This one was pretty fun to research: inspired by a piece I heard on This American Life, I went out looking for 5 odd economic indicators. I found some pretty weird stuff.
Go see.

A recent Diana Ross concert at Montego Bay in Jamaica seems not to have gone very well, according to one reviewer.
“Dem shoulda throw bottle pon har, all 20,000 people inna di venue,” shouted an irate patron, shortly after Ross exited the stage to boos from disgruntled fans.
Read on for the whole story. And by the [...]

Wow. This somewhat literalizes the idea of a vault of atrocities: the entire documentary about Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre. I remember all this going down when I was a kid and having no idea how it could happen.

Anyway, have a super-duper weekend!
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Can we please have a moment of silence?
Royal Canadian Air Farce, the sketch comedy show that introduced a generation of comedy buffs to the Chicken Cannon — unlikely ammo fired at worthy targets — will be grounded for good following a New Year’s Eve special on Dec. 31.
Like millions of Canadians, I will really [...]

B.com sent me this — hilarious.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Stop that $1 million check: It turns out the call girl linked to Eliot Spitzer had already shed her clothes for “Girls Gone Wild” as an 18-year-old while partying in Miami, Florida, the video company’s founder said Tuesday.
Ashley Alexandra Dupre stars in seven “Girls [...]

So true. A great post from a great blog.
Normally if someone were to wake up at 7:00 in the morning, take the day off work, and get drunk at a bar before 10:00 a.m., they would be called an alcoholic, and not in the artistic, edgy way that white people are so fond of.On [...]

50 Centimeters more snow is due over the next 48 hours.
For my American readers, that’s roughly equivalent to 20 inches and $3.5 billion in national debt.
Hiyooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Go. Just go.

Now you know the Democratic machine is trying to sink Obama. Guess who’s endorsing him?
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