Do You Really Think Moses Was Stoned?
My favourite headline for this news story was The Guardian‘s: “Moses Was Stoned When He Set the Ten Commandments.” But the story itself is both amusing and appalling. Whatever happened to the scientific method? To proof? Because this Benny Shanon doesn’t want to believe in supernatural events, he wants, instead, to speculate that more than […]
Our Mayor Gets a Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Car!
Local news is reporting that our city’s mayor gets a leased Cadillac Escalade as part of his job. One of the local stations asked how viewers feel about that. How do I feel about the fact that the mayor has a car that costs $1150 a month — a sum that is paid for out […]
Taking Things TOO Far
Three kids did a really dumb thing, and the grown-ups in their school are going way overboard in punishing them. The kids got the “bright” idea to set up a myspace account, impersonating a teacher at the school. They apparently managed to keep it up for three days, and, of course, word spread around school, […]
This Is Just SO Wrong!
There is a family in our area that is trying to regain custody of their daughter after giving her up to foster care when she was a few weeks old. She’s now eight years old. The Baker family has reared this little girl for eight years; they are what she knows as “her family.” Her […]
Clueless People!
X is so clueless. He won’t watch television, which I can respect. But he apparently doesn’t read the paper, check online news, or listen to the radio. I found this out on Friday, when I heard and read the reports of the terrible storms in Washington State. My ex has family in the Seattle-Tacoma area, […]
Was It The Bride’s Gun, Or the Groom’s?
A wedding party in Serbia caused a two-seater sports plane to crash, seriously injuring the two men riding in the plane—neither of whom, incidentally, appears to have had a pilot’s license. How on earth did a wedding party cause an aircraft to crash? They were shooting their guns into the air and shot through the […]
Apotemnophilia—Now That’s Bizarre
I first became aware of this very unusual disorder some years ago, after scanning through a medical journal looking for information on a completely different topic. I was both fascinated and horrified. What would make an otherwise normal and healthy person want to have a healthy and functioning part of his body removed? Apotemnophilia, you […]
Wrong House Destroyed — Demolition Crew Facing Unemployment
A lady in Phoenix might have been homeless tonight after a demolition crew tore down her house by mistake. The AP reports that the demolition crew was supposed to tear down the house across the street, but poorly marked house numbers made it difficult for the demolition crew to identify the house they were to […]
Danica as Role Model
This is a departure for me. I don’t do sports. And I don’t usually admit to liking NASCAR … the people I work and socialize with associate NASCAR with drunken rednecks, and that’s not the image I want to portray (because I am neither). But FOX’s article on Danica Patrick is right on, and I […]
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