The Buddha taught that it is possible for sentient beings to end all suffering by seeking to realize a dimension of awareness, called Nirvana, that is entirely calm and peaceful. In the meantime, though, one of those little statues of him will go right through a windshield if you chuck it hard enough.
"I think the current system is rigged, frankly, in favor of the wealthy," said Newt Gingrich last month. By which he meant, of course, people wealthier than him. "It is fairly hard to compete with a billionaire," he said, "if they get to spend all the money they want and the middle-class candidate"—who, in this telling, is Newt Gingrich—"is raising money in $2,500 units." According to CNN, Newt had to scrape by last year on a meager $2.4 million disbursement from Gingrich Productions, Inc., "part of the tangled web of businesses" he reportedly maintains.
If you want to drive your Flintstones car in Germany, you're going to have to choose between safety and authenticity. Police there reportedly have refused to let Sebastian Trager take his replica Flintmobile on the road for safety reasons, apparently because it does not have lights, turn signals, windscreen washers, etc. (It does have an engine.) "[W]e don't even have a windscreen," Trager said, "so we gave up."
Also in Germany, a university is suing one of its students for graduating too quickly and so depriving it of the full tuition payments it had expected to receive. Marcel Pohl managed to complete an 11-semester economics and management program in just three semesters, an achievement that the university honored with a lawsuit. "Performance is supposed to be worth something," Pohl said, proving he didn't actually learn anything.
The problem with wearing a sombrero during a robbery is that it makes you easier to ID later—or maybe that's the problem with not taking it off afterward. I'm actually not sure this counts as a robbery, because the victim said he was close enough to the suspect that he could tell there were no rounds in his revolver, but gave him $1 anyway. Giving a dollar to a sombrero-capped assailant who forgot to load his gun really sounds more like charity. Still, the victim called it in. Police did not have too much trouble finding the bandido, because he was out on his balcony when they arrived, still wearing the hat. ¡Olé!
