Sometimes “Martin’s got cooties!” and “Madison just peed her pants - again!” aren’t the only things hollered on the playground. In an event as likely as pigs taking flight, trashy British tabloid The Sun has gotten serious and pulled together a cross-section of kids to talk about the racial slurs they’ve been stung [...]

The last turkey sandwiches have been choked down, and Christmas is all around. Snow on the ground, holiday music in the air, mistletoe-flavored coffee at Starbucks … and neighbors at each other’s throats. Break out the eggnogg!
Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign
Some neighbors in Colorado are up in arms over one resident’s [...]

There wasn’t a parental warning on the site. I didn’t have to fork over my credit card number or proof of age. And yet I’m freely paging through images of hundreds of pouty women clad in the most outlandish of role-playing fetish gear. There oughta be a law … against the superskanky women’s costumes at [...]

Poor Pope Benedict XVI. Like Sammy Hagar to David Lee Roth, he’s having a hell of a time living up to his superpopular predecessor. Pope John Paul II got his own comic books, a flash Popemobile, and calls for canonization. Pope Benedict got the keys to the Vatican and some poorly-made flaming effigies.
Now, Pope John [...]

There’s an interesting article on the main site about the neccessity of child translators…now here’s a fairly gut-wrenching account that balances out the issue.
Child Medical Translators — At Grandpa’s Bedside, Trying to Find Words for ‘Defeat’

I was crusing the mega Friends of the Library Book Sale today when I started leafing through this 1932 guide to comedy. Pages of tips on how to be funny, dissecting “Take my wife, please” and “Boy, are my arms tired” types of jokes. Somewhere ’round page 200 was this random lame joke [...]

Raise prices, invade Iranistan, I don’t care–but don’t make us conserve gasoline. God, you know things are bad when Mr. “I pour a liter of Texas T over my cornflakes in the morning” Bush is advocating the filthy C-word.
New York Times: President Calls for Less Driving To Conserve Gas
Right, I [...]

Ever threatened to “eat your hat” or claimed that something would happen “over my dead body?” Careful what you say–as New Zealand politican Keith Locke discovered, hyperbole is the worst thing that ever happened to anybody, ever.

BBC.com: Nude New Zealand MP takes stroll
During a recent election the Locke-man promised to run [...]

Finally, government help got into New Orleans over the weekend. Real heroic—-except that Harry Connick Jr. managed to get down and bring some aid with him last THURSDAY.
“How hard is it to take a helicopter or a truck … it’s easy to get to the convention center, we got there with [...]

Right, we all know that KFC’s 11 herbs and spices coat only the freshest six-legged mutant chickens. Tommy Hilfiger? Hella racist. And Mountain Dew lowers your sperm count.
Except we don’t. They’re all urban legends, juicy little rumors that rampage until they’re killed by master debunkers like Snopes.com [...]