Category: Weird

Detroit has a long standing problem of population loss.  Now it’s getting so bad, even the dead are leaving [Former link to an article talking about people being dug up and moved in Detroit].  I think Mike Nutter needs to make Philadelphia’s new slogan “Philadelphia: We’re not Detroit.”  Pride has to start somewhere, you know.

UPDATE: Someone in the comments points out that this could be bad news for the Democratic Party, since the dead are an important political constituency for them.

I was looking around for a toy I had when I was a kid.  Basically a water powered rocket that you pumped up, and it would launch about 30 feet in the air.

“Well, if it goes so far up, then surely it would fly a good distance horizontally, especially if I aimed it at…. my sister!”

Well, turns out it hurts really bad to get beamed in the head with a water rocket, so it was no more rocket propelled toys for me after that.  I figured almost certainly the Safety Nazi Nanny Staters would have banned that bit of fun by now, but no…  You can still buy one.  Of course, the same basic principle eventually leads to this:

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When I think of camouflage, BBQ sauce isn’t that high on the list.

Apparently in a French military demonstration, sixteen adults and children were wounded when someone mixed up blanks with live ammunition.  I wonder what kind of demo would involve shooting blanks at someone?  A firing squad demo?

Ahab has some thoughts on a comment that appeared last night on the blog.  Normally, I’ll delete crazy shit like that, but sometimes I think we have to confront the skeletons in the closet of our movement.  I tend to think most folks like that are internet brave, and actually wouldn’t follow through with their threat.  But there are folks out there, thankfully a small minority, who don’t believe violence against a government is an absolute last resort; a measure only to be resorted to when there’s no legal or political option left for the protecton of constitutional rights.  They believe they get to be judge, jury and executioner when it comes to enforcing their own interpretation of their right to bear arms.  It’s an attitude that I think needs to be confronted, rather than swept under the rug.

“British Columbia Severed Feet Mystery Deepens.” I tend to think when you have severed feet washing up on shore, complete with socks and shoes, that mystery is starting off on a level that’s already about as deep as you can get.  I’m also rather surprised that this article reveals that body parts washing up on shore isn’t all that unusual.  I don’t know about you, but if I’m out in the surf with a boogie board, and I notice an uninvited passenger that turns out to be an arm, leg, or severed head — that’s it man, my ocean going days are over.

Grown from cat poop.   No, seriously.

Bruce seems to have found a mystery object.  I’m stumped.  Any of you have an idea?

This is very wrong.  This is a joke right?  It is April Fools Day, after all.

UPDATE: My friend Jason tells me that when it comes to putting stuffed cats onto guns, the Israeli Defense Forces don’t fool around.

High tension lines really can light up fluorescent lights.  The Barenaked Ladies even wrote a song about it:

A Hydro-field cuts through my neighborhood
Somehow that always just made me feel good
I can put a spare bulb in my hand
And light up my yard