Canada’s post office and police are trying to track down a “rogue elf” who wrote obscene letters to children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on Friday. The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa this year care of the North Pole, which has a special H0H 0H0 Canadian postal code. Return letters from

US Vice President Dick Cheney (L) and President George W. Bush walk towards the Rose Garden in the White House. Bush has urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to fully disclose his country’s nuclear programs, stores of atomic materials, and any “proliferation activities.”US Vice President Dick Cheney (L) and President George W. Bush walk towards the Rose Garden in the White House. Bush has urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il to

Which sounds like another way of saying “emotional baggage.”  Since Dr. Helen’s post yesterday on Nice Guys garnered hardly any interest from bloggers such as Ace, I passed it along to her, just to stir the pot a bit. There is one thing that I thought the writer could have right, though.  Some guys might get rejected because of their “short-comings.” 

  I’ve been backpacking through Thailand with the armadillo — who has become a mini-celebrity on the Muay Thai scene after dropping a tequila-fueled Rob Kaman at a nightclub with a low right round kick and a pair of knees. See you guys after New Year’s. I’ll try and send you more photos when I get the chance. Thanks for taking care of the place, and have a good Christmas

I don’t know which of their sententious dwarfs this is, but he’s as incredulous as he might be if he were interviewing a four-headed creature from flyover country:  In an interview on Fox News recently, you said that the government should not be bailing out people whose mortgages are about to reset to interest rates that they can’t afford. Foreclosures are at record rates right now. Wouldn’t doing nothing — as millions of Americans

The British media is awash with speculation that Adolf Hitler’s love child may have been born in the UK in 1940 and he could still be living there. Well, the British media are generally awash with speculation over something, but if nothing else, this has delicious BBC sitcom possibilities.  The Mitfords were rather a sitcom in and of themselves.  And the compound name Hitler-Mitford is excellent.

The retro garde art “movement” known as Crapismo has never really gone away since its inception, but recently has been eclipsed by the more fluid Pissism and Crotchrocketry schools.  Now, Santiago Sierra has arrived to revitalize classical Crappism: An artist is inviting Londoners to come face-to-face with the wretched labour of one of India’s lowest castes – by filling an art gallery with 21 big blocks of human excrement. The

Dr. David Hazinski, former NBC correspondent turned associate professor of telecommunications and head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, finds unfettered “citizen journalism” too risky and argues that the news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend. As you might guess, the reaction in the blogosphere to Hazinski’s piece has been (as I write this) uniformly negative.  Generally, the