At the same time UC Santa Cruz is struggling to find affordable housing for its faculty, it spent $30k for … a dog run for Chancellor Denice Denton’s dogs.
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel:
By way of comparison, the county’s Animal Services Authority paid $6,000 for cyclone fencing with slats for its shelter in Scotts Valley; construction […]

Lance Armstrong has finally dumped Sheryl Crow–a union that really tested the concept of opposites attract. For starters, he’s 9 years her junior and at 34 he could be dating girls in their 20’s. She’s 43.
Another example, politics. Crow absolutely despises Bush. Armstrong bikes with him.
–”Lance dumped her,” Us says plainly, and most of the […]

The Los Angeles Unified School District is looking for a new superintendent, and the teacher’s union wants him or her to know who’s boss:
(A.J. Duffy, president of United Teachers Los Angeles) said the board alone should select the next superintendent on the basis of two principles:
“One, who’s best for the kids, and two, who can […]

Sharon Tendler, a 41-year-old British citizen, became the first human to “marry” a dolphin. While not a strictly legal nuptial, a wedding ceremony was held with Tendler donning a white dress and veil. The 35-year old “groom” was dressed in traditional grey.

“It’s not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He’s the love of […]

Satire site Potfry has a hypothetical Cindy Sheehan advice column including this exchange:
Dear Cindy:
My cat just jumped off the couch and collapsed…now she is walking, but slowly. She is only about 8 months old. I’m wondering if she ate one of the weird little bugs around our house. Nothing appears to be wrong with her […]

After embarassing a country of 48 million by concocting one of the greatest scientific hoaxes of all time then denying it and repeatedly lying about it as the scandal unfolded, South Korea’s Hwang Woo Suk remains a hero to throngs of South Koreans. It appears that the die-hard Hwang supporters are so desperate to have […]

Apple Macs are supposed to be so easy to set-up and use. But when they don’t work they are as confounding as any Windows machine.
I have a Mac Mini, which I love. For the past 4 months had been using it to receive faxes. Then one day (exactly a month ago) it stopped receiving […]

Common sense would tell you that swimming in syrup would be harder (i.e., slower) than swimming in water. Common sense would also argue against actually trying to concoct a field test. Notwithstanding conventional wisdom, someone did and the results are surprising.
What might sound like a trivial question is actually a fundamental question of physics. Back […]

In Hermosa Beach, it looked and felt like summer today — the parking lots were certainly as crowded as they are in July. Bodyboarders were in the 6′+ waves without wetsuits, enjoying the extended Santa Ana conditions we’ve had all week. Who needs that midwinter trip to Cabo or Hawaii anyway?

If you type “Pat Robertson Quotes” into Google, you will get a plethora of sites that track every silly thing he says. But before you do that, take the Independent Sources quiz below to check your knowledge of Mr. Robertson’s more notable utterances.
Which one of the following was not said by Pat Robertson:

A. “The feminist […]

The Holly Ashcraft apologists were recently delivered a blow when the LA County coroner’s office ruled the infant’s death as a homicide. As readers of this blog know, Ashcraft is a 21 year old USC student who was arrested when her new born son was found in a trash bin behind her apartment. Ashcraft had […]

You’ve probably already read that Western Union has terminated its telegram business. In this day and age email and telephones, who knew that there was still a telegram business to terminate? I certainly didn’t.
I would have thought that the fax or telex machines would have killed the telegram several decades ago let alone the […]

Here at Independent Sources South Verizon paid a visit today to install FiOS — their fiber-to-the-home product that promises fast internet connections and, down the road, a competitor to cable and satellite distributors of TV programming.
The good news — it works and it’s fast. Testing using the tools at DSLreports.com, I have a little under […]

To no one’s surprise, the obesity crisis hitting America has hit Disneyland’s workforce and the heaviest place on earth has been forced to redesign its costumes for ride operators, shop clerks, waitresses and other employees.
It turns out that it’s not just the guests who are packing a few extra pounds (see below) and, as […]

This is a picture of a NYC Marathon Finishers medal that was no doubt hard-earned–a minimum of 26.2 miles and who knows how many miles training. For the person who received this medal however they decided instead of leaving it around their necks or taking it home, they put it up on a fence facing […]