7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making Us Miserable

Scientists call it the naked photo test, and it works like this: Say a photo turns up, of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, whatever. Ask yourself how many people in your life you would trust with that photo. Studies show that for almost ( Read more... )

Have things really changed for gay actors and actresses? (Hat tip to rm)

A NYC taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.

Beautiful pictures of poisonous frogs

Time: 10 Questions for William Shatner

Gay Sheep Fearmongering from PETA turns out to be wrong. I ( Read more... )

One trip on a NYC subway and he'd scurry right back to Japan, thankful that there only the women eat and put on makeup in public: "Women start applying make-up here, there and everywhere in the carriage as though they're sitting in front of the mirror of their dressing board at home! Office ladies are slathering on foundation and you can see their ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives' Committee on International Relations adopted a bipartisan resolution to ask the Japanese government to formally, publicly apologize for sexually enslaving up to 200,000 "comfort women," (a large pecentage of them Korean,) during its colonial occupation of Asia from the 1930's through the end of World War ( Read more... )

Preliminary reports from Australia say Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has died after being stung by a stingray. He leaves behind a wife, daughter and son. CNN Obit. More here.

From the Mighty Gord, a link to "The Phantom Menace," an essay addressing the recent foreign teacher sex-maniac media scandal in Korea. Gord also posted his thoughts. You ( Read more... )

Welcome to the new Solar system, now with one less planet.: “Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the ( Read more... )

"A new restaurant in India's financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country's small Jewish community.'Hitler's Cross', which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they ( Read more... )