Locals use it as toilet paper.
Zimbabwe’s central bank is to issue a Z$200,000 banknote to cope with the hyperinflation ravaging the country’s economy.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that Zimbabwe’s year-on-year inflation rate could top 100,000 per cent by the end of the year.
Last month, the government ordered prices to be cut for [...]
In addition to drug scandals, the 07 Tour de France has been dogged by dog collisions. Given that it is one of the largest sporting events in the world you would think that people could have kept their dogs tied up, at least for the few minutes it takes for the peloton to ride by. [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Not to be cruel but Paris Hilton must now wish that her grandfather had passed away before being able to write her out of his will. Speaking of which he also wrote out her 11 cousins and I can only imagine what they’d like to do to her right now. If you are confused, this [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Plaintiff Jose Trujillo was thrilled to get his iPhone, not because he was now able to use the cool new sleek device, but because he could try and make a quick buck suing the deep pocketed creators of it:
Unknown to the Plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, prior to purchase, the iPhone is a sealed [...]
Funny how life works. The LA Times is suffering from a significant revenue decline. One of their columnists, Patrick Goldstein, writes about it and the piece is promptly killed. However it magically appears over at LA Observed where it will probably be one of their biggest stories of the year. The irony is fascinating. The [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)An idea that has been floating around in the back of my head for awhile. Delivering a better education with less (not zero although that might be nice) government involvement.
One of the major complaints of businesses in this country is a growing lack of qualified college graduates. One of the major complaints of [...]
Who would have thought that Antonio Villaraigosa’s libido would be at the center of a $3 billion real estate development and it is illustrating exactly how clouded his judgment is.
After getting caught in his affair with Mirthala Salinas, most serious politicians would have called it off. Not Antonio and he refers to the woman who [...]
Somewhere around a million Angelenos see this daily (though most as part of the distant landscape). Any idea what it is and where it can be found?
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Allah at Hot Air has audio of internet dreamboy / presidential candidate Ron Paul expressing shock that he is associated with the 9/11 Truth movement.
“I read the internet like crazy and I haven’t seen it”
I hate to tell him but consuming the entire neighborhoods bandwidth downloading porn doesn’t really constitute “reading the internet like crazy”. [...]
From Reuters:
Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities.
The company said in a brief statement it would end the print version of the tabloid newspaper next month but would maintain the online [...]
Pirate Ballerina is live blogging today about the firing of Ward Churchill:
Today is the day (or is it?) most of us have been waiting for: The day Professor Ward Churchill is weaned from the public teat. For nearly two decades, Churchill has been lying, fabricating, and plagiarizing his way toward this day, and we’re just [...]
I am starting “The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith” again and as I was flipping thru some of the sections on trade I started questioning; are the World Trade Organization (WTO), General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and various free trade agreements really good for America?
In general I believe they are although I, [...]
It is indeed the summer of sequels, Shrek III, Pirates III, Fantastic Four II, so why not Lohan Bust V. Lohan who once dominated media coverage because of her increasingly prominent figure is now almost solely identified with her inability to get her act together. Less than a month after her PR goons trumpeted her [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Second Life has a clause in the TOS that allows it to prohibit any behavior that is “broadly offensive.” Also, it appears that bestiality is occurring in Second Life. If bestiality isn’t perverted then (in my book) nothing is. From the Second Life Herald:
Where do I find animals in Second Life who want to [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)From Reuters:
Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday.
NAN said its reporter had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children’s laptops.
“Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja [...]
