Dr. Ruth ain’t nuthing to fuck wit! Another reason India is terrifying. What rock star had the best (or worst, depending on your perspective) stage banter? Find out here. The horror. This guy had a great sense of humor.
Archive for November, 2011
So the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that’s so hell bent on preventing you from flying with big tubes of toothpaste or contact lens solution missed five out of seven fake bombs federal inspectors tried to sneak through. Disappointing? Of course, but pretty much par for the course when dealing with a federal bureaucracy, and I [...]
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has pledged to pursue a national ban on indoor smoking in all public places, which is far as I know is the most extreme stance taken on the issue by any candidate, Democrat or Republican. (See video of the statement here.) The worst part of the whole thing is the [...]
This is old news–from early June actually, making it millenia old in blog terms–but it’s interesting nonetheless. This Technology Entertainment Design conference was held in Tanzania, so naturally many of the topics concerned Africa and its development. Apparently, foreign aid was none too popular among the speakers, except one very vocal one: But the second, [...]
This is simultaneously one of the most depressing and uplifting stories I’ve read this year. I can’t really say much more about it than that; just read it.
Let this be a lesson to you: if you got to Japan, skip the water parks. Here’s another lesson: don’t get drunk and jump into a bear cage. A retired construction worker is building a lifesize replica of Stonehenge….by himself. A ban on skullfucking? Is nothing sacred? Finally, two words: camel rape.
Last night, I expressed my frustration that the government is probably going to end up killing the fifty dogs left at Michael Vick’s kennel. Even though it’s pretty much a moot point, I think my roommate and I came up with a decent solution: give the dogs to Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. He could [...]
Newsweek reports on the recent explosion of private universities in the developing world: Independent universities are nothing new in the West. But since colonial times, higher ed in Latin America, Asia and Africa has been a virtual government monopoly. Tuition was heavily subsidized or free. This began to change late last century, however. The international [...]
Apparently, there are another fifty-three pit bulls that were being raised by Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels, and guess what the federal government plans to do with them: Federal prosecutors declined to comment Wednesday on the seized dogs. Typically, when confiscated property goes unclaimed, the government asks the court to have the items declared forfeited. [...]
In case you don’t follow financial markets, here is a brief recap of the biggest story as of late. During the housing boom, a bunch of people with relatively bad credit bought houses using sub-prime mortgages. Now–surprise, surprise–they are defaulting at above average–but not catastrophic–rates. So this has been playing havoc with the stock market [...]
