I really shouldn't find this funny, but good grief: "Landingham then told the judge she was sorry for squashing the father of her children."

/brb trying very, very hard not to laugh.

/...couldn't they just have used 'smothering'?

The history fail. It hurts.

(Yeah, what with all the comparing Obama 's government to the Communist takeover of Russia, these guys seem to forget that the Communists were the ones who got rid of the Czar.)

And now for something completely different, and a good deal nicer too.

I have been discussing Twilight with a friend of mine. When we got to the subject of Bella's 'freesia-scented blood', he got rather confused and asked why Edward didn't just eat freesias instead, since surely that would be more cricket than tearing Bella's throat out at some point and easier than restraining himself from doing so. "It would take ( Read more... )

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

Everyone and his dog has jumped on this bandwagon. No surprise there- it is a truly lolworthy one. I first heard about it on 'Mock the ( Read more... )