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Media Temple Issues: The Daily Plunge is experiencing some hosting problems. Our host, Media Temple, got hacked a few weeks ago and it appears that WordPress users were the target. I’ve solved the problem about a website redirect, but the blog has been sluggish the past few days. Hopefully Media Temple eliminates some of the down time. This blog has been running at a snail’s pace on the backend and completely reinstalling may not be the answer.

Dog Bites Man, Saves Life: Who says our health care system doesn’t work? A dog bit off a man’s big toe and actually saved his owner’s life. No, really!

Kiko smelled an infection in his owner’s right big toe and set about “amputating” it. Which in doggie terms, of course, means he ate it. All the while, Kiko’s owner, Jerry Douthett of Rockford, Mich., lay passed-out drunk in his bed. (We told you it was bizarre.)

Mr. Douthett had been told by his wife (a registered nurse) to get the toe checked out by a doctor. Instead of heeding his wife’s advice he decided to get wasted instead. The dog took care of the rest.

JetBLUE: Today, the actions of Steven Slate will live in infamy. The JetBlue flight attendant had a complete meltdown after a flight had landed  at JFK. Evidently one more rule breaker pushed Slate over the edge.

Slater, a 20-year veteran of the airline industry, cursed at the passenger on the plane’s public address, announced he was leaving, grabbed a couple of beers from the galley and slid down the emergency chute that he had deployed, officials and news reports said.

This is a meltdown of Mel Gibson-like proportions. However, no one is really rallying around Mr. Gibson. Slater, though, has already received the admiration of many on the internet. Slater’s lawyer has already come up with a defense.

“People just don’t have courtesy for one another. He’s been in the airline industry since he’s 19 and people just aren’t polite. I don’t know if you travel, aren’t you aware of how rude people are?” defense lawyer Howard Turman said.

I think we can all sympathize to some degree about having to deal with classless morons; however, mean people aren’t a new phenomenon and being rude to an entire plane full of passengers cannot be justified under any circumstance. Slater deserves whatever punishment he receives, which we hope will be riding in coach every day for the rest of his life.

Dennis Kucinich News: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is getting annoyed with the nutroots. Gibbs told The Hill that the Left “wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president…” I think we can all agree on that point. Does this signal an eventual move to the center by the President? Maybe, maybe not. Gibbs seems to think they’re in the center already, if you consider “center” to be slightly left of Fidel Castro. That’s not a good sign.

Fallen Idol: Lookout Lindsay Lohan! American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino tried to kill herself and, of course, it didn’t work out. Although Fantasia was unsuccessful, this just might be the kick-start her career needed. Hello rehab!