Showing posts with label tragedy for the day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tragedy for the day. Show all posts

January 3, 2010

Facebook Status of a Young Muslim:

"YOU TAKE MY WATER, BURN MY OLIVE TREES, DESTROY MY HOUSE, TAKE MY JOB, STEAL MY LAND, IMPRISON MY FATHER, KILL MY MOTHER, BOMB MY COUNTRY, STARVE US ALL, HUMILIATE US ALL . . . BUT I AM TO BLAME: I SHOT A ROCKET BACK!"

Note the 1st item (you take my water).

(Thanks, Mari333!)

February 4, 2009

Lux Interior

(lead singer of The Cramps) is dead.



(Compare and contrast.)

The NYT
's obit here.

April 24, 2008

Penis Theft Panic

Ok, I'm a girl; it's easy for me to laugh . . .

"Purported victims [in Congo], 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure. [And like, how did that touching come about?] . . . .

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

More here.

UPDATE: Once again, TDS covered this story several days AFTER I did -- more evidence someone there reads me (i'm kidding, but).