We produce so much military hardware that eventually the robots and the M-16s, the grenade launchers and the armored vehicles start to pile up. It’s hard to convince Congress you need more when you still have a warehouse full of the stuff in unopened crates. [more...]
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Ihre Papieren, bitte! “Vesselin Dittrich, 64, of Hoboken, said he was involved in a conversation in the PATH station in August 2010 with a woman who yelled at him for supposedly looking at her tattoos. The woman summoned a police officer, who told the two [more...]
This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. In very 21st century elvish-monk style, he hand-illuminated [more...]
It all started when the ten year-olds at Ashbeach Primary School in Ramsey Sy Marys, Cambrigeshire, U.K. brought this note home to their parents: Following our successful visit to Welney Marshes last year, the Ely and District Wildfowlers Association has invited us to go and [more...]
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There is a legend about the great Chicago activist, Saul Alinsky to the effect that after repeated appeals to Mayor Richard Daley fell on deaf ears regarding conditions in some of the city’s poorer neighborhoods he hit upon a unique solution. He enlisted many of [more...]
Adventurer Mark Moffett has found the world’s biggest insect – which is so huge it can eat carrots. The former park ranger discovered the giant weta up a tree and his real life Bugs Bunny has now been declared the largest ever found. He [more...]
Today’s Republican in an orange jumpsuit is former Arapahoe County Colorado Sheriff , Patrick J. Sullivan jr. The former Sheriff (1984-2002) and one time Sheriff of the year was charged with trading meth for gay sex. It all started when a man called 911 [more...]
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