have a soft spot for all you crazies out there. The poor thing.

Clinton has yet to make a formal post-hostage statement. Though when she does, it's sure to be milked dry. (She never ended up contacting the suspect, BTW.) But Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney jumped in on the action, saying that "[e]veryone is keeping those involved in the situation in New Hampshire in our thoughts and prayers right now as well, with hope towards a safe resolution." Which? Is a total lie.

Anyway, we're happy to see the standoff is over sans bloodshed or booms.