Thursday, January 13, 2011

This little piggy...

Rory Freedman (of Skinny Bitch fame) alerted her Facebook followers of this post on The MFA Blog:


(The Yonhap News Agency has more here.)

So when the pigs suffocate and die, the disease just disappears, like magic, forever? It doesn't mess with the soil or groundwater or anything?

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Well, he does!

The Bangor Daily News (of Bangor, Maine) has this gem of a story:

(For bail and court hearing information, click the image.)

She was "allegedly intoxicated," which makes me think she's kind of an angry drunk. Happy drunks are so much more fun, aren't they?

Friday, January 7, 2011

Break the rules in China, and that's what you get.

This is old news now, but a friend just told me about it today when I told him that I heard the zoo in our city starves their big cats so kids can have a guaranteed fun time feeding them dead animals from the end of a stick.

(China Daily doesn't have much else to say about it, but you can click the image if you want.)

I doubted both stories until now.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

What, we four aren't good enough for you?

The Telegraph has this story from Pakistan:

(For the he-said/she-said, click the image.)

Somebody's clearly confused. The man says he only has three wives, and the bitter wives are making it all up. And the first two (the violent ones) had already filed for divorce, anyway.

I want to know what the third one was doing during all of this.

This calls for class action!

Yahoo! was featuring this story on the front page:

(If you really need more than that headline to get your head shaking, click the image.)

Pau Gasol said he got up "past the time." The childish ambiguity is charming, isn't it?

Sometimes a washing machine and a slab of marble just aren't enough.

The Freakonomics blog shares this:

(Click the image for the full story.)

Regardless of where you stand on the pit bull debate, I'm pretty sure we can all agree on the first breed that needs banning. I'll give you a hint: it's not a dog.