As of late there have been reports circulating the underground press that Chuck Norris is running out of dining chairs. Could it be that as the third weapon of choice (the first being his roundhouse kicks and the second being his fist) there’s actually a shortage of dining chairs in the furniture market?
Word on the […]
Although parenting doesn’t stop when a mother goes to prison, the Ohio Reformatory for Women is one of very few prisons that addresses this problem. It has a program for non-violent, short-term offenders, who are pregnant or have infants. These mothers live in a special wing of the prison, where they’re able to have their […]
The Amazon is being deforested three times faster in 2008 than in 2007. Brazil’s Environmental Minister attributes this to Amazon-region mayors ignoring illegal logging to get votes. Greenpeace attributes this to soy farmers and cattle ranchers clearing more land to profit from the rise in food prices. Although satellite imagery showed that 292 square miles […]
This article takes a look at the likely outcome of the end of this Premiership season. Please note that as the season has not been played out it is impossible to accurately predict the outcome. None of the events that are mentioned in this article have actually happened yet and it could be argued that […]
So you’ve finally made it through the day. Boredom is beaten, battered, bruised and broken, lying defeated at your feet. You march out of the office into the glorious outside world, free at last, free to cast off the shackles of rules and regulations and do whatever you want. You have precious few hours until […]
Sitting at my desk, and every time I look at the clock it seems to be the same time. Three hours until I go home, little bit of work, e-mail, still three hours to go home. Days like this can be very difficult to get through, much like eating a bucket of rancid fish heads […]
Because Anthrax is easily treated if caught early, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to use volunteer, government mail carriers to deliver emergency antibiotics to areas affected by anthrax attack. According to the plan, mail carriers will have advance supplies of antibiotics to protect themselves and their families; and they’ll be escorted […]
The year is split into twelve months. These months help to signify the seasons and break up the year into easily manageable chunks. Each bitesize year portion is given a different name, each based on some old-school mythology. In this article I will say where these names come from.
January is the first month of the […]
The week is traditionally made up of seven days of equal length and depth. Depending on your preference, the week starts with either Monday or Sunday and ends with either Saturday or confusingly Sunday again. The names of the days of the week are based either on numerical or planetary meanings, such as Saturday which […]
Because of the faltering economy more Americans are eating Spam. Although this has contributed to a 14% profit increase for the Hormel Company, Spam has been popular in Hawaii since being introduced there during WWII and today more is sold there per capita than anywhere else in the U.S. In fact, Hawaiian cookbook author Muriel […]
