It’s so boring that a local preacher is on a campaign to stamp out…well…what he sees as smut.
From the AP:
If the Rev. David Baer has his way, the Whitewood City Council will change the name of one of the northern Black Hills town’s streets.
Hooker Street doesn’t quite lend itself to a family atmosphere and [...]

Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of four family members and a farmhand, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18 inches of liquefied cow manure may never be known, authorities said.
No autopsies were planned, in part because investigators believed the deaths on a Rockingham County dairy farm were accidental, [...]

Now see, I heard about this from a couple of people. I seriously thought they were blowing smoke.
Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe — a batter mix made with Coca-Cola syrup, a drizzle of strawberry syrup, and some strawberries.
Balls of the [...]

The cover up is in full effect.
Authorities have refused to release video and audio tapes of Mel Gibson’s drunken driving arrest, saying the material is part of an “investigatory file” and exempt from the California Public Records Act.
TMZ, a celebrity news Web site, had asked Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca for tapes of the [...]

After being pulled over for drunk driving, Mel Gibson allegedly spewed hateful comments about Jews at the arresting officer. The incident got weirder when the Sheriff’s office apparently attempted to sweep the matter under the rug according to TMZ.com. Here is his mug shot from the July 28 incident.

It looks more like a head [...]

Words cannot encompass the amusement that oozes from my person.
Beer company executive, chief commercial pitcher and former Senate candidate Pete Coors confirmed Thursday he was cited in May for driving under the influence of alcohol after leaving a friend’s wedding celebration.
You just can’t make up shit like this.
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When higher education puts the stress on “high”. Columbia University and UC Berkeley sat down and decided to try and figure out why UN diplomats don’t pay their parking tickets. Um, ok.
Their main finding was that diplomats were more likely to run up unpaid parking fines if they hailed from countries with a history of [...]

From the “by-catch doesn’t bother us - we’re dolphin safe” files… I’m supposing that the NSA is having a public relations week that makes the release of Sneakers look like a promo film for half crazed interventionist fake-government organized crime - HOLY SHIT - WHO KNEW IT WAS A DOCUMENTARY!!!!!
How is the plot of [...]

From the “Please ignore the 325MW gas turbine behind the curtain” files… a sainted group of warriors for truthiness in New Jersey (the Garden State) have come up with a proposed law which:
would make it a crime — punishable by up to 18 months in jail — to photograph, videotape or otherwise record for an [...]

From the “get a helmet” section, after having lived in the US for several years I was quite caught off guard by the war cry of the American worker. “That’s not my job” was a phrase that I encountered time and again. The shift to a position of convenience these days is illustrated in graphic [...]