The Exploding Pen Certainly Is Mightier Than The Sword

Jessie Bauguess’s whole family sounds screwed up. What a sad bunch. It all started to unravel when Jessie Bauguess brought an exploding pen to school. His grandmother says it was a prank, but it sent a kid to the hospital with burns to his hands and fragments of the pen going into his chest and …

That’s Not What’s Meant By Mustard Plaster

Food feuds, how I love thee. This one involves a dude launching a mustard-covered corn dog at his girlfriend. I love all the trouble Will Greenlee went to in order to bring us this food feud in all its glory. Not only do we have a mugshot of the accused “corn dog chucker”, but we …

Please Remain In The Treatment Program Until Your Sentence Is Complete

Remember Steven Slater? Well, he pleaded guilty. If he completes a one-year treatment program involving counselling and treatment for substance abuse, the biggest of his two charges will be dropped. Here’s a question. How is what he did *attempted* criminal mischief? Nobody stopped him from getting on the PA system, cursing out passengers, grabbing beer, …

More InhumanWare Goodness

You know HumanWare really needs to stop committing marketing fails. Here’s another one. A couple of days ago, they sent out a message saying that everybody who buys a Victor Reader Stream in the next little while can get a free softpak that they’re selling for around 50 bucks. Then, the next day, I received …

Mmm…Kittens!

Does Francis McGinley know Gary L. Korkuc? They both have twisted tastes in food, and they’re both twisted individuals. Can you imagine being McGinley’s room-mate? You’re just in your house, loo dee doo, when McGinley, who’s been hittin’ the McGinley pretty good, comes home with 2 blood-soaked 4-week-old kittens. Was he trying to rescue them? …

A Thief Not Interested In Stealing Intellectual Property

Now, how often does that happen? For some inexplicable reason, a professor in Sweden who wishes to remain anonymous decided to leave his backpack full of things like keys, credit cards and a laptop full of important research data abandoned in a stairwell while he slipped into the laundry room. Of course, the obvious happened …