Monday, May 30, 2005Good Thing He Didn't Have A GunDean Craig, a 46-year-old, Geneva, Illinois man set his own house on fire after he asked his two houseguests to leave and they refused. Apparently, he poured rubbing alcohol onto the floor and lit it with a match. He is being charged with felony arson. When authorities arrived, the two-story house,... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, May 29, 2005Austrian Lawmaker Taking Shit Just A Little Too FarAn Austrian lawmaker is fed up with dog droppings in Vienna, so he has proposed that all dogs be registered and have a sample of thier DNA on file so that when a dog leaves a unrequested sample in a public place, the droppings can be analyzed and the owner can be found and fined. At present, the law... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 25, 2005Dying For A CigaretteI heard a story on the way to work this morning about an Arkansas man who got a friend of his to be his designated driver on a drinking night. After the man got drunk, he got his friend to drive him home. Somewhere along the way, he lit a cigarette. Moments later, he tossed it out the window, but,... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, May 21, 2005Slow News Days And Vending MachinesYou know it's going to be a slow news day when all you see and hear is the story of the kid that crawled up into a vending machine at Wal-Mart. It seems that the child inserted himself up through the drop chute of one of those plush doll vending machines after he'd been refused the money to play the... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, May 15, 2005Dave Chapelle Ain't Crazy; He's Rich, Bee-otch!Rumors have surrounded the stressed-out comedian Dave Chapelle ever since Comedy Central Network put his half-hour show's production on hold and Chapelle flew off to South Africa. It was rumored that the popular comedian had checked himself into a rehab, that he was crazy, that he was kicking a drug... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, May 11, 2005You Call That A Mistranslation?In an AOL new story on Bush's recent visit to Georgia, the former Soviet republic: "There were many young people horsing around during the speeches - especially when the translation was muffled and the speech unintelligible - and some threw plastic bottles at one another for entertainment." Note the... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, May 7, 2005Political HumorFormer Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart a couple nights ago. Mr. Ridge, it seems, has a very good sense of humor. He's very personable and quick on his feet. When Stewart asked (in his fake melodramatic serious voice) Ridge to come on and tell us, were any of... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, April 27, 2005Meet Me At WalMart In The Lingerie/Automotive SectionJust when you thought WalMart had just about expended all of its idea to make billions, they come up with another twist intended to part you from your hard earned money: a dating service. Yeah, it's called "Singles Night" or some such, and the trial run has been going on over in Germany for a year... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, April 23, 2005A Jewish MotherThe Virgin Mary has been seen again. This time in a salt-stain runoff under the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago. Hundreds are filing past the police cordoned area to leave flowers and candles to honor the image. Some say it's a miracle. Others, simply a stain. What do I see? In my blog Stalking The... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, April 16, 2005Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Are Slime -- Mold Beetles, That IsTwo Cornell University entymologists, Quentin Wheeler and Kelley Miller, were set the task of naming 65 new species of slime mold beetles, so they applied the names of some pretty famous people for three of the bugs. The bugs were named Agathidium bushi Miller and Wheeler, Agathidium cheneyi Miller... Sign in to see full entry. |