Video: Grandma Defeats Six Crooks With Handbag
This is fantastic. At first she seems to have thought it was a fight, and headed over to break it up or at least get a closer look. But “[w]hen I got closer to them I realised it was…
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Alan Simpson on the Deficit: “Give Them the Green Weenie”
Alan Simpson, who was a senator from Wyoming and more recently a co-chair of the president's deficit commission (don't remember that? Neither does anybody in Washington) is renowned for his "colorful language." He reinforced that reputation recently by saying this…
UPDATE: City to Legitimize Mystery Stop Signs, Report Says
As I noted last year, the city of Cranston, Rhode Island, had a puzzler on its hands after it came to the city's attention that there were hundreds of unauthorized stop signs on its streets, installed by a person or…
Sarah PalinTM Having Trouble With Registration
I suppose it should not be surprising that Sarah Palin has filed an application to register her name as a trademark. But having learned that, it is not at all surprising that the application was rejected because she forgot to…
Iraqi Treasury Gets Partial Refund on Magic Wands
“Dowsing rods” might be a better term for these, but either way they were completely bogus.
Man Points Finger at Brain in Parking-Rage Incident
A British man who attacked a car with an axe and then set fire to it blamed his brain for the incident, according to a January 27 report in the Herald Express. The brain's alleged involvement was especially surprising because the…
Ninth Circuit Rules in Favor of the “Association of Irritated Residents”
The plaintiffs won, and that's all I am going to pass on about this opinion on an environmental-law issue, which (no offense meant to environmental-law practitioners) is dull enough to serve as a sleep aid for Charlie Sheen. EPA provides as an example…
Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
I guess this would be cheaper than getting a divorce. According to the Daily Mail, an immigration officer who worked for the UK Border Agency managed to get his wife out of his hair for three years by putting her…
Maine Bill Would Allow One-Armed Men to Use Switchblades
Despite the chaos in the Middle East, rising sea levels and dwindling oil reserves, the asteroid that is likely hurtling toward Earth as you read this, and worst of all, the possibility that there might be another sequel to "The…
Airport Security Officials Successfully Disarm Toy Soldier
Is it better or worse to know that airport security in other countries can be as stupid as ours? I can't decide. A Canadian couple that visited the Royal Signals Museum during a trip to the UK said that officials…