The Finger: What it is Like Getting Old in America.

Writer Will Bevis takes you on a trip to get "the finger," in America's Health System. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/24/785827/-The-Finger:-What-its-Like-Getting-Old-in-America

Republican Bobble-Heads: Daddy, Is News Like Cartoons for Adults?

Update: For a complete list of cartoon charachters who were NOT used in this story, but should have been, please go to the end of the story. After reading the story of course. But then, you knew that!) So I'm eating my chilli and cutting glances at the news, and there the...

Why I Rat. (With a Bonus Story About Viet Nam Bill. And April.)

It doesn't happen often anymore, but every so often someone will come up to me and say, "Hey, Will, I hear you like to "rat." And I'll immediately understand them, because I was born in the South, spent most of my life in the South, and probably have some relatives...

What's wrong with buying a female friend a dildo?

Jake McMillan discusses if it is okay for a male friend to by a female platonic friend a vibrator and the reaction of others to this act: http://jakemcmillan.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/whats-wrong-with-buying-a-female-friend-a-dildo/

Take my mother-in-law, please, and this isn't a joke, lawsuits?

""Take my mother-in-law — please," isn't a joke you're likely to hear often these days from Sunda Croonquist. The veteran comic is being sued by her mother-in-law after making her the punchline of too many jokes. The mother-in-law is accusing Croonquist of...

How to be Successful with Women ?

Have you ever thought about what kind of guy your dream girl really wants? It all boils down to one thing: She wants a real man. Unfortunately, none of us were given a manual on exactly what a real man is -- or how to become one. Here are 10 ways to keep your dream girl.f you...

Pet cat eaten by 13ft python

An owner has told how his pet cat was crushed, asphyxiated and consumed whole by a 13ft python belonging to a neighbour. Wilbur, a four-year-old tabby, was devoured after straying into a nearby garden in Brislington, Bristol, where the Burmese python was lurking. The cat's...

Couple to marry at 12:34:56 on 07/08/09

A couple, Katie Barfoot and Troy Peters, are set to marry with their ceremony coinciding with a date and time reading 12:34:56 on 07/08/09. Miss Barfoot, 26, and Mr Peters, 27, will exchange vows as the clock passes the fifty-sixth second of the thirty-fourth minute of...

Scary washing machine takes NZ by storm

An online auction listing for a 'Scary washing machine'  for sale has resulted in flurries of emails, tweets and links to Facebook over the past day. This apparently haunted appliance is scheduled to make an appearance on a prime time current affairs news show this...