Archive for August, 2007

Barry Bonds’ home run balls aren’t getting any attention.
However, some chewed-up Michael Vick football cards have sold for $7,400 in an eBay auction with proceeds going to the Humane Soci…

My older sister, a teenager at the time, once bowled a 6.
Yup. She threw the ball 20 times and only knocked down six pins.
Then there are the people who throw the ball backwards, hit the ceiling or b…

A 41-year old fireman and a 36-year old office workerbee in Japan were arrested for hiring a girl that both knew was under 18 for sex.
The law they violated was the Law for Punishing Acts Related to C…

Chinese lawmakers have had to propose legislation to get their scientists to try.
In an effort to promote innovation and clamp down on fraud, China’s law makers are trying new laws to remove the…

‘Can’t buy me love’ is the name of an old Beatles’ song.
‘Can’t buy me a stripper’, either is what a knucklehead in Nashville, TN will be singing after h…

The 12-year old boy’s mother paid for it without knowing…she says.
The boy’s aunt knew what she was doing.
The kid learned that if he acted up, he could get something else up.
Aunt L…

A counterterrorism detective (Jack Bauer wannabe) flunked a drug test.
He says it’s because his wife spiked his meatballs with marijuana.
The police department isn’t buying his excuse and …

I am American but I need to rely on a word I learned while in Japan to describe the situation of this woman in Taiwan.
Low self image? Who knows why people do what they do?
A woman received saline bre…

Japan’s adult video screening body, the Nihon Ethics of Video Association, let several Tokyo companies sell overly obscene videos and DVDs.
Consequently…the screeners needed screening.
Ja…

A Harvard Law Professor says playing poker teaches life lessons.
His bet is that if he can convince people that it is true he will be able to offer poker workshops to schools and universities worldwid…