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UPDATE: More on Somali pirates’ ransom demands for American hostage (LIST!) Even after centuries and those three Johnny Depp movies, pirates still suck at PR. Here’s the basics – a bunch of skinny Somali pirate dudes with fat guns take control of a 500 ft. American-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crewmembers for the purpose [...]

Did John Ashcroft and Strom Thurmond sneak off to Ankara at some point in the 70s and have themselves a wild weekend in a Turkish bath that produced a wacko love child? Lord knows it wouldn’t have been the first time for old Strom, but it’s the only explanation we can come  up with for [...]

Has anyone else noticed that the Earth is acting like a spoiled toddler lately to try and get our attention?  We first noticed this trend a couple of weeks ago when Mount Redoubt in Alaska first erupted, but now it’s getting a little out of hand. Look, Earth – we can understand you’re a little [...]

Kim Jong Il is the Gary Busey of global geopolitics. You never know where he’s coming from, and just when you think he’s finally dead, he does something totally crazy. And even though it’s pretty obvious he’s totally harmless and full of shit – he’s still just a little scary. Case in point – North [...]

Good girl, Lassie! You found our money! After months lost in the woods, some of our money has begun to find its way back home – thanks in part to the world’s largely ineffective leaders meeting and agreeing to give a trillion dollars to two of the world’s most ineffective institutions, the World Bank and [...]

Obie One committed a bit of a faux pas last month when he presented Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his family with an array of welcome gifts that could have easily been purchased at Dollar Tree. So, to avoid further egg on the face, or puke in the lap, in the grand tradition of Bush [...]

Been focused on the global economic meltdown over the past many months? Been busy watching the value sucked out of your 401k and your prospects for retirement morph from visions of crystal blue waters and tee times into the dull navy shade of a Wal-Mart uniform and clean-ups in aisle six? We can’t blame you, [...]

It’s been fifty years since the Dalai Lama was chased from Tibet into exile in India where he’s become friends with Richard Gere and smiled a lot for the last five decades. On this week’s 50th anniversarry, China has shut down the internet and cell networks in and around Tibet for “maintenance,”  making it a [...]

Hey, boys and girls – have you ever gone to a birthday party that just totally sucked nuts? No, not in the way that you’ll come to enjoy in your sophomore year of college – I’m talking about a totally lame-o party where nobody cool shows up and the cake is made of lime jello, [...]