Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

"Bob Dole is lending Newt Gingrich the $300,000 to pay off his ethics fine. You know, most Republicans talk about taking money from th...

Silliest Web idea of the week: a site in which a virtual monkey typing on a virtual keyboard to try to reproduce Hamlet's solloloquy.

Evidence of the existence of God: the vacation home of the president of RJ Reynolds was burned down due to a discarded cigarette. Two items ...

A judge in San Diego reduced a murder conviction to manslaughter, saying that the deceased, a neighborhood bully, was a "jerk" who...

Also: a British Royal Marine survives his court martial. He was on a stakeout of a car-smuggling operation in Hong Kong, and shot at a rat....

Responding to the German court decision that Iranian officials ordered assassinations of Kurdish leaders in Berlin, demonstrators in Teheran...

Ok, background: you will remember the man in the chicken suit who followed Bush around when he was stalling on debates. The Tories have stol...

An article in Slate suggests that Clinton's re-election strategy of spending huge amounts of money, garnered from anywhere, for large me...

The Tory holding the safest Tory seat in Scotland resigns his seat after a Tory twofer, committing adultery with a woman he met in rehab. La...

A man showed up for his trial in Wichita for robbing a shoe store wearing a pair of size 10 1/2 boots that.... Liggett gets released from bi...

The newest bill against "partial-birth" abortions includes a provision allowing the father of the fetus to sue a woman who has the...

I just saw Leaving Las Vegas on cable. I couldn't help notice that as Nicholas Cage drank himself to death, he kept running across gor...

The British general election began today. The betting odds are 1-4 in favor of Labour, so you'd have to plunk down a fair amount of mon...

An item I passed on a couple of days ago reminded me of how good New York Magazine competitions can be, so I went to the library today. Evid...

Although it is illegal for US companies to comply with Arab boycott of Israel & Jews, the Air Force, with Justice Dept approval, *ordere...

Common Phrases Redefined A few entries from the New York magazine competition where they asked competitors to change one letter in a familia...

Just saw an ITN story about a 3-legged cat in Ireland ordained a minister over the Internet by the Universal Life Church. I see they haven...

As of the new IRS rules, if you have medical marijuana, you cannot deduct it from your income tax as with other drugs. In last fall's Ge...

Oral sex has been declared illegal in Singapore unless it is practised as a prelude to full sex, the island's Court of Appeal ruled. The...

Rep. Helen Chenoweth said that term limits would get rid of out-of-touch politicians. Still holding those endangered-species campaign BBQs,...