By me, anyway. A candidate who will appear on the ballot only as “The Pirate Captain” is running for student body president at North Carolina State University. His platform includes expanding bus lines to “haul more cargo” and opening meetings…
Swedish clothing maker Lindex said this week that it had decided to stop selling a controversial line of childrens’ clothes that a Norwegian cabinet minister had criticized as “bikinis on small children.” “It is remarkably daft to make bra-like bikinis…
Rhode Island Senator Roger Badeau says he was appalled when Red Sox players participated in an autograph-signing event in his state last year and charged children $200 per autograph. Feeling that the state need to send a message that sports…
Juggler Says, ‘God Told Me to Come’ St. Petersburg Times Online
“Among [Court TV’s] new reality series: ‘Get Me Bruce Cutler!’ with John Gotti’s former lawyer going to small-town America to work on some small-time cases; ‘Las Vegas Law,’ in which lawyer Bucky Buchanan is followed as he defends people who…
In late 2002, New York City ran an anti-domestic-abuse ad campaign that pictured men behind bars with captions such as “Successful executive. Devoted churchgoer. Abusive husband.” The four male models who agreed to be pictured as the abusers are now…
Police in Bay City, Michigan, reported that a 12-year-old boy who had come to a local mall to sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap returned the next day and punched the Bunny repeatedly in the face. Bryan Johnson, who plays…
No one was injured during the crime, although the banana reportedly was “badly bruised.”
Sumo World Says “No Thanks” to Pants The report notes that Japan’s professional sumo association has rejected a request that children be allowed to compete in “sumo pants,” something like bike shorts, rather than the traditional butt-exposing “mawashi,” so that…
Last week I reported that Butte, Montana, was apparently plagued by leprechauns around St. Patrick’s Day. This week it’s pirates in Louisiana. Police in New Iberia said they had arrested a man in connection with the robbery of a Food…