Perhaps things are different in New Zealand, but naming your kid “Superman” as these parents are trying to do is simply cruel. Worse, they tried to name their newborn boy “4Real” but the government registry wisely rejected the attempt.
If you want to be funny don’t make it at your newborn’s expense. The cruel parents, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A German man kept an odd collection of lizards and insects as his pets was fatally bitten by his pet black widow spider, Bettina, and then eaten by his collection of several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites all of which had gorged on his body.
A police spokesman said:
“Giant webs […]
A British teenager has been arrested on suspicion of having posted a video of himself on YouTube driving at speeds of more than 140 mph, police said Thursday. The car, a Ford Escort, was filmed on the A76 single-carriageway road in southwest Scotland.
Two questions remain. First, how was he so stupid? Two, how does one […]
In a lengthy story on the “longevity gap” between whites and blacks, the Los Angeles Times noted the difficulty in pinpointing the causes for the differences between the life expectancies of whites and blacks in California. The article was written in response to the recent release of a study called “Death in the Golden State” […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If they had told me I could use math for things like this I would have paid more attention in High School Algebra:
Jessica Alba, the film actress, has the ultimate sexy strut, according to a team of Cambridge mathematicians.
The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts the sway into […]
In the minds of some people, there is no better use of computers than helping people like Keira Knightley fill roles that they might otherwise not get because of, um, physical limitations. Any decent history buff knows that Guinevere had bigger boobs that Keira which might have kept movie goers away from the picture. But […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Women fearing that they have a cancerous mole will have to wait approximately three times as long than if they were interested in removing wrinkles from their foreheads. This according to a story in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and reported in the New York Times.
“The difference in wait times between […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Apparently you just have to be a “self confessed pedophile” like Jack McClellan.
McClellan who has never been arrested (other than for trespassing on August 14th, 2007) is an LA resident who describes himself as a pedophile and maintains websites called Seattle Tacoma Girl Love and Los Angeles Girl Love. These sites feature pictures of […]
When asked why it was that 20% of American’s can’t even find the United States on a map, Miss Teen South Carolina had this to say…
As a U.S. American, I’m embarrassed that our education hasn’t done more to address the map shortage as well as the people of South Africa, the Iraq, and other Asian […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)It would be less painful and over with faster than this slow death by a million taxes:
Motorists traveling across the state of Pennsylvania on Interstate 80 could pay a $25 tax by the year 2010. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on Friday asked the US Department of Transportation for approval to turn the free and paid-for […]
This article at efinancedirectory.com draws some interesting parallels between the US housing market today and the Japanese housing market during their housing crash of the 1990’s.
Price increases are nothing new, since home values tend to go up over time. What makes this housing bubble different (besides the fact that it is the largest bubble […]
At least if you’re in Tyler Texas
In case you’re interested that is former bikini model Lauren Jones
who I think makes a fine addition to the Channel 19 News Team.
I must say this certainly proves Michael Skube’s point about the difference between blogs and professional journalism:
“What democracy requires,” Lasch wrote in “The Lost Art […]
Maybe I should just sticky a Fidel is dead post at the top of the page given that he seems to die once a week.
Anyway here is the story
h/t Nice Deb
Castro, Dead Commies, Rot in Hell
Source: Email submission from Dirk
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)It’s possible according to this Science article in the New York Times.
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a […]
