Like many in the insulated west, I've long been fascinated by North Korea, what life is like in there, and what will happen to the peninsula after the walls come down. (Of course, I'm half a world away, so I have the luxury of being fascinated with North ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/13/2010 - 07:19 - 0 comments

A Montreal man has had his lawsuit against Air Transat dismissed. He was suing the airline because the flight attendants refused to help him look at his scrotum and determine why it had started bleeding on a flight (they gave him some sanitary towels and ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 23:52 - 0 comments

For 50 years, residents of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit have tried to understand the "cursed bread" incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums. Now the mystery is solved: ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 23:28 - 0 comments

A Wichita, Kansas man was apparently beaten up by a drug dealer after the man paid for crack cocaine with Monopoly money. The man, who was bleeding from the head when police pulled him over, said he had purchased the drugs weeks before and the dealer was ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 13:29 - 0 comments

What the hell, planet earth! Chile was just slammed by a 7.2 aftershock , as inaugural ceremonies for right-wing billionaire president-elect Sebastián Piñera began in Valparaiso. Chile was devastated by an 8.8-magnitude quake on Feb. 27. ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 09:06 - 0 comments

Mississippi's Itawamba County school district has cancelled a prom after Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old student, asked permission to bring her girlfriend as her date. The student planned to wear a tux. The school district's bureaucratic non-excuse for ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/11/2010 - 07:56 - 0 comments

Corey Haim, star of "The Lost Boys," is dead at 38 . [AP] --> (news, Technology) news, Technology ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/10/2010 - 08:25 - 0 comments

The city of Detroit is proposing to give over a quarter of its land to be turned into "semi-rural" fields and farms, with the surviving neighborhoods standing in "pockets in expanses of green." The proposal is politically charged (serving a death-sentence ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/09/2010 - 22:51 - 0 comments

Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump is reported to have been caught selling illegal whale meat to its customers . Who went after them with hidden cameras? The guys behind the dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove . Image ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/09/2010 - 15:14 - 0 comments

Not only are torture techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced stress positions evil, they don't work very well for interrogation. Jacques Vallee talked about that on BB last year in his provocative essay, " Waterboarding's curious ...

feed item - whytewolf - 03/09/2010 - 12:48 - 0 comments