From YahooNews:
Philosopher, scientist, farmer crack chicken-egg question
LONDON (AFP) - Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to a scientist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer, it was the egg, British newspapers reported.
The key to the age-old question apparently lies in the fact that since genetic material does not change throughout an animal’s life, […]

From YahooNews: 
Cat falls asleep in China, wakes up in Britain
LONDON (AFP) - A cat stowed away in a crate of crockery on a container ship and travelled 6,000 miles (9,600 kilometres) from China to Britain, living on cardboard and condensation.
Nicknamed Chairman Miaow, the white tabby cat crawled into the crate before it was loaded onto […]

The end days are upon us, prepare for the rapture, this is the first sign of the Apocalypse.
Oh if only Frank were alive,  what would he say?   I’m sure there would be someone named Luca Brasi knocking on Mr. Bolton’s door right about now.
News like this is enough to give a person a severe “Case of the […]

 
You think you owe a lot on your credit card, mortgage or student loans?   That’s nothing compared to the $510,678 every single American will have to pay in order to pay off the national liabilities our nation owes.
The National Debt is just one piece of the puzzle, add in Medicare, Social Security, Government retirement benefits etc.  […]

 
From CNN.COM: 
Study: Chocolate may boost brain power
Stimulating effects might increase mental performance
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Chocolate lovers rejoice. A new study hints that eating milk chocolate may boost brain function.
“Chocolate contains many substances that act as stimulants, such as theobromine, phenethylamine, and caffeine,” Dr. Bryan Raudenbush from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia noted in […]

From MSNBC/NEWSWEEK: 
Curse of the Bureaucrats, Voodoo dolls are all the rage in China—especially now that the government has banned them.
By Quindlen Krovatin
May 24, 2006 - Not content with jailing subversive reporters and restricting access to prodemocracy Web sites, the Chinese government has turned its attentions to a new destabilizing influence: voodoo dolls. Central government authorities […]

On the “Defend Tom Delay” Website is a Video from the Steven Colbert show where he plays a phony conservative talk-show host interviewing “outfoxed” creator Robert Greenwald about Tom Delay.
One problem, Steven Colbert is a comedian with a fake news show, playing the role of a fake moron like Bill O’Reilly.   Apparently the people at […]

 
If you define Red States as those that support Bush, and Blue States as those that don’t, Red America is down to just Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. (See the complete list here) I’m not sure why people in those states are taking longer to get it than the rest of America, maybe something in the water?  Bad public education […]

From YahooNews: 
Boo Boo the Chicken dies
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. - The exotic chicken that was saved from drowning by mouth-to-beak resuscitation more than three months ago has died, her owner said.
 
Boo Boo, the chicken who was revived after she was found floating face down in the family pond in February, died recently, said owner Jackie Calhoun. The […]

 
From CNN Yesterday (5-22-2006)…
Bush: “…we have now reached a TURNING POINT in the struggle between freedom and terror…”
Hmmm….  Seems to me I’ve heard this “Turning Point” phrase somewhere before….
11-06-2003 Bush:: “We’ve reached another great turning point – and the resolve we show will shape the next stage of the world democratic movement.
03-19-2004 Bush:…”Today, as Iraqis join the […]

From SPACE.COM: 
Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System’s Edge
Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system, called the “termination shock,” sometime within the next year, NASA scientists announced at a media teleconference today.
The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1’s crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to […]

 
From CNN.COM: 
Dracula castle returns to bloodline
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country’s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.
The hand-over ceremony will take place Friday noon in […]

Mr. Rogers Playing Donkey Kong in the 1980’s.  Does it get any better?
The little blonde kid is probably around 30 by now,  I wonder if he’s living in his moms basement playing Worlds of Warcraft and D&D online all day.

 
From THE BBC: 
Mammoth skeleton found in Siberia
By James Rodgers
Fishermen in Siberia have discovered the complete skeleton of a mammoth - a find which Russian experts have described as very rare.
The remains appeared when flood waters receded in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region.
The mammoth’s backbone, skull, teeth and tusks all survived intact. It appears to have died aged […]