Congressional committees of the future

Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued a statement announcing the (All) Republican appointments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s new Select Investigative Panel. Will they focus on energy? Will they focus on commerce? No! They will expend energy on the ‘so called’ ‘grisly practices of big abortion providers’. The committee has 31 Republicans […]

refined sugar; friend or faux friend?

  Yearly, America produces 35 million pounds of: A, second hand spit from smokeless tobacco B, Weight gain from soda in Miami high schools C, Candy Corn The average American consumes between 3 and 4 pounds of candy over Halloween. This equals the sugar they’ll get from an average day’s consumption of café Cubano.. Eating […]

Big Ben’s ‘bong’ besmirched by brittle bowels

The ‘bong’ of Big Ben, the familiar sound Londoners hear on the hour, will not break the staid British air during urgent repairs to the timeless timepiece. Two of Britain’s largest newspapers reported that Parliament’s massive clock and the tower that supports it need as much as 40 million pounds of repairs ($70 billion in […]

Scorpions on a plane; worse than cramped seating?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Arachnids (PETA) filed a lawsuit against a woman stung by a scorpion on an Alaska Airlines flight. In their brief, lawyers for the scorpion said “She (our client) was merely trying to get some ‘elbow room’ in an already cramped seat. This woman almost crushed it when she tried […]