How could anyone go to the Senate with a name like “Rand”?
[Wednesday morning update]
I’ve had to shut down comments on this post. It was hit with two hundred spams overnight, for some reason.
Category Archives: Weird
An Amusing Facebook Page
Jim Treacher’s busted-up knee. Nice way to make material out of a hit’n’run. But if he sets up a Facebook page for any other body parts, I don’t want to hear about it.
An Interesting Head Case
Alcor just won a lawsuit to allow them to disinter a body that had been buried for two years, and cryonically suspend the rotted head.
Yes, it’s pointless, as far as that patient went (as far as I’m concerned, his family murdered him), but Alcor had to do this, to assure their other customers that it would do whatever was necessary to fight for them, and fulfill its contractual responsibilities. It was also a useful reminder to obstreperous relatives that they have to obey the wishes of the deceased. What’s particularly disgusting about this is that it appears they did it for the money. I thought it seemed like chutzpah to prevent Alcor from fulfilling the contract, then demanding the money back for it.
Fountain Of Youth?
This is interesting. A seventeen-year-old girl who has the biological age of one year old. The question is, how does development relate to aging? What will happen to her in another forty or fifty years? It would be nice to not have to wait that long to discover the secret. And of course, it’s tough luck that she didn’t get stuck in a seventeen-year-old’s body.
A Scientific Experiment
I can conclude, based on two samples, that cats don’t like refried beans.
This is actually good news, since at least one of them sleeps on a pillow by my head.
North Korean Jokes
More disturbing than hilarious.
[Via Geek Press]
Johnnie Cash, She’s Not
A woman was arrested in Plover, Wisconsin, for shooting people with a blowgun, because she “liked to hear them say ‘ouch.'”
I guess that’s the difference between Reno and Plover.
[Update later afternoon]
McGehee has the song about the saga in comments (with a slight mod by me):
When she was just a baby,
Her mama told her, “Sweetheart,
Always be a good girl
And don’t shoot blowgun darts.”
But she shot some folks in Plover,
Just to hear them say “Ouch.”
Now the state’s going to remand her
To a psychiatrist’s couch.
That’ll be Top Forty material all the way from Wausau to Waukesha.
And Now For Something Completely Different
A weightless dog.
He (or she) doesn’t seem that upset about it. Probably not the first time.
[Via Stephen Gordon]
Physician, Heal Thyself
John Conyers says that the “tea baggers” have an anger problem. And a rationality one:
“We are here now to understand the frustration of the tea baggers and the people who are angry,” said Conyers. “Many times when you’re angry, your rational abilities are compromised.”
Well, Rep. Conyers must have spent his entire life in a state of rage, then. Apparently his wife is the brains in that family. And that’s no compliment to her.
A Vital Decision Tree
This should be magnetted on every refrigerator door.