Wednesday, November 30, 2005

"Sue me," Borat responds to Kazakh legal threat
As previously reported here at Fortesque or Stanislaus? Sacha Baron Cohen, incurred the wrath of Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry this month after appearing as Borat at the annual MTV Europe Music Awards.
Responding in character as Borat, Cohen, who is Jewish, said: "I like to state, I have no connection with Mr Cohen and fully support my government's position to sue this Jew."
"Since 2003 ... Kazakhstan is as civilized as any other country in the world," he said on his website, www.borat.kz.
"Women can now travel on inside of bus, homosexuals no longer have to wear blue hat and age of consent has been raised to eight years old."

For those of you with an appetite for zit-popping, watch this little clip. I love it how the guy is drinking beer the whole time. Who knew an ingrown hair could go so wrong?

For curious minds, who don't mind having illusions spoiled, check out this link here. It lets the cat out of the bag on David Blaine's tricks. Remember when he was suspended above the River Thames for 44 days? Some people threw eggs and golf balls at him, while others held barbecues underneath his box and one man was fined after trying to sabotage his water supply. Some banged drums to keep him awake at night. There are some creepy people out there. Am I any better though for posting how he does his tricks?!?

...oh yeah, do yourselves all a favour and listen to tracks from Wilco's new live album. You'll have a better day - I guarantee it. I owe infinite thank yous to Jim for purchasing their 1995 album "Being There." Listened to it at his house as we brought in New Year's 1997. You rock Jimmy - thanks to you I'm still enjoying the fruits of Wilco's labour.

Man Accused of Deliberate Finger Severing: "SALZBURG, Austria (AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday accused a former fingernail designer of deliberately putting his hands beneath a passing train so his fingers would be severed and he could collect on a euro1 million ($1.17 million) insurance policy.
The suspect told police he was riding his bicycle when he lost control and rolled down an embankment and onto railroad tracks just as a train was passing by, losing a thumb on one hand and an index finger and a pinky on the other.
Insurance company investigators became suspicious after they found that the man had taken out the policy a few months before the alleged accident.
State's attorney Elvira Gonschorowski-Zehentner said Tuesday that prosecutors had reason to believe the man cut off his own fingers in an attempt to cash in on his insurance.
The defendant's lawyer, Karl Wampl, dismissed as outlandish the notion that the man would intentionally have mutilated himself in such a fashion, contending he could have used a power saw to cut off his fingers rather than risk death faking an accident with a train.
The suspect has admitted that he had accumulated about euro150,000 ($175,000) in debts at the time he lost the fingers, prosecutors said."

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Solar Spark Lighter - Pocket size solar lighter
The Solar Spark Lighter is the world's only pocket size solar lighter. It is actually a stainless steel parabolic mirror, just like the one used to light the Olympic torch in Athens. It is designed to focus the suns radiant energy to a precise focal point which can reach 1000 degrees!

Liquid Condom!!!

"A man shows a bottle of newly-developed liquid condom for women use he bought from a drugstore in Yichang, Hubei Province November 21, 2005. The new product, making use of naometer and physical foaming technologies, is said to be easy to apply, anti-bacteria and lubricating. The invisible condom, developed by a company in south China's Guangdong Province, has won approval from the province's drug administration and is now available in drugstores in the country."

Monday, November 28, 2005


CBC New Brunswick - Cow moose wanders Moncton streets
"A large moose spent Monday morning wandering the streets of urban Moncton.
RCMP and Natural Resources officers spent hours tracking the two-year-old cow moose from Harrison Trimble High School to the Moncton Hospital parking lot.
Provincial wildlife biologist Duane Sabine says moose sightings in suburban Moncton are common, but not in heavily populated areas.
Sabine says the animal might have been young and disoriented – or maybe just sick. 'Sometimes in the fall you get yearlings dispersing to new home ranges. They may be striking out and not knowing where they're going and they may end up in a city.'
Police watched the animal to ensure it didn't venture closer to the city's downtown area. It crossed several roads but didn't cause any traffic problems. After several hours, RCMP officers and DNR officials were able to coax the moose back into the woods.
DNR officials say the moose was last seen in the woods in Centennial Park. The area is being monitored."


Bosnia unveils life-size Bruce Lee bronze statue

Saturday, November 26, 2005

George Clooney: '2005' Worst Year Of My Life': "'On my way to Morocco (where Syriana was filmed), leaving my house, there was a rattlesnake wrapped around my dog with its teeth in the back of his head. I had to get a baseball bat and beat the snake until it let go, but it killed the dog. That was the last thing the dog saw, me beating a snake with a bat."

Friday, November 25, 2005

WEIRD: "Peel Police Worried for Child's Safety
Nov, 25 2005 - 7:00 PM

TORONTO/AM 640 TORONTO - A strange incident earlier this week has police in Mississauga asking for help.

A running van was seen parked in a cul-de-sac around Mavis and the 401 and a witness spotted a hose connected from the exhaust into one of the rear windows.

Police are worried there may have been a child inside the van which took off once the driver noticed the witness walking by.

Damion Okposion with Peel police says they don't have much to go on.

They're looking for a brown, newer-model plymouth passenger van."

Vomitus Maximus: Black wants citizenship back

"Black, who in a speech four years ago called his Canadian citizenship an 'impediment to my progress in another, more amenable jurisdiction (Britain),' now contends the government should grant his request because his parents were born in Canada."

Black's request of Ottawa is especially curious considering some of his well-publicized criticism of his native country. In November 2001, in his first major speech in Vancouver after he officially became Lord Black of Crossharbour, he called Canada a "one-party federal state with no deliverance in sight," and added, "Most Canadians remain resolutely oblivious to their country's objective decline."

Black attacked Canada's universal health-care system, and "soft-left" policies that he said were driving as many as 100,000 skilled workers a year to the United States. "The head of the Canadian government says they will be replaced by Haitian taxi drivers. They will not," he said at the time.

"To someone just arrived from Haiti or Romania, Canada is a far more satisfying place to be a citizen than it was to me," Black said in his speech.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Sheep Eyeballs: Chow Down You Chowhounds!

"To help his guests overcome any squeamishness, the stout 64-year-old host leads by example. He plunges his knife into a sheep's eye socket, takes out the eye, cuts it in half, discards the pupil and pops the remainder in his mouth. 'It just melts on the tongue,' he says with a smile bordering on the ecstatic."

Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm!

Bacteria make high-definition images Light-sensitive bacteria can produce a "biological film" to take high-resolution photographs.

The black-and-white images are made by bacteria engineered to produce a pigment depending on whether they grew in the dark.
The high-definition images measured about 100 megapixels per 2.5 square centimetres, or about 10 times better than high-resolution printers.

Wednesday, November 23, 2005



The two Fortesqueues and their animal
companions, Luna, Yolanda, Abbey, Yoda,
Orlando, Almo and Muchacho are devasted
to learn of the passing of Sam (above) at the
age of 14 years. But perhaps not as deva-
stated as his catwom bitch (below).

Police Hit Man in Genitals With Taser
"FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Police accidentally hit a naked man in the genitals with a Taser after he was caught breaking windows and asking women to touch him, authorities said.

Jeremy J. Miljour, 26, tried to run away when sheriff's deputies approached so one of them shot their Taser, said Cpl. Matt Chitwood. But one of the gun's prongs accidentally hit Miljour's genitals and got stuck, Chitwood said.

'The Taser is relatively accurate, but when someone is moving like that, it doesn't matter if you have a Taser, or a pistol. (Officers) can't aim,' Chitwood said.

Miljour was treated at a hospital before being taken to the Lee County jail. He was charged with indecent exposure, resisting an officer and criminal damage."

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Bush pardons turkeys

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush spared two turkeys from becoming Thanksgiving dinner. Instead, the birds are going to Disneyland.
Thousands of people voted on the White House Web site to name the national turkey 'Marshmallow' and an alternate called 'Yam.' At a ceremony Tuesday, Bush peered into Marshmallow's eyes, stroked its white fluffy feathers and patted its red head.
In years past, turkeys spared in presidential ceremonies were sent to live at a local farm.
'Marshmallow and Yam were a little skeptical about going to a place called Frying Pan Park,' Bush said to giggling students from Clarksville Elementary School in Clarksville, Maryland."
...BARF

Angelman Syndrome Sib Thoughts:

Jacob, Age 10, USA
My sister has Angelman Syndrome she is three years old and her name is Leah. She comes in my room and eats stuff like bookmarks.

Bradley, Age 10, USA
I have a sister age 8, with AS. Her birthday is April 25. Although she may attack me sometimes, I still love her and she will always be my baby. She likes to lick my face and scratch me and pull my hair. It doesn't feel good, but I understand she is just trying to get my attention and play with me.

Shawn, Age 7, USA
I love my sister Catie. She is almost 9. I think she is cute.
Sometimes she kicks me in the head with her shoes while we are
watching tv.

Luis, age 8, USA
My brother`s name is Didier. He is 4 years old. When I eat he comes to me and tries to take the food away from me, He is hungry all the time. When I watch TV he gets in front of the tv . He likes to play with water and paper, and I have to hide my books from him. One day he ate my homework during the night while everybody was sleeping and I had my mom to sent a note to my teacher.

Tonya, age 10, USA
My brother Taylor is 5 and has AS. He is the sweetest little brother in the world full of kisses (I mean drools) and hugs (I mean chokes). We call him TAZ because he destroys the house so fast. We have locks on EVERYTHING! So far the only thing that calms him down is a video of himself and a handful of silly putty.


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Spread some of this goop all over your lips and nostrils and fewer cooties will enter your facial orifices.


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And on a final note, this picture of Elton John and Bette Midler cracks me up. Elton looks very... interesting. Make-up can do some pretty funny stuff.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Chavez sings Mexican songs in spat with Fox: "Wearing a broad-rimmed sombrero, Chavez sang Mexican ballads with a mariachi band before thousands of his supporters at the end of a march to back him days after Venezuela and Mexico withdrew their ambassadors in a diplomatic standoff."


For those of you who enjoy a little game of Risk every now and then, check out Risk via Google Maps. It's just like the regular ol' game of Risk, only it's played on a background made up of Goggle satellite imagry. A nice little chunk o' fun!

Saturday, November 19, 2005

Small Town Misfit: "A man wearing a bra and underwear was reported in a Cheektowaga cemetery."

Thursday, November 17, 2005



Police Search for Gary Glitter in Vietnam

Gary, Gary, Gary.... Haven't you learned yet?! First Britain, then Cambodia and now Viet Nam? Your glitter has shamefully lost it's sparkle.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Happy Birthday Harriet!
"Happy 175th birthday Harriet! In 1835 famed naturalist and father of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin was wandering around in the Galapagos Islands getting all ready to come out with the theory that would change the face of biology. On that trip, the intrepid Darwin collected a juvenile Giant Galapagos Land Tortoise. That Tortoise, Harriet, today turns 175 (at least according to the Australia Zoo) and is the oldest known living creature on this planet. So let's take a moment and wish her a happy birthday and to remember that a hundred and seventy years ago a relatively unknown naturalist looked at a bunch of finches while cruising around the southwest Pacific and gained the insight to realize that all life on this planet is shaped by natural selection.

-Socialist Swine"

Kazakhstan Threatens to Sue Ali G Comic | Sacha Baron Cohen : People.com
"Chronically undiplomatic comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is under attack by the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan – for Cohen's buffoonish Kazakh character Borat
Cohen, whose gallery of scathingly funny characters also includes the fearless yet doltish Ali G (who, like Borat, can be seen on HBO's Da Ali G Show), has enraged officials of the central Asian state for portraying them as drunks who participate in such sports as cow-punching – and they are threatening to sue Cohen, reports Reuters.
'We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way,' Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing. 'We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.'
The Cambridge-educated Cohen, 34, apparently enraged Kazakhs when he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month. Borat's entrance was made in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.
Other typical Borat routines include showing pornographic photos of his 'sister' to complete strangers and talking up wine in his native country as having been made from fermented horse urine.
There has been no comment from Cohen's camp on the matter."


Ants Reportedly Eat Woman's Eye in India

NEW DELHI (AP) - A woman died in a Calcutta hospital after ants ate one of her eyes as she was recovering from a cornea operation, media reports said Tuesday.
Gauri Chakraborty, 55, had complained of terrible pain after the operation at a state-run hospital, but a nurse told her it was normal and left her unattended, her son Soumen told the Press Trust of India news agency.
He said that when her bandage was removed the next day they found big black ants nibbling at her eye, PTI reported.
"She died a ghastly death. We don't even know the reason of her death," Amitabha Kar, Chakraborty's son-in-law told PTI.
Local Health Minister Surjya Kanta Mishra demanded a report of the incident from the hospital authorities. In response, hospital superintendent Sukumar Das said a five-member inquiry committee has been set up, PTI reported.

CBC Montreal - Man trapped in garbage truck shouts himself to safety
A man has been freed after being trapped in a garbage truck for more than an hour. The 45-year-old was in a disposal bin on Monday morning when a city garbage truck came along and emptied the bin into its hold, police spokesperson Olivier Lapointe said.
City workers were driving along when they heard shouting coming from the truck. They pulled over to the side of the road and called police.
Crushed
Michel Duval, who was driving the garbage truck, heard yelling from the hold of his truck as he was about to drop another dumpster load.
Duval says he had probably dumped a couple of loads on top of the man before realizing he was inside.
Duval compacts each load before adding another.
Firefighters eventually pried open the garbage portion of the truck and, after pulling out piles of trash, managed to dig the man out of the truck, Lapointe said.
Fire Chief Gilles Ducharme says the man is lucky he survived the crushing of the garbage.
"We had pieces of wood, steel bars, so he was lucky that none of those passed through his body," Ducharme says.
The man was likely sleeping in a dumpster that got emptied into the truck, Ducharme figures.
The man was put on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance at about 7:30 a.m. at the corner of Cote-des-Neiges and Kent.
He was wearing bright red socks, and dark pants. He was moving his hands as he lay on the stretcher.
Urgences Santé officials say the man's leg was broken in two places, and it is believed he also has a broken pelvis. He also suffered internal bleeding because of the pressure from being compacted in the truck.

Bird Nearly Ruins Dominoes Record Attempt
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported.
The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition center in the northern city of Leeuwarden where employees of television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night.
Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, "Domino Day" organizers were quoted as saying by the NOS news agency.
The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

morning musume vs. lizard : "clip from a tv special for 5th gen member konno asami. morning musume faces off against a giant lizard"


Click the picture or I REBUKE YOU!!!


Ashraf Mohamed al-Akhras and his bride Nadia al-Alami pose with their fathers during their wedding reception at Radisson SAS hotel in the heart of Amman just before an explosion ripped through their wedding reception. The bride and the groom, who were wounded in the attack, both lost their fathers to the deadly blast that. 'I lost my father and my father-in-law and I saw many other dead. This is a horrible crime. The world has to know this has nothing to do with Islam,' Khaled told state television from his hospital bed.(AFP)
SAD SAD SAD SAD!

TheStar.com - Tiny tots are suspects in house trashing

"LISTOWEL, Ont. (CP) — Two toddlers who vandalized a southwestern Ontario home this week have been put in the care of children's aid officials, police said Wednesday.
Provincial police said they will not pursue criminal charges against the parents of the 2-year-old boys, who are cousins.
The two boys wandered away from their home Tuesday morning and entered a nearby bungalow through a sliding door, police said.
The boys were discovered there a while later, standing amid a scene of destruction.
A bedroom had been ransacked, the contents of a refrigerator dumped onto the floor, and a large sheet of drywall that had been leaning against a wall was broken.
Homeowners Eileen and Richard Peppler said water was poured into their daughter's electric guitar, plants were knocked over, and one tot's diaper found its way into a basement aquarium.
The barefoot boys — who Clarkson said are both approaching their third birthday — were taken to hospital for a checkup once it was discovered they'd been into plant fertilizer.
One of the boys also cut his feet on broken glass in the kitchen.
The children were discovered missing after police arrived at their home on an unrelated matter and found a door wide open and two adults asleep inside.
Richard Peppler said he's having a hard time believing the boys didn't have an accomplice.
'These must be awfully extraordinary 2-year-olds to do this sort of thing,' Peppler said Wednesday.
'For a pair of two-year-olds to have a steady attention span to continually wreck stuff for two hours ... I think the kids had to have help."

Ok, my favourite part is the diaper in the aquarium in the basement!

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Two Drunken Moose Invade Home for Elderly

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - They rarely have problems with drunks or rowdy animals, but residents of an elderly home in southern Sweden had to deal with both when a pair of intoxicated moose invaded the premises.
The moose - a cow and her calf - had become drunk over the weekend by eating fermented apples they found outside the home in Sibbhult, southern Sweden, said Anna Karlsson, who works there.
Police managed to scare them off once, but the large mammals returned to get more of the tempting fruits. This time the moose were drunk and aggressive, forcing police to send for a hunter with a dog to make them leave.
Police did not pursue the culprits, but made sure all apples were picked up from the area, local police chief Bengt Hallberg said. No one was hurt."



Know Your Real David Cross From Your Fake David Cross

A fake David Cross is running around Manhattan, impersonating the Arrested Development actor. Cross has spoken out, as posted on Gawker:

Hi,
David Cross here. So, about this Imposter guy running around trying to get free drinks and get laid by saying he’s me - There is a simple way to identify him/me. And first of all how fucking creepy is this? What a double douchebag! As well as possibly a potentially dangerous person. Anyway, up until last friday night I was in a 3 and a half year long relationship with my girlfriend whom I was very much in love with [Ed: Whoa — talk about burying the lede!] and wouldn’t have gone home with anybody much less taken them back to “my place” (I just got dumped, so ironically I am now single and this guy is really encroaching on me).
But here’s how you can instantly tell whether or not it’s me - ask to see my tattoo. It’s on my right arm/shoulder and it’s an intricate depiction of a Max Fleisher-esque smiling pig standing upright and serving you his own ribs straight from his open chest (because let’s be honest, I love bar-b-que). There is a pool of blood and entrails by his feet and in a bit of pure tattoo genius, the pig has his own tattoo of the Kosher “k” in a yellow star on his shoulder. If this guy won’t show that to you or he doesn’t have that tattoo, call him on his shit and humiliate him in front of everybody.
This whole thing really pisses me off and I am truly very sorry if anything untoward or worse, unfunny, was done in my name. I will try to make it up to you if I can (hint, hint ladies). Sorry, that last thing was a crude and tasteless example of something this guy might say. As the guy on Hill Street Blues used to say before everyone went off on that day’s assignments; “Let’s be careful out there”.
Thanks for your time,
David Cross (the real one with the tattoo)


Here is one of my favourite Bush quotes of his presidency. It doesn't pack the same punch in written form, but it's still hilarious!
We've been really lucky here in Freddietown and have had a splendid autumn. I just watched Shane stroll off to school for the day and it struck me that it's November and he's just wearing a t-shirt and a light sweater. Even the colour-changing foliage seems to have stuck around a bit longer than usual.
Despite the mild weather, I am starting to get really pumped for the holidays.

I was talking to Ariel last night and she's on top of the game - she's already got the christmas tunes rigged up. I miss my clan. I actually feel normal when I'm around them. I've started to investigate events going on around the T-dot in December. Leafs games. Museum exhibits. Concerts. Sigh! All things that Sleepy Hollow just can't offer. In years past I never get as much done while I'm home as I had planned to. I want this year to be different. I'm going to make a list before I go and pay close attention to how fast the time flies. We always seem to veer off track just being together. Staying up late talking. Getting off to a late start because we sit around and talk. In the words of my mother: "don't just talk about it, DO it!"

Ok now go and treat yourself to a chuckle and watch this freaky Japanses ping pong video. You've got to hand it to humans - we can be pretty silly creatures.

Monday, November 07, 2005

What a Difference 12 Weeks Can Make!!!!!
Hello dear readers. Sorry about the lack of posts over the weekend - Meghan and Erin have been busy boneheads. Erin is currently taking a saturday course - it lasts from 9am until 4pm. Bleh! What a way to spend a lovely indian summer day. Meghan, meanwhile, was whooping it up at the Pan Pacific in Vancouver. What a way to spend an autumn weekend. At least one of us was adding good times to the mental mosaic.
Now back to the topic of the passage of time. Check out how much these little pandas changed in twelve weeks:

From embryonic little pink things with no eyes or ears to a recognizable furry little panda.

I wish that every twelve weeks of my life reflected such progress. Sadly that does not tend to be the case. Sigh... Lately I find myself looking to Miss. Meghan as a source of inspiration - she's managed to grow leaps and bounds as of late and is about to head into her twenty-eighth year of life with a pretty sweet mental inventory of wisdom and a VOICE! (Funny fact: Meghan did not speak until she was three. By age four she was in an immersion environment, depsite having only spoken her mother tongue for less than one calendar year.)
I'm starting to feel like I'm treading water instead of swimming ahead. Pehaps my baby sister can share with me Abbey's magic recipe for barfing out a wisdom nugget like this:

I feel like my mental indigestion is has got me stuck in molasses. Arrrghghhhhhh. As a person who shuns change, this is a mondo hurdle. I recently caught a segment of a show called "Clean Sweep" and I felt so so bad for the poor man who was having to throw out his trophy and baseball cap collections. This is not an option for me - either in the material realm or mental realm. Our father is a history teacher and his father is an armchair historian (a smart smart well-read man, even though he did not finish highschool). How does one reconcile a nostalgic disposition with moving forward?! Solutions evade me at the moment. Humph.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

New No 'Chicken Little' - Kids see suicide:

"A Times Square movie theater laid an egg at a showing of 'Chicken Little' last night.

Adults and kids expecting to watch Disney's G-rated animated flick at the AMC Empire 25 theater on 42nd St. were instead presented with a foreign film that opened with a young man committing suicide.

'It's pandemonium,' Joshua Gallo, 30, told the Daily News as he rushed out of the theater with his 5-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter. 'The kids are crying. The mothers are screaming for the managers to stop the film.'

Terrified children didn't know what to do as they watched a young boy hang himself from a tree at the 8:45 p.m. screening.

After five minutes, 'Andrea,' a Spanish drama opening today, was turned off and 'Chicken Little' was played.

Patrons got a coupon for a free movie."

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

This is pretty sad...
CBC News: 'Desperate' pensioner spared jail after smothering son
"In the years leading up to the death, Markcrow and her family doctor had repeatedly begged local authorities for help in caring for Patrick.

Apart from having Down syndrome, Patrick had developed autistic tendencies that made him self-destructive.

On the weekend of his death, he hit himself in the eye repeatedly to the point where he blinded himself, then stayed in his room screaming and refusing to go to sleep."

Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Tribal girl wants to marry a cobra! - Sify.com
"While bathing she found a cobra getting wrapped around her.
Panic-stricken Kusum shook the reptile off and fell unconscious after that. When she became conscious again, she told her father Bhagaban Nayak and family that she has to marry the cobra."

Report: Police Tasered Christian Slater off roof at Paris Hilton's Halloween bash - CourtTV.com - People: "Slater, who was reportedly intoxicated, climbed to the roof after neighbors complained to police about excessive noise from the party. The New York Post reported that officers used a Taser stun gun on the actor when he refused to come down."

Corey's Competition:Napoleon's tooth is up for auction! "It is believed to have been extracted in 1817 during the French general's exile on the British island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean, after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo two years earlier."

Meghan's long lost rocker sister comes to town...

Imagine being able to freak people out like this? I don't think I'd ever go so far as to get a tattoo like this fellow (and Charles Manson no less!), but it does have a wacky effect.

It's time for me to chisle myself out of my chair and head up to campus for class. Have a great day folks!

BAD BOYS! BAD BOYS! WHATCHA GONNA DO?

Jean Chrétien is blamed and current Prime Minister Paul Martin is completely "exonerated" in a sweeping, often savage report released by Justice John Gomery today. The document represents one of the rare times in Canadian history that a commission of inquiry has reached so high into the federal government to assign blame. Suck a hyena's hairy testicle boys!