Area woman leaves $500K in jewelry in unlocked car in open garage. Tearful video describing this.

baby animals in zoos.

The hidden scat-singing talents of our vice-presidentiary candidoof.

Third one down is the best. "He kissed my baby but he bit it"  etc.

The rind around the nation is sorta not-free. Great.

FAGROON KLUBBLE KLUBBLE (Food Mart Falling Down)

Dystopian view of the future after Obama’s election. Alarmist, yet illiterate. "…As a result, pornographic magazines are now openly displayed in gas stations, grocery stores, and newsstands.."

the latest on the Third Wave Christian Magick Nuts and their attempt to change everything with D&D techniques

Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite. Unlike conventional composite materials, though, it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.

Area evangelicals believe Kenyan witchcraft is being used to attack the Republican candidates. Daily. At 3 am.

racial caricatures intended as satire of right-wing morons are used by said right-wing morons. goal!

The corpus contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts.

Let me put this bluntly: Hal Lindsey is a very, very bad novelist.

audio stream of 1980s new york hip-hop

First chapter of Dan Moldea’s forgotten investigation of Reagan, the Mob, and MCA in the 80s.

Way scarier than Blackwater, just a lot less notorious.

Dept of stereotypes: fascist homosexual #324234. Played by Graham Nash, I hope.

there is no need to write crappy introductory books now; it’s been automated. hurray?

Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana.

UCLA’s willed body parts guy sold the body parts. "He was originally brought in to clean up the program after the school was accused of mixing medical waste and animal remains with the ashes of human donors."

Reporter spends some quality time with the Taliban.

WHO PUT THIS DICK ON MY BACK? The country asks.

Iran’s eccentric bid to set a world record for making the biggest-ever ostrich sandwich appeared to end in failure today after the evidence was eaten by the hungry watching crowds.

nerf assault rifle with illuminated target designator, flip-up site, clip fed

Do you have any creative fictional or non-fictional stories that include ANYONE from the Lawrence Welk Show…or anyone that has been a part of the Welk legacy? Send them…

A drunk pony was rescued from a swimming pool after gorging on fermented apples and falling into the water.

It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition – to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. And then go mad, babbling about THOSE THINGS…

These are funny. Also: I hate "brand integration" as a euphemism for product placement, which was another euphemism.

Vicious, bigoted demagogue has written an entire book about a Christmas sweater.

So while it is true that we live in a society that demands risky choices, it is one in which the powerful do the choosing, while others do the risking.

big beautiful solar pictures