I just took to Facebook to explain a "Where's Waldo" joke one of the Chicago Bears made today.  Our intrepid reporter ran the clip where the Bear-guy said something like, "We need to be really aware of [Minnesota player] on every single play.  He's Waldo."

And the reporter said, "I'd love to know what the Waldo remark was about."

Am I just hyper ( Read more... )

Okay, I get it that no one is infallible and everyone makes mistakes but HOW did this a.) even get written in the first place or b.) get past the editor, the guy who puts the script into the teleprompter AND the actual anchor ( Read more... )

For the last two days the news has been running an article that starts with this exact line:  Police are telling women not to walk alone at night in one neighborhood on the west side.

There have been, apparently, a series of some eight or ten assaults on women walking alone in about a four square block area.  So, you know, the advice that women not ( Read more... )

... who make news ( Read more... )

Okay, pretty much every day for the past two weeks my Google alert on "ferret +pet" has returned a new news agency covering this insane story from Missouri ( Read more... )

• Arizona: This is a senseless, heinous crime. I'm very interested in seeing what the gunman was thinking because I have a macabre fascination with the batshit insane. That said, I get a little pissy that this is going to be *at least* a 48 hour news cycle - it's going to dominate every local and national news broadcast around the country for ( Read more... )

To that very large extent that House sucked, Hawaii 5-0 was oppositely awesome.  Danny really is as cute as is he on the adverts and there isn't one character that leaves me going, "Oh please tell me this dumbass didn't test well and was scrapped after the pilot."  I think it's a keeper ( Read more... )

I am comically stunned by the amount of news coverage today devoted to the guy who DIDN'T eat a metric boatload of hotdogs, but instead got arrested for *protesting* while some other very strange people ate metric boatload of hotdogs ( Read more... )

Okay, seriously, parents of this first offender... you kind of set her up for this.

Woman named Virgen arrested for prostitution.

Tonight's news WTF...

"American Airlines said that they had mechanics on every flight [out of the volcano zone] to keep an eye out for ash damage."

Which leaves me going, "And then what? If they find some, are they supposed to crawl out on the wing and into a *running* jet engine and scrape it off???"