December 17, 2008 – 9:46 am
Usually, these stories tend to focus on Christmas haters doing Christmas hating things. Not today (well, not yet today, anyhow.) Let’s start with how you can help The Marines have been making children’s Christmas dreams come true for nearly 60 years, but the corps may be seeing fewer smiles this year. With demand up due […]
December 16, 2008 – 8:56 am
Your snort worthy Op-Ed from the New York Times. After spending many, many, many paragraphs describing how bad the conflict between Rwanda and Congo has been, including a slight mention of the genocide in Rwanda (but no mention of how many – 850,000 – nor how the United Nations and Clinton looked the other way), […]
December 13, 2008 – 7:52 am
Say, have you heard about all the rioting that has been going on in Greece? Thousands of Greek protesters clashed with riot police yet again in Athens today, as police started to run out of tear gas after battling rioters day and night for a whole week. Police sources said their riot squads had fired […]
December 12, 2008 – 7:56 am
Your “awe, isn’t that cute. Thank God it wasn’t me” story Aw, nuts. That’s likely what Hope Wideup thought when her car’s turn signal and windshield wipers wouldn’t work. It’s also what she found later when she opened the hood. “There were thousands in there. They were everywhere,” she said, speculating a chipmunk found its […]
December 10, 2008 – 8:43 am
I wonder where this story comes from? FIREFIGHTERS were called to a bizarre rescue mission at an NT shopping centre after a little boy climbed up the prize chute of a claw vending machine and got stuck inside with the toys. The toddler is believed to be just 2 1/2 years old. A six-man crew […]
December 9, 2008 – 9:38 pm
And you thought Christina Aguilera music for the Club G’itmo vacationers was bad? Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon. “Stains like the blood on your teeth,” Trent Reznor snarled over distorted guitars. […]
December 2, 2008 – 6:37 pm
Excellence in Motivation, a provider of employee incentive programs for Fortune 500 companies, has laid off 34 of its approximately 250 employees in recent weeks. OK, there is a little bit more to it then that, but, why didn’t they motivate their clients not to cancel?
December 1, 2008 – 12:30 pm
Well, good news! There are cheaper recreations As the credit crunch bites, Britons may be turning to sex as a cheap way to pass the time, a charity says. A YouGov survey of 2,000 adults found sex was the most popular free activity, ahead of window shopping and gossiping. The Scots were most amorous with […]
November 28, 2008 – 10:23 am
Achemed brings up a good point: are the promised 72Â virgins all female? =))
November 27, 2008 – 9:34 pm
um, ah, huh? PSYCHIATRISTS around the world are reporting an increase in the number of people who think their lives are a reality TV show, a condition dubbed “the Truman Show delusion”. Mental health officials in the US and Britain say some psychotic patients are describing their lives as mirroring that of the main character […]
