High school students' hands partially severed during tug-of-war match.

In other festive homecoming news, a Westcliffe teenager died after slipping off a float and getting run over by the tractor.  Jesus.  Whatever happened to just drinking 'til you puked at the homecoming dance?

No, I'm not talking about the body spray that supposedly makes you irresistible to hot women.  This is the game of tag, played on playgrounds the world over . . . except the playground at Discovery Canyon Campus school in Colorado Springs:

An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or ( Read more... )

Florida State Rep. Bob Allen explains why he offered $20 to an undercover cop to give him a blow job:

"This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," Allen, who is white, told police in a taped statement after his arrest. Allen said he feared he "was about to be a statistic" and would have said ( Read more... )

Jerry Falwell is dead at 73.

I know it's generally bad karma to disrespect the dead, but I don't really believe in karma.  So forgive me if I don't shed a tear for this hypocritical, self-righteous, homophobic, anti-Semitic piece of shit.  Good riddance, fucker.

Hey 9/11 conspiracy theorists!  Still think fuel can't burn hot enough to buckle steel?  Suck it:

Heat exceeded 2,750 degrees and caused the steel beams holding up the interchange from eastbound I-80 to eastbound Interstate 580 above to buckle and bolts holding the structure together to melt, leading to the collapse, California Department of ( Read more... )

I guess it would be ironic, given the nature of his "crusade", to say that Jack Thompson deserves to be shot in the face.  But really, the man is a menace to liberty ( Read more... )

I'll admit: this is pure rant-y speculation.  That said:

I just have one question about the Virgina Tech massacre: how the fuck did this psycho shoot someone in a dorm and then hang out for two hours before shooting even more people in a classroom across campus?  Where the fuck was the police response?  Was the SWAT team doing another drug raid on ( Read more... )

[cross-posted from libertarianism]

The story I linked to about a regional government in Belgium imposing a barbecue tax was indeed an April Fool's hoax:

Reports appeared in local media earlier in the month that a law had been approved to charge residents of the 4-million-strong region 20 euros for each grilling session beginning in June ( Read more... )

[cross-posted from libertarianism]

If you're planning on grilling a steak or brat in the Belgian region of Wallonia, you'll need to pay the tax man:

Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2, a so-called greenhouse gas, is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents of Wallonia will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session.I'm still ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258299,00.html

JERUSALEM - The Israeli ambassador to El Salvador has been recalled after he was found drunk, naked and bound in sexual bondage gear in his yard, an official said Monday ( Read more... )