I was pointed (by digg, of course) to the website for a new soft drink called Celsius. The makers of the drink claim that it raises your metabolism for a period of time resulting increased calorie burn during that time. I popped over to their FAQ to see how they account for this and I […]

An oxymoron AND ice fishing in the same post! Nobody expected that on this Thursday morning.
For some reason consideration of the feasibility of this idea was keeping me awake last night. Let’s say you and a friend decided to play a joke on some ice fishermen. To pull this off you need a helicopter, a […]

Take your sweetheart to White Castle.

For the past few weeks, White Castle Restaurants (and I use that term loosely) have been taking reservations for tonight for romantic dinners. Accommodations include table service, linens, flowers, candles, the whole nine yards. Call now! I called the hotline for the Chicago area White Castles and some of them […]

Idiocy is all around us. It reaches all the way from Hollywood to the District of Columbia. One look at the weekend’s box office figures or the results from the 2004 elections confirm that most Americans are firm supporters of the Church of Idiocy. I propose that in honor of Charles Darwin’s 198th birthday we […]

It’s one of TV’s hottest game shows. NBC’s Deal or no Deal challenges contestants to select one briefcase out of a set of 26 numbered but otherwise identical cases. Each case contains a sign worth an amount of money ranging from one cent to one million dollars. Players pick one case at the beginning of […]

I’m so going to hell for this post. Here’s why.
To the general public this desire probably seems sick and strange. I mean, the Wii is something that everyone loves and to lose one if you have one is incomprehensible. Most people want the latest and greatest in home entertainment but ever since late 2006 I’ve […]

There’s a Daycare center near my house. I live in the city of Chicago so the scene you should be picturing is that of a one-way city street with cars parallel parked on both sides. In the evenings people double park while waiting for their kids. Some EXTRA CLEVER people will wait in the alley […]

I was going to title this post “2006: The Year Without Movies” because it really felt like I hardly ever went to the movies last year. When I sat down today and began checking off the number of movies I saw in the theaters I came up with 15. This caused me to pause and […]

Men arrested for murdering “ghost” brides
Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:50 AM ET
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.
Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in […]