What do you do if you are an LA Times staff writer and you get caught sending out the above image to your bosses at the LA Times via a posting to your Facebook friends?
If you are LA Times’ David Sarno then you concoct the following story and try to shift the focus away […]
This lawsuit abuse comes from Spain and is wrong on so many levels that we don’t even need to add our customary snide commentary:
A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist in Spain is suing the boy’s parents over damage to his luxury car.
Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado’s […]
Like any sane person we here at Independent Sources enjoy picking apart the columns of Paul Krugman, but pleasurable activities can be pursued to the point of obsession. I have to wonder if that isn’t the case with this article by Daniel B. Klein with Harika Anna Barlett in the current Econ Journal […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A study conducted at the Spanish University of Granada (but almost certainly equally applicable to the U.S. with our culture of victimhood) has found that:
…nearly half of the people who go to court feign psycho-cognitive disorders with the objective of profiting from this in some way. They are not hypochondriacs or overanxious or obsessive patients, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Proving that no idea ever really goes out of style Hillary Clinton is stealing her economic plans from the Chavez / Mugabe playbook.
And why not? It’s worked well for Venezuela, where although the government doesn’t officially control all private businesses, price controls, currency controls, a tendency to intervene in the market and […]
Atlanta is trying to undo decades of failed social experiments and poverty programs. In a Los Angeles Times article on housing for Atlanta’s poor came this:
Conswayla Gardner, 35, [pictured above left] who supports seven children with a $7-an-hour cleaning job and struggles to buy items such as washing powder and toothpaste, said she simply could […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When I read that the “victims” of the tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo had hired Mark Geragos it struck me as odd. After all Geragos is best known for defending scumbags. Why would people who had been mauled need a defense attorney anyway? Could it be that they weren’t the virtuous as Geragos […]
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There is funny and there is funny. This is definitely both. I ask who of us wouldn’t also have fallen asleep while speaker after speaker drone on and on and on without making a point.
h/t: email note from reader “NYC Bookie”
Yikes!
Of course the above is easiest thing to parody in the world…
the parody video Tom Cruise WANTS you to see! on FunnyOrDie.com
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)This should make Stevo and our other readers from Texas quite happy as a favorite son took home first prize in the annual Darwin Awards. Here is the winning story:
HOUSTON — Investigators say a woman caused her husband’s death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning.
The enema caused his blood alcohol level […]
Strong gusts expected to meet moist inversion layer or at least
he hopes it will…
“Well, mine is this big!”
Source: Our friends at testosterona
Growing numbers of economists are sounding warnings that rising cost pressures and wages in China mean that it may be starting to export inflation. Analysts fear that the era when Britain and other big Western economies could depend on steadily falling prices for Chinese imports to keep a lid on inflation and allowing their economies […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Move over Steve Erhardt, you’ve got nothing on the woman in the video below. Like you, she has received painful butt implants via cosmetic surgery. However something has gone very wrong with them and she is so mad at her plastic surgeon that she (literally) dropped her pants for the cameras to show why.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Wondering what to do with your collection of old LPs. How about posing with them? I’m not sure if this is an art project or just a guy with way too much time on his hands. Either way follow this link to see many more.
h/t: Florida Bill
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)and given the fork sticking out of a piece of her that was on a plate, the idea that he ate part of her probably isn’t a huge stretch either.
TYLER, Texas (AP) — A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was […]
