A Wisconsin woman is being sentenced to jail for perpetrating the well-known Visine-in-the-drink prank on one of her friends who became quite ill afterward. The poor girl hopes to be a nurse one day, but those dreams may be dashed in the wake of a judge’s 90 day sentence for the prank. I won’t use […]
Read MoreI really don’t know if this is indicative of a culture or of this girl’s lack of reasoning skills but 22 year old York University student Sarah Grunfeld has accused professor Cameron Johnston of antisemitism after he made remarks in his Social Sciences 1140: “Self, Culture and Society” course, delivered before approximately 500 other rational […]
Read MoreEvery time Pat Robertson speaks it is like a PSA for bad behavior, whether Christian or not. Some people have argued that he is old, talks a lot, and thus is bound to say stupid things. That’s all well and good, but most people don’t claim to have direct knowledge of God’s will and ways […]
Read MorePink Visual, an adult film company, is building an enormous underground bunker in anticipation of the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse. Pink Visual spokesman Quentin Boyer is quoted by FoxNews saying, “Our goal is nothing less than to survive the apocalypse to come in comfort and luxury. Whether the catastrophe takes the form of fireballs flung earthward […]
Read MoreSwiss bank UBS lost around $2 billion dollars due to the fraud of a rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. UBS is the largest bank in Switzerland and this scandal does nothing to assure investors and depositors of its oversight procedures. This latest rogue trader scandal comes a few years after Societe Generale’s Jerome Kerviel perpetrated the […]
Read MoreRepublicans in the House of Representatives accuse the White House of pushing through a loan to now bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra for political reasons. Republicans revealed emails from the White House to the now bankrupt manufacturer that details the White House’s attempts to rush through the loan guarantee ahead of a visit to a […]
Read MoreThe UK’s Independent Commission on Banking has proposed a dichotomy of British banking into retail and investment banking sectors with a separation between the two in order to avoid situations in which the retail side of the bank is made illiquid by the investment side of the bank thus leading to bailouts and ‘too big […]
Read MoreI thought we had mastered rocket technology a long time ago? I’m sure the latest iteration will use computer technology and other advanced systems that are impossible for use on the old Saturn V but damn if it isn’t going to take forever and a day to get back into space. What amazes me the […]
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