Savior SUVs, a Demon Potato, a Third Gender
and the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday, December 8, 2008
Australia's human rights commission proposes to create an official "third gender" for gov't documents, but then the transgender people complained that there are really four because some people just don't know what they are (or change their minds from day to day). Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Motorist Michael Montgomery was arrested for doing donuts on the Beaver County (Pa.) Airport runway, but it's OK 'cause the FAA gave him permission. Associated Press via WEWS-TV (Cleveland)
Deborah Tanner, 56, was charged with trying to kill her husband (though she said he welcomed it, because of poor health), even though she didn't do it right (overdose, three neck stabbings, with two of the knives still impaled when she gave up and called police). Bradenton Herald
Bailout Prayer Day at Detroit's Greater Grace Pentecostal Temple had auto workers gathered 'round the altar of three sparkling-white, hybrid SUVs to receive consecrated oil anointments. New York Times
A farmer in southern Lebanon claims the Guinness Book record for largest potato and . . Aiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!, what is it! Arrrghhhhh!!! Aarrrghhhh!!!!!! . . Middle East Online [link from Arbroath]
Daily "tick off Evangelicals" news: Britain's Oxford University Press, which chooses words carefully for its junior dictionaries (small enough to fit in little hands), added a lot of techno-secular words this year and cleared out the useless ones, like "bishop," "saint," "sin," and "minister." Daily Telegraph
A startup called Virtual Greats expects to make money selling celebrity-licensed merchandise except it's not real, i.e., your avatar buys the right to wear Justin Timberlake's fedora (and/or to sell it in the secondary market under the Greater Fool Theory). New York Times
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
This is an example of the American ingenuity that will bring us out of this economic crisis: the combination AR-15/chainsaw ("firearm-mounted anti-zombie device"). AR15.com
Today's Newsrangers: Tom Barker, Stephen Taylor, Philip Urban, Larry Ellis Reed, Bruce Leiserowitz
Comments on the Afternoon Edition of Chuck's News of the Weird Daily for Monday?
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Australia's human rights commission proposes to create an official "third gender" for gov't documents, but then the transgender people complained that there are really four because some people just don't know what they are (or change their minds from day to day). Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
Motorist Michael Montgomery was arrested for doing donuts on the Beaver County (Pa.) Airport runway, but it's OK 'cause the FAA gave him permission. Associated Press via WEWS-TV (Cleveland)
Deborah Tanner, 56, was charged with trying to kill her husband (though she said he welcomed it, because of poor health), even though she didn't do it right (overdose, three neck stabbings, with two of the knives still impaled when she gave up and called police). Bradenton Herald
Bailout Prayer Day at Detroit's Greater Grace Pentecostal Temple had auto workers gathered 'round the altar of three sparkling-white, hybrid SUVs to receive consecrated oil anointments. New York Times
A farmer in southern Lebanon claims the Guinness Book record for largest potato and . . Aiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!, what is it! Arrrghhhhh!!! Aarrrghhhh!!!!!! . . Middle East Online [link from Arbroath]
Daily "tick off Evangelicals" news: Britain's Oxford University Press, which chooses words carefully for its junior dictionaries (small enough to fit in little hands), added a lot of techno-secular words this year and cleared out the useless ones, like "bishop," "saint," "sin," and "minister." Daily Telegraph
A startup called Virtual Greats expects to make money selling celebrity-licensed merchandise except it's not real, i.e., your avatar buys the right to wear Justin Timberlake's fedora (and/or to sell it in the secondary market under the Greater Fool Theory). New York Times
Professor Music's Weird Link o' the Day
This is an example of the American ingenuity that will bring us out of this economic crisis: the combination AR-15/chainsaw ("firearm-mounted anti-zombie device"). AR15.com
Today's Newsrangers: Tom Barker, Stephen Taylor, Philip Urban, Larry Ellis Reed, Bruce Leiserowitz
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