According to USA Today, many American seniors are retiring to Mexico due to its improved climate and lower cost of living. Seems like a fair trade to me. America gets the young laborers and Mexico gets our tired, our poor and our huddled masses. Nice. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: immigration mexico retirement elderly
Added: Thu, 16 Aug 2007

A US soldier paid $500 for someone to shoot him in the leg so he would not have to return to Iraq. Too bad the Iraqi people don't have that option. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: iraq
Added: Thu, 16 Aug 2007

An NYPD study on homegrown terrorism concluded that "average citizens who band together and adopt radical ways pose a growing threat to American security." Forget al Qaeda. It's the Amish we gotta watch. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: nyc new york al qaeda terrorism
Added: Thu, 16 Aug 2007

Chinese manufacturers have shipped nearly 19 million lead-tainted toys to America's children. Thus begins the invasion. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: china toys globalization war
Added: Thu, 16 Aug 2007

Rudy Giuliani's daughter supports Obama for president. What they haven't told you is that she also supports Obama for "Dad." [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Political
Keywords:
Added: Wed, 15 Aug 2007

Sen. John McCain said if he’s elected president— well, it doesn’t really matter what he said after that, now does it? [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Political
Keywords: mccain election
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

A Montana man claims he found a fried mouse in his bag of Frito-Lay potato chips. The company explained he had merely found one of its limited edition “Ratatouille Flavored” chips as part of a Pixar promotion. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Weird
Keywords: disgusting
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor called for increased civics education in America’s schools to help citizens appreciate the separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Conservative critics accused O’Connor of judicial overreach. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Political
Keywords: supreme court activist judges civics
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

Doctors found no cancer in the five small growths removed from President Bush’s colon. The polyps were, however, packed with large amounts of bullshit, like “Mission Accomplished,” “We have to fight them over there so we don’t fight them here” and “I do solemnly swear that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Political
Keywords: bush cancer president
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

In a so-called “wrongful birth” case, a jury awarded $21 million to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems. The couple sued the doctor because there was no address on record to send a subpoena to God. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: Weird
Keywords: lawsuit medical
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

Researchers have proven that it’s possible to hack into an Apple iPhone over the web and take over the device. What are they going to do, call my friends? Listen to my music? Browse the web on a smaller screen and slower connection than they one they used to hack into my phone?? [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: apple iphone
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

One in three residents of Southern coastal Florida said they would ignore hurricane evacuation warnings. Cool, that means we can ignore one in three cries for help. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: hurricane florida
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

Emergency workers in England rushed to restore power to 350,000 people after the country’s worst flooding in 60 years. The English people explained, “Yo America, this is how it’s done.” [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: england floods fema disaster
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

An Iraq veteran who lost his left hand in combat was the first to show off a bionic hand known as the i-LIMB. Apple is expected to sue the maker of the i-LIMB for violating its trademark on the first person singular pronoun. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: apple iraq war
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007

The stock market dropped amid renewed fears about the collapsing mortgage industry. Wall Street is beginning to realize that homeless people don’t buy shit. [more]

Author: Baratunde Thurston
Category: News
Keywords: stock market mortgage
Added: Thu, 26 Jul 2007