2010


“The White One Wants My Flesh”

A minor dispute, but one that generated two excellent quotes. On September 16, a dog owner in Lafayette, Colorado (near Boulder) was ticketed after an altercation involving himself, his two dogs and a local cyclist.  Peter West was walking his…


Lawyer Sued After Delivering Belly Bump, Sucker Punch

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that an attorney who works with "The Heavy Hitter" Glen Lerner has been sued for allegedly hitting somebody in the face at a charity golf tournament.  Brian Walsh alleges that associate Benjamin Lund "sucker punched"…


International House of Prayercakes

If I told you that IHOP was looking forward to the "great end-time harvest of souls," would you find someplace else to have breakfast?  If so, then there might be something to the new lawsuit by IHOP against IHOP —…



Banjo Wielded

I concede this one is at least slightly off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway.  It's breaking news from my hometown of Kansas City: Charges filed in Overland Park banjo self-defense case Police say the Monday banjo blow to…


Georgia Town Enters Fight Against Sagging Pants

One of the continuing stupid issues I monitor here is the War on Sagging that still rages across this land. It seems like only yesterday, but was in fact two years ago, that a Florida judge struck down an anti-low-pants…


Genghis Khan Causing Trouble Again

That’s Genghis Khan of Brooklyn, New York, not the one from Mongolia. The Genghis Khan from Mongolia once controlled the largest land empire in history and caused untold destruction and possibly millions of deaths in the course of getting it….


Witch-Regulation Bill Fails to Pass in Romania

Romanian lawmaker Alin Popoviciu is blaming fear for the failure of a bill he sponsored that would have imposed new regulations and taxes on witches and fortune tellers.  He claimed that the legislation had failed because lawmakers were afraid they…


Yet Another Reason Not to Wrestle Your Snake in the Parking Lot

The Associated Press reports that "[t]wo men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police [in Melbourne] said Thursday." I don't think the diners…