Of course when being stupid and driving recklessly, not using seatbelts, losing control of your car and crashing, it’s the fault of someone else when people die.  Just ask Darius Moore, he won’t be busy applying for Mensa membership anytime soon. Continue Reading »

A research team led by professor Masayuki Sumida at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology has created a type of transparent frog whose internal organs are visible through its skin. The researchers say the see-through frogs can help in the study of diseases and in the development of medical treatments by allowing laboratory scientists to check the status of internal organs and blood vessels while the frogs are alive and without having to dissect them.
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The most expensive public works project in the US was today in disarray after it emerged that a planned giant nuclear dump would be located on a faultline.

Rock samples from deep within Yucca Mountain, in Nevada, showed that the fault runs directly beneath the site where the US federal government planned to store 70,000 tonnes of highly radioactive waste.
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PHOENIX — It seemed like a headache, nothing more. But when pain killers and a trip to the emergency room didn’t fix Aaron Evans, the 14-year-old asked his dad if he was going to die.

“No, no,” David Evans remembers saying. “We didn’t know. And here I am: I come home and I’m burying him.”

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A Jefferson City daycare has been shut down by the state. The Department of Human Services responded to an anonymous complaint that a worker at Noah’s Ark Nursery School on Russell Avenue taped a baby’s mouth shut. A DHS spokesperson says they found a four-month-old boy in a darkened room with a pacifier taped in his mouth by two pieces of two-inch clear packing tape
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OK, it’s true that “Col. Douglas Austin” is not a real person (that anyone knows of at least), but that was the role that Michael Evans played on The Young and the Restless back in 1970′s, 1980′s, and 1990′s.  Three decades of being someone else, sounds like witness protection. Continue Reading »

NEW YORK — The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame.Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball’s fate, and Wednesday announced the decision to brand it won out over the other options — sending it to Cooperstown unblemished or launching it into space.
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CLEVELAND — Whoever smelt it, dealt it was not the case after a “fart spray” attack at a local Cleveland, Ohio, restaurant. No one was laughing at the attackers’ toilet humor after the stink bomb sent three employees to the hospital, caused $1,000 in food damage, and could result in felony charges for the two men who “bombed” the eatery.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur’s permit — a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually.

Human rights groups often have criticized European Union member Hungary for legalizing prostitution — which has been fully allowed under certain conditions since 1999. Opponents say legalization does not help prostitutes.
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Comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University, whose remarks were translated from Farsi.

On executions of homosexuals in Iran: In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.
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