Category: In the news

Plucked from the headlines, online and in print

All over

Now that the Napier siege is all over we’re learning more and more about just what the cops were up against. And it sounds like it was probably fortunate more people weren’t injured or killed. Of course, all the armchair…

Yes, people like this still exist

Okay, so I know tolerance isn’t one of my strong points but compared to Pat Robertson I’m a breeze! I’m gobsmacked that in this day and age we still have people as ignorant as this sucker. I’m even more gobsmacked that this…

Bra-vo

Now here’s an idea that has merit: making bras tax-deductible. Jessica Irvine over at the Sydney Morning Herald has no end of sensible political arguments for just why this should happen, and good on her for putting so much thought…

These people give higher education a bad name

The Victoria University of Wellington Student Association said no to the opportunity to lay a wreath at Anzac Day commemorations. The reason? Apparently, they reckoned taking part would mean they were condoning war. Have any of these idiots ever even…

It’s a pig of a thing

Swine flu is here and so are the jokes.   “Will there be a mass outbreak of Human/Avian Swine flu? When pigs fly.” Check out the story here.

Slogan shirt scandal

Yes folks, not all slogan T-shirts are true! Seems a bloke in Florida was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the message “I ♥ My Marriage”  while he tried to choke his wife. Nice, he sure sounds like a catch.

The pleasant and the not-so-pleasant

Two different women received very different surprises recently. First up, the good news. A Swedish woman discovered she had a rather inflated bank balance recently. Nearly $2 billion had been deposited into her account. Sadly, it disappeared again as mysteriously…

Gothic kitten seller to go to court

The nasty, kitten-mangling biarch who was selling “gothic kittens” with piercings has been ordered to stand trial. Her lawyer  reckons state law says nothing about piercing cats or docking their tails. It probably doesn’t explicitly prohibit poking red-hot poker up the…

Don’t hold back

Everyone else has had a say on the whole Rihanna/Chris Brown drama so now Roseanne has entered into the fray. Oooh, and she’s not a fan of missus-bashing-accused Brown. chris brown’s lies and excuses make me want to beat the…

Help for Aussie bushfire victims

I’ve just made a wee donation to the bushfire appeal and have swiped all this info on how to go about it from the site I work for (hey, I’d already prettied it all up for one website, didn’t see…