Finally a website that makes fun of bad punctuation…my personal favorite is the missing comma when someone suggests dining out to Grandma. “Let’s eat out Grandma.” Gross. cd Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Talk to the Hand, Going Loco, Tennysons Gift, Making The Cat Laugh “Call me Ishmael” is different from “Call…
That's not the penis I remember…..
First penis transplant reversed after two weeks – Yahoo! News Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.
Military launches a coup in Thailand – Yahoo! News
BANGKOK, Thailand – The Thai military launched a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday night, circling his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and declaring a provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king. An announcement on Thai television declared that a “Council of Administrative Reform” with King Bhumibol Adulyadej as head…
Shanghai by Bike – September/October 2006 – Sierra Magazine – Sierra Club
I bike daily. Even in Honolulu, a city of a million, I have near misses several times a day. I can only imagine what it is like to bicycle in China. When I was there, seeing hordes of bicyclists riding through Beijing was one of the most inspiring sites of my life. The only thing…
Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go
Can you look at this and say that you are glad you are paying taxes? Did you ever think about not paying? Want to find out more? click here. cd Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go About Death and Taxes: “Death and Taxes” is a representational graph of…
Unfinished Tolkien work to be published
NEW YORK – An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on “The Children of Hurin,” an epic tale his father began in 1918 and…
NY Times account of Catching The Dog
Here in Hawaii, huge crowds demanded that The Dog be let out of jail. When he was finally released, he started to speak to the crowd and was violently hushed by Beth who began cussing at his attorney for letting him speak.We’ll keep you posted… cd Duane Chapman of Dog the Bounty Hunter Finds Himself…
15 years since Nirvana
MTVNews.com: Nirvana — James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Chris Harris Fifteen years ago sure feels like a lot more than 15 years ago. In 1991, the biggest-selling artists in the United States were Metallica, Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd. There was no Internet, no pocket-sized cell phones and no PlayStation. And the name…
IRONIC FILES: Blind inventor killed crossing Oregon highway
The Seattle Times: Local News: Blind inventor killed crossing Oregon highway GLIDE, Ore. – A blind man who invented curbside markers to help the sight impaired was struck and killed while crossing a highway, the authorities said. Kevin Stockton, 47, of Glide was hit by a van traveling on Highway 138 East and then by…
Gore's impossible Dream
I love the guy and everything hse is trying to do, but get serious, the multinational corporations that control our governments are never going to go for raising the cost of doing business, creating an environment where people work less and keep more, or possibly missing out on the huge money they plan to make…