Oh, you silly royals. Always getting into mischief. The British press is in a tizzy over Prince William’s choice of transportation to his cousin’s stag party- a Chinook helicopter that costs about $10,000 an hour to keep in the air. From CBC: The 25-year-old prince took off in a Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter for [...]
Well, Iran’s moron-in-chief launched another dinger today, claiming that the official account of 9/11 is ‘suspicious’ and was used as a pretext to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Oh, he also questioned the bodycount. True, 9/11 was used as a primary reason for the invasions. But to suggest that the USA did it on purpose, or [...]
Well, ninety-six years to the day after the greatest millenial monument to mankind’s hubris- aka the RMS Titanic- went to an ignominious and watery grave, we may be a little closer to figuring out why the ‘unsinkable’ ship proved to be, in fact, spectacularly sinkable. A few clever sciencey types have analyzed construction records and [...]
In 1999, Nicholas White became trapped in an elevator. For 41 hours. Yes. Forty-one. Hours. 2,460 minutes. Jesus. And it basically ruined his life. In pursuit of a lawsuit, White stopped coming to work and was fired. And in the end, the owner of the building settled for a tiny fraction of White’s $25 million [...]
It started off as a nice little story about drunken men harassing dolphins. But the write-up it got in The Guardian is epic. After a night of drinking at a house party, two young men in Sandgate, UK went for a swim. Once in the water, they encountered a dolphin. And, being drunk, they decided [...]
You’ve probably heard the news that Vanilla Ice, aka Robert Van Winkle, was arrested yesterday for domestic assault. The temptation is to chuckle and add this to the rolling disaster that is Mr. Van Winkle’s career/life/legacy. But not me. The truth is, I think we’re all a little responsible for the tragedy of taste and talent [...]
The British National Party, everyone’s favourite band of xenophobic, proto-fascists inbred frogspawn has sunk to an all new low. Despite literally decades of anti-semitism, they are now actively courting Jewish voters by exploiting anti-Islamic sentiments. Ruth Smeeth, of the Community Security Trust, had this to say about the new campaign: “The BNP website is now one [...]