A former track athlete at Central Connecticut State University is suing the school over his coach demanding that he drink a cup of blood as part of a team "tribal ritual".
Another drink provoked a man to go after his roommates with a sword. The man was infuriated when he found a coke can in his room, believing that the drink meant someone had been trespassing.
Major news media types are in a snit and sniping at each other. Fox News is the only major news outlet left out of the Obama Sunday guest marathon. Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace said the White House is inhabited by the "biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington." "There's kind of childishness or pettiness about it."
Meanwhile, President Obama chided the media for "feeding the heated tone of the criticism of his health care plan". "Sometimes I think that, frankly, the media encourages some of the
outliers in behavior, because, let's face it, the easiest way to get on
television right now is to be really rude."
Further, tv news rivals to Fox News are laying into that channel after Fox placed a full page ad in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the New York Post claiming that Fox was the only tv news outlet to cover last week's Tea Party march on Washington.
Last spring, Egypt killed all the pigs which used to roam its streets over fears of the Swine Flu. Now, Egypt is confronted with a severe garbage problem. Rotting garbage is piling up in every street. Seems the former pigs used to serve as the country's garbage collectors, eating tons of organic waste. Now there seems to be no idea what to do with it. Re-use, Re-cycle, compost.
Did you know Huntington West Virginia is either the unhealthiest or the fattest town on earth? English chef, Jamie Oliver thinks so and is spending several weeks there trying to change everything from supermarkets to school lunches.
What could happen when Washington State mental hospital officials take an insane killer on an outing to the local county fair? If you guessed, um, he escaped then you're correct.