Category: In the news

Plucked from the headlines, online and in print

Veging out

Sydney Morning Herald foodie columnist Simon Thomsen has written an interesting piece on all flavours of vegetarians. He says he’s not sure why they are so indignant and aggressive but suspects it could be diet-related. I find it hard to…

Party-poopers punish Phelps

The proverbial brown stuff has started to hit the fan for America’s Olympics golden boy, Michael Phelps. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably be aware of the photos that popped up in Brit tabloid News of the…

More bad press for Facebook

This time the headline screams: Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam. Ooooh, very exciting and dramatic. Turns out some 18-year-old conned classmates into doing dodgy stuff. An 18-year-old US student is accused of posing as a girl on…

RIP James Whitmore

Actor James Whitmore died on Friday. He was 87. He had a long career in Hollywood, with his first movie starring role coming in the 1949 movie Battlefield. The most well-known of his more recent acting exploits would probably be…

Diversification

An Aussie bloke appeared in court this week, charged with possession of a whole bunch of  stun guns. Apparently, he got sprung with 41 of the suckers and had already sold 59 of them. The police reckoned the stun guns…

Building a business

As more information comes to light about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in Los Angeles, the more I think the woman is an A-grade idiot. And a selfish one at that. So now we know she already…

A new trend? Shoe is!

Talk about starting a trend: Chinese head honcho Wen Jiabao had a shoe biffed at him during a speech at Cambridge University on Monday. This comes after poor wee George Bush received much the same treatment from an Iraqi reporter a…

RIP John Martyn

British singer-songwriter-guitarist John Martyn — who released more than 20 albums of his own and worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour and Phil Collins — died on Thursday. He was 60.   ON THE WEB:   Times Online obituary…

Would-be raccoon rapist gets the chop

Here’s another case of critters getting their own form of justice. According to The Sun, a sick wee pervert in Moscow was having a few drinks and decided to sexually molest a poor, innocent little raccoon. The raccoon, however, had…