Beat this caption:

- "Are you sure this is Baghdad, Ed?"/

Our new President has been in office for just over six months now, which means the 2012 election campaign is heating up.

With unpaid stimulus bills and rising unemployment, the kinks in President Obama's armor are starting to show. On the first day he created the heavens and earth, and on… Read full post »

It's been a busy week in Utah.

The famously pious state opened its bar doors to the public on Wednesday, marking the first time in 40 years when a person could simply walk into a bar and order a drink. The repealed law required patrons to fill out a membership application,… Read full post »

For those who tune in weekly to the PBS smash hit Antique Roadshow, something happened last week in shooting: for the first time in the show's history an item was appraised at over $1,000,000

The item in question are a set of jade Chinese pieces that were created by "imperial order" as
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Nurse took a long drag on a Marlboro Red. It… Read full post »

Iraq. America won the war at midnight last night, pulling out of all major cities as Iraqis lit fireworks and held parties around its urban hubs. Few Americans are left in the cities to train Iraqi Security Forces. The remainding 135,000 troops are now located on the outskirts of towns. The…

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Deciding that news is too much fluff and not enough meat, here is everything you need to know that other people might reference today:

Coup in Honduras: The Honduran military, with the support of Congress, has ousted democratically-elected leader Zelaya. Zelaya was flown into exile in Costa Rica. Hugo… Read full post »

Micheal Jackson -- the only person to write a chart-topping song about zombies -- has died. But just like you can't kill a reanimated corpse, you also can't kill Billy Jean or Beat It. Some things are just timeless.

And some things aren't. Like Farrah Fawcett, dead at 62, or Ed McMahon,
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Can you beat this caption?
 
               -None of the officers had the guts to tell Chief to shower. 
 
(This photo is part of the National Archives 1918 Flu Epidemic online exhibit.  Click… Read full post »

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When Death has to wait for a terminally ill boy to kick the bucket, he ruminates on his life, food, and the boy's attractive mother.  

(this is part of an ongoing work of fiction.  Get caught up at www.rjcrotty.com or at th… Read full post »

The plot thickens on South Carolina governor's unexplained hiatus. With his wife and staff in the dark about where the Governor has been for the past four days, yesterday republican Mark Sanford simply reappeared claiming that he took a hike along the Appalachian Trail.

But now he claims he wasn't hik… Read full post »

The Associated Press reports that Memorial Park Cemetery in Indianapolis is offering a two-for-one sale on its cemetery plots in Indianapolis.

While the recession strikes at American pocketbooks, people are looking to take cost cutting measures all the way to grave. Business is reportedly booming.

From the book of Exodus to Magnolia, amphibians falling from the sky is part of our collective heritage, and also a sign that the world is coming to an end.  Recently, its been raining frogs in Japan.  Same with tadpoles and fish.

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While Americans divine representations of the Virgin Mary from salt stains on underpasses (see author photo), Hindus find incarnations of their gods in remote caves icicles located in the Himalayan mountains at 12,000 feet in the nuclear battleground between India and Pakistan.

Over the past t… Read full post »