Amtrak: From Simple Comfort To A Raging Inferno

Brian Hopkins, 25, hasfiled a lawsuit against Amtrakover what he claims was the company’s failure to protect idiots like himself. Well, he didn’t quite put it that way, but he might as well have. In 2006, Mensa candidate Hopkins decided it would be just swell to climb on top of a stopped train and hang …

The Minks Would Say Thanks If They Could

I don’t care what your views are on fur farming, so please, spare me the it’s awful speeches. The point here is that you can’t dispute that the animal rights nuts who broke into the Rippin fur farm and released 6000 minksare the worst kind of activists. A clue goes a long way guys, I …

How About Doing Some Actual Research?

Wow. Here’s further evidence that important folks in the U.S. legal system don’t understand the series of tubes that is the internet. The department of Homeland Security and the Board of Immigration Appeals used Wikipedia, a site edited by anyone with a computer, to decide that someone’s request for asylum should be denied. Finally, thank …

I Asked for The Bag, Not The Old Bag!

Has this woman never flown before? Hopefully she’ll fly again, and read the instructions more carefully. Apparently, she thought the instructions told her to lie down on the conveyer belt, ya know, the ones designed for luggage. She did, and found herself in the baggage-handling centre, miraculously unharmed, and she even made her flight. I’m …

A Recipe For Disaster

Wow. What’s with people screwing up recipes in magazines and poisoning people this year? First there was the henbane incident, and now, a recipe for an apple cake called for 20 nutmeg nuts instead of two pinches of nutmeg. In case you didn’t know, that much nutmeg can make you feel pretty icky. My thoughts …