The Winners
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Rathergate.com: For a website with the URL Rathergate.com, this is like winning the Powerball lottery.

Mark Cuban: His hiring of Rather for his fledging HD network has been a high-definition bust. Cuban hoped that Rather would have PR value, something that has not been the case at least until now.

Conservative bloggers: Even though […]

Reuters calls it heartwarming, and I guess when you get over the shock of seeing him it is.
This young man was hosting the world’s largest tumor (23 kilos) in his head. This picture is after the surgery.

If you think it’s Photoshop then click on this link to watch the video of him eating.
The real […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Source: Email submission from Dirk

…because they are all dead. I know this because I just scanned the exhaustive list of dead recording artists at RockandRollBadBoy.
I was shocked at how young some of them were when they died or how I had completely missed, or forgot, when others (like Wendy O. Williams who killed herself in 98) did their […]

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 […]

Ugly People Pictures!

There are a lot of ugly people in the world. Fortunately there is a web site for them.

Most popular British boy’s name is Jack. But the real story is what’s #2: Muhammad.
From the BBC:
The official register of names puts Mohammed at number 23, but an analysis of the top 3,000 names puts Muhammad in second place once the different spellings are taken into account.
Thomas, Joshua and Oliver rounded out the […]

Oh wait, No it doesn’t. Computer simulation shows hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.
JUST LIKE EVERY NORMAL PERSON IN THE WORLD THOUGHT!
The 3-D animation, part of a Purdue study that took 2½ half years to complete, could help […]

Wie’s woes continue…

Michelle Wie: Even her looks can’t bail her out
Michelle Wie has had a difficult past year, all of which she has brought upon herself. First she goes from being a darn good female golfer to the worst mail golfer ever. Next is the rule bending. Credibility is important in golf, or at least […]

So says the Detroit News in response to the state legislature’s plan to purchase an iPod for every schoolchild in Michigan.
We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, […]

The NY Times reports today that Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela is undergoing a shortage of basic food stuff’s that seems attributable to the price controls he put in place.
Faced with an accelerating inflation rate and shortages of basic foods like beef, chicken and milk, President Hugo Chávez has threatened to jail grocery store owners […]

Adam Smith, author of “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” is to be honored by appearing on the new 20 pound note according to the Bank of England:

Making the announcement yesterday, Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, said, “It is such a pleasure to use the occasion of the […]