I never understood why Connie Chung had any kind of job in the news industry, but this, an apparent adieu to MSNBC (whence she just got canceled, and where does one go from there?) makes me wonder how many bottles of hooch she had to down before she allowed it to be captured digitally, forever.

Here’s a story about a deer that (supposedly) befriended a dying cat:

Margie Scott was devastated when her 9-year-old cat Sammy was diagnosed with kidney failure, but she never could have predicted what would give her comfort during her pet

The Germans are afraid of toy airplanes.

The Germans are afraid of toy airplanes.

The Germans are afraid of toy airplanes.

I’m number three on a Google search for “wife s3x gropies.”

No, I didn’t find this by searching on those terms. It was in my referrer logs.

Anyone who would want to do this just seems like an alien being to me. Of course, I never understood mosh pits, either.

But then, maybe the wikipedia entry explains it:

In many Western cultures, there are very few outlets for a youth’s natural inclination toward violence…

That’s why it is alien to me. I have never in my life, not as a kid, not as an adolescent, not now, had a “natural inclination toward violence.” I don’t even like to squish bugs (except the computer kinds). Perhaps I’m “unnatural.”

And in rereading the article, it makes me wonder about the perspicacity of the people involved:

“You get to be a superhero for a night,” Klimanis said. “We have to go to work every day. We’re constantly told to buy things we don’t need, and just for a couple hours we have the freedom to do what we want to do.”

He’s “told every day to buy things he doesn’t need.” Really? If so, so what? Is someone holding a gun to his head? Has he no willpower? Is his house filled with things that he bought via this mindwashing? Is his only recourse to advertising and having to make a living to go out and beat people up?

What a maroon.

…springs to life in England:

Single Paul, of St Leonards, East Sussex, told how he yelled that he would report the railman

Why didn’t George Bush do something to prevent this tragedy?

Boo Boo, the chicken who was revived after she was found floating face down in the family pond in February, died recently, said owner Jackie Calhoun. The fowl’s story was featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Animal Planet network.

“She had seizures,” Calhoun said. “I’ve come to the conclusion that’s what put her in the pond in the first place.”

The legend lives on, though:

“We incubated one of her eggs, and it hatched,” Calhoun said. “The chick has black and white markings like Boo Boo’s.”

…sitting in a tree. K I S S I N…well, OK, maybe not. But they are sitting in a tree.

Really.