(Now if we could only get people in the west to see the inequity of modern life. In my opinion, we are too much under the influence of our mass opiates….If there is hope, perhaps it comes from China….cd) BEIJING (Reuters) – Thousands of residents of a central Chinese city ransacked government offices, trashed cars…
Category: Oddities
other odd stuff
Why Great Minds Can't Grasp Consciousness
At a physics meeting last October, Nobel laureate David Gross outlined 25 questions in science that he thought physics might help answer. Nestled among queries about black holes and the nature of dark matter and dark energy were questions that wandered beyond the traditional bounds of physics to venture into areas typically associated with the…
Gov. Says State May Need To Lower Academic Standards –
(Am I the only person in Hawaii that sees how incredibly stupid this is? Improve the teaching quality by paying teachers better and you don’t have to lower the standards. By lowering the standards we are lowering our common ability to succeed….I can’t tell you how mad this kind of thing makes me and it…
The Seattle Times: Local News: Seattle's
I’m starting to get excited about Burning Man…This story is just a part of why…cd The Seattle Times: Local News: Seattle’s “Machine” a metaphor in motion for Burning Man fest The work inside the aging, red-brick warehouse in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood is the picture of incongruity: A trapeze artist practices between two pieces of black…
Man Pays Speeding Ticket in Pennies
(I’ve always wanted to do that….cd) MOORHEAD, Minn. – A man ticketed for speeding thought he’d get even by paying his fine with 12,000 pennies. But the judge had the final word by making him wait for the change to be counted. “If the person is mad at the cop, why take it out on…
Fake Princess Blows A Million Bucks
( I love it!!! I wish I knew her….cd) NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York woman who posed in high-society circles as a Saudi princess pleaded guilty on Tuesday to grand larceny and insurance fraud and was ordered to a mental hospital. Antoinette Millard, (aka Lisa Miller) 42, used a special credit card to…
Saddams Car moves to the US
Newstimeslive.com A wheel deal::: LINK A year’s service in Iraq gave William von Zehle a host of memories, some good, some bad. The first sergeant in the Danbury-based 411th Civil Affairs Battalion returned home from Baghdad a certified hero for his rescue efforts when terrorists destroyed the United Nations headquarters in the Iraqi capital. He…
Giant catfish caught
(I really don’t get it…why are people suddenly catching so many of the giant catfish I always thought were urban myths….next they’ll be finding alligators in the sewers of NYC…cd) Giant catfish caught A handout picture released Monday Aug. 1, 2005 shows Duncan Rooke, 32, (left) and Stephen Buss, 30, as they haul in a…
Big Girls Don't Cry
(It can’t be easy to find clothes for her…I’ve never seen a giant womens store…cd) Margo Dydek, the polish center for the WNBA Connecticut Sun’s towers over teammates and opponents at 7’2″.
Norway thieves nab copies in bungled Munch theft
(This is two of my favorite subjects wrapped into one…high profile crime and stupid criminals…cd) OSLO (Reuters) – Masked robbers stole three worthless copies of pictures by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch from an Oslo hotel on Wednesday in a bungled raid, almost a year after Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was stolen. Thieves wrenched the…