Month April 2005

Frogs are exploding in Germany

As reliably reported in multiple mainstream newspapers Visitors to parks in the German city of Hamburg were warned yesterday to watch out for exploding toads. Several thousand have so far mysteriously and spontaneously blown up, sending entrails and body parts…

Pass a hankie for the poor Rigas family

From Sue, who is a CPA. How it works (or doesn’t work): The Rigas family returns $1.5 billion (95% of its assets) to Adelphia.  This means they keep 5% or roughly $79 million.  Perhaps they need this money for attorneys fees and…

Schwarzenegger governership unravelling

Schwarzenegger has now broken virtually all his campaign pledges, a key member of his administration, Dick Riordan, is resigning, and the wheels are falling off. Once the Hollywood glitz bully boy exterior fell apart, well, there’s just not much there. He…

Hunter Thompson murder conspiracy theories abound

Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn’t always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand,…

Blink… and you’ll see white male bloggers

It’s this simple: the problem is NOT a dearth of smart women bloggers… or talented minority bloggers. There are plenty of them. The problem (if you agree there is one) is that the MSM (mainstream media) primarily points to A-list…