Goats. They get a surprisingly large amount of press. Why is that? I have a theory. I think they’re media whores. Oh sure, they might look complacent and oblivious to the presence of a camera, but underneath it all, they love the spotlight.
And $300,000 worth of spotlight is exactly what a bunch of goat-loving Australians [...]
A Toronto artist, wanting to make a point about gas consumption, modified a Buick (no engine, no transmission, candles for headlights) and made it so that it’s propelled by its passengers. He calls it a “shared propulsion vehicle.”
“The car, which has a top speed of 15 kilometres an hour, requires all four occupants to pedal [...]
I was searching around for weird marriage stories (to go along with my previous features of man marries dog, man marries goat, and 102-year-old man gets married) when I found one about the world’s tallest man (7′9″ 
marrying a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him. But that’s not the most interesting part of [...]
A 27-year-old Chinese waitress was born with both feet facing the wrong way. The woman is quoted as saying:
“I can run faster than most of my friends and have a regular job as a waitress in the family restaurant. There is no reason to class me as disabled.”
Read the full article and see photos at [...]
In one of the poorest areas of the world, where women are commonly denied education, subjected to abuse, and married off before they even reach puberty, a group of women is banding together to fight the system.
“Two years after they gave themselves a name and an attire, the women in pink have thrashed men who have abandoned [...]
A man who is over a century old became Lithuania’s oldest bridegroom recently when he married a 76-year-old woman. The bride, however, broke no records, as Lithuania’s oldest bride was 80. Read the entire story at The Sydney Morning Herald.
I hope they don’t get too crazy on their honeymoon.
This is an older story that ran in the BBC news, but one worth mentioning in light of my recent post about an man marrying a dog in India. A Sudanese man was forced by town elders to marry a goat after he was caught having intimate relations with it:
“‘They said I should not take [...]
A 33-year-old Indian man, believing he had been cursed after killing 2 dogs as a teenager, atoned for his sins by marrying a stray dog. The marriage was traditional as the man’s family chose the bride. Foxnews.com writes:
“Selva Kumar had been hounded for 15 years by the memory of a horrible act he’d committed as a [...]
According to this article by John Coleman on the site, ICECAP (International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project), global warming does not exist. (On a personal note, I work for an environmental firm and have heard more than one scientist at my company say the same thing.) Here is what Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, [...]
Four workers died in Wisconsin recently, each of the last 3 in an attempt to save the one before him.
“Toxic fumes are believed to have killed four workers whose bodies were pulled from a 12-foot-deep sewer line near a construction company landfill, authorities said Friday…
‘First one goes down and is overcome by gas and drops [...]
