It was initially a typical day at the beach.
Venice Beach at its best
But if you turned around it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off in LA. It turns out to have been a brush fire in Griffith Park.
Los Angeles Brush Fire
Then if you turned to the left you could see a smaller, yet […]
Loan Sharks
Old definition:
A loan shark is a scumbag who charges the poor obscenely high rates of interest.
New definition:
A loan shark is a scumbag who charges the poor obscenely low rates of interest.
Source: Marginal Revolution
There is no such thing as a bad ‘women in prison’ movie
Imagine the surprise of the inmates and guards at the Hamilton County Jail when they discovered that the person booked in the case as Alexander David Cross was actually a woman also known as Elaine Ann Cross. Yep, the man they had been holding […]
The world’s tallest man, whose search for a bride covered the world, ended up marrying a woman from his home town nearly half his age and more than two feet shorter, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.
Bao Xishun, 56, a 2.36-metre (7-ft, 9-inch) herdsman listed by Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, married a […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Below is a Los Angeles Times Editorial. We’re running it in its entirety since it’s likely that we won’t see many more editorials coming out of the Times that interest us or a good chunk of their shrinking readership. For those of you not following the soap opera at the Times, the agenda-driven columnists […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In a decision that could have a chilling effect on the activities of young lap dancing women in the UK, the High Court ruled that the nude and semi-nude women who bump, grind and otherwise gyrate on the laps of paying males are responsible for the VAT (”value added tax”) on the fees that they […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Following the Howard Stern mantra of “Lesbians equal ratings” Independent Sources brings you sordid tales from Down Under.
A local Australian icon, the Koala Bear, has recently been revealed as a closet lesbian:
Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five […]
In an effort to attract more mainstream readers, we are absolutely not going to cover this story. It is simply too disturbing. Why would anyone write about a 20-year-old man (let’s call him Bryan James Hathaway) who just received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer?
Unfortunately it’s not his […]
According to a news release released by the Nielsen Co. in 2006 the average U.S. home received watched only 15 or 16 channels with any regularity.
Yet in 2006 the average household paid for 104 channels. This means, on average, U.S. households pay for 88 to 89 channels that they do not watch.
Being industry hacks that […]
Rebecca Arnold of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, were sentenced to three years probation on Monday for having intercourse in front of the woman’s 9-year-old daughter. They claim it was intended to to teach the girl about sex.
During an investigation by the state child welfare authorities, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had […]
… the film (”300″) has sparked outrage in modern Iran, which denounced the blockbuster’s depiction of the ancient battle as “hostile behavior which is the result of cultural and psychological warfare.” According to Reuters, poor-quality pirated DVDs are already circulating in Iran and a broad spectrum of government leaders and bloggers have denounced the movie […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Research that tracks exactly what people are looking at on a web page reveals that men are … well, looking to answer the question “whose is bigger?”
To make matters worse, Tara Pernice Coyne, Nielsen/Norman Group’s director of research who co-directed the study, told USC’s Online Journalism Review that “this difference doesn’t just occur with images […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Forcing psychotics to take drugs against their will is not a great plan, however it’s better than the alternative of letting clearly delusional and dangerous individuals become human time bombs inside institutions and on the streets. So why don’t we drug them? Ask the California Supreme Court which felt that coercive administration of medication could […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Where’s my $2 mill?”
Some will consider it greed, others will think it just a stunt to remind people that’s she’s not dead (yet), others will say that Carol Burnett wouldn’t have done something so inane unless she’s already suffering from dementia. For those of you who don’t know, Burnett filed a $2-million copyright infringement […]
As the Presidential-wannabees of 2008 fall all over themselves trying to be the most digital, John Edwards is clearly trying to be more “web 2.0” than any of the other candidates.
Not surprisingly, he looks silly.
He’s now posting regular updates on Twitter, the uber-buzzy social network populated largely by 20-somethings blogging about playing videogames or ordering […]
