By Restless 
Everyone repeats it: Get an education. You overhear snippets of “school” talk on the street and in the subway, ads for this school, that school on every train. Ads on radio for art schools, billboards for business schools, tv spots for computer schools. Your mom, your grandma all say go to school. I think […]

From The Tennessean:
Titans’ T-Rac subject of suit
Former QB says mascot hurt him
Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Adrian McPherson has sued the Titans because their mascot, T-Rac, ran into him with a golf cart at halftime of an Aug. 12 preseason game at LP Field.
The suit, filed Friday in Davidson County Circuit Court, seeks $15 million […]

  
  American Scammer       Nigerian Scammer
Sometimes that whole Anti-Intellectual, Anti-”Book Learning”,  Anti-Living in Reality… ”trust the word of Jesus” thing really comes back to bite you in the ass.
From CNEWS.COM: 
Churches, Ministers Targeted By Nigerian E-mail Scammers
Nigerian e-mail scammers are successfully targeting American churches and ministers, cheating them out of millions of dollars under the guise of spreading […]

 
From CNN.COM: 
NASA wants permanent moon base
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) — NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon — an objective called for by President Bush in 2004 — includes establishing a permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to Mars.
The moon base would be at either the north or south […]

From YahooNews: 
Thousands set new world record in ‘Santa Dash’
LONDON (AFP) - Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus took part in the English city of Liverpool’s annual “Santa Dash”, setting a new world record in the process, organisers of the event said.
To raise money for local charities, about 5,000 people dressed up in red suits, […]

 
From YahooNews:
Swingers swap sex partners in prudish Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Every two months, dozens of couples meet in a pub in Singapore, have drinks, mingle, and then decide whether they want to sleep with one another.
In Sydney or Seattle nobody would bat an eyelid, but the couples are part of a thriving underground swinging scene […]

From YahooNews: 
World Toilet Day seeks clean restrooms
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Cut-price toilet paper, brushes and detergent are on sale to help promote clean restrooms as part of World Toilet Day on Sunday, the campaign organizer said.
It is the fifth annual World Toilet Day, organized by the Singapore-based non-profit World Toilet Organization (WTO), which lobbies for better […]

Over in the Congo atrocities are happening on an unprecedented scale.  Woman are being raped en massee, and doctors are seeing something they’ve never seen before outside of complications due to childbirth… Rape Fistulas.
As horrid as that sounds, they unfortunately do not have enough oil over there in Congo to justify any sort of U.S. […]

 
From The Sun UK: 
Jedi Knights seek Human Rights
NITED Nations chiefs today felt the Force from two Jedi Knights fighting for interstellar ‘human rights’.
Self-proclaimed Jedis ‘Umada’ and ‘Yunyun’, joined by hairy wookie Chewbacca, called for official acceptance of their ‘religion’ at London’s UN headquarters.
The fictional Jedis fought evil villain Darth Vader in the blockbuster Star Wars […]

 
From YahooNews:
Nearly 80 stolen garden gnomes discovered in central France
LIMOGES, France (AFP) - Some 79 garden gnomes snatched by a so-called gnome liberation group, were discovered along the banks of a stream in the central Limousin region, police said.
The gnomes were hidden in some underbrush with a banner that read, “gnome mistreated, gnome liberated,” police […]

Goofyblog Reporter in the Field Graham sent me a link to this really cool website that shows you a national interactive fund-raising map.
fundrace.org allows you to see a state-by-state view of actual donors to the Republican and Democratic parties.  You can even zoom in on some cities and see the map by neighborhood.
I think it illustrates […]

From YahooNews:
Vampyre club seeks new recruits
LONDON (Reuters) - Vampyres are prowling for new recruits in London as Halloween approaches to partake in wild parties, trips to Transylvania and bat spotting nights — but coffin-dwelling, blood drinkers need not apply.
With a penchant for custom-made fangs, striking make-up and gothic clothes, members of the London Vampyre Group […]

The following are some weight watchers cards from the early 1970’s.   I don’t know how they considered any of this stuff “Health Food”,  but in 1974 I suppose a something like a ”Frankfurter Spectacular” was more healthy than a regular Frankfurter?
For a complete tour, and a humorous look at how these cards were found, click here. 
 
 
 

From MSNBC.COM: 
What a bunch of clowns
Hundreds gather for convention in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY - There was hardly room for all the big feet and rubber noses as hundreds of clowns from across Latin America opened a four-day convention in a Mexico City theater on Monday.
Some 400 clowns, mainly from Mexico but with contingents from Central […]