The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded yesterday evening in Cambridge, MA. There were awards for the bra that converts quickly to two gas masks, a study of why pregnant women don’t tip over, the award for literature, and other gems. Ireland’s police won the literature prize from writing more […]

In another entry from the We’re All Doomed Department, a Swedish couple have finally succeeded in their legal campaign for their son to have the crap royally kicked out of him at school to be called Q, overturning two previous rulings by lower courts. Parents of a Jämtland boy learned […]

Take a look at this time-delay video and dare to disagree. It’s actually quite spooky in a chilling sort of way. Barack Obama’s amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Hat-tip to CHome.

Or in one picture, to be precise. TheEye spotted this in the Daily Telegraph today whilst propped up against a bar and laughed. And laughed. And laughed. And then made a mental note to blog with a copy. Really, if you are a spin-doctor this isn’t just a resignation photograph. […]

If there are limits to how far the politically correct brigade will push their depraved agenda, we haven’t reached them yet – although we must be getting close with this: A school in England called an emergency assembly to tell children that a 12-year-old male pupil was having a sex […]

Never mind the financial crisis, if temperatures don’t stop rising dropping, we’re all going to burn up freeze to death. Clearly we must destroy what’s left of our economy immediately. That’s the message of a bunch of geriatric has-beens from the music world, organized by another has-been best known for his […]

Late Friday, the Obama administration quietly announced that they would be meeting with Iran with no pre-conditions, just as Obama promised during the first part of his never-ending campaign. Unfortunately for Obama, it seems that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad understands how to move from “campaigning” to “governance” much better: Iran snubs Barack […]

It seems as though Sarah Palin’s fight against Obamacare’s death panels was only just in time for the Yanks (her response to Obama’s healthcare lecture to Congress here). It saved them from even more extreme bureaucrat-driven socialized medicine than they may soon be inflicted with. Today’s tale of terror from […]

If you read The Sun you’ll believe that the web is crawling with dodgy characters and every mouse-click brings your daughter closer to a horrible fate at the hands of a 40-something tattooed truck driver from Idaho called Zac. Paranoia swiftly leads to market forces and in turn mean buying a […]

The wife of Japan’s next prime minister claims to have clocked up a diplomatic first by visiting Venus. Miyuki Hatoyama, who’s hitched to Yukio Hatoyama, wrote last year in a book not unreasonably entitled Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered: “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on […]