A group of retired Air Force officers held a press conference Monday to announce that aliens rendered cold war era nukes inoperable. The officers say that aliens support the Presidents policy on nukes.
Tinfoil Tuesdays: UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim | Danger Room | Wired.com.
Sometimes when things are going wrong and it seems like you just can’t do it all yourself, you might be tempted to give up on atheist believes and pursue religion.
Tuft’s University hopes to stop religiosity before students lose hope in humanism.
A heretic’s chaplain – Tufts Daily – Op-Ed.
A Florida man bet his friends that he could swim across the canal behind his house. If he made it, his friends owed him $50. If he didn’t make it, he knew he would never have to pay the $50. It’s a win-win situation.
Taxing alcoholic drinks that are popular with teens does not curb their drinking – so a study says.
Perhaps that’s because teens aren’t buying their own alcohol to begin with. It appears that teens with parents who buy them alcohol are willing to pay a small tax for their childrens’ refreshment.
Alcopop tax fails to curb teenage drinkers.
A cartoonist who attempted to prove a point by inviting the world to participate in “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” is now in hiding according to the FBI. Overwhelming death threats have lead the cartoonist to believe that the extremist Muslims can’t come after everybody – but they can come after the leader of the movement.
‘Mohammed Day’ Cartoonist in Hiding After Death Threats – NYTimes.com.
A man in an Elmo suit walks into a Guitar Center.
Another man in the Guitar Center says, “Are you trying to threaten me?”
“I just want to look at the guitars,” says Elmo
The man throws punches and Elmo defends himself by breaking to of the assailant’s fingers.
Funny story or bad joke?
In a demonstration to the press, Volvo demonstrated their new pedestrian avoidance system catapult.
Jimi Heselden, the millionaire who bought the Segway (don’t call it a scooter) company. Died this week after going off a cliff while riding a Segway. These are the same miracle devices that the designer touted were impossible to crash.
Five minutes of Google searches would lead us to believe that Heselden holds the record for first Segway death. He purchased the company earlier this year. He also owned several jet aircraft which he few often.
Segway owner Jimi Heselden dies after riding one of his machines off cliff | Mail Online.
David Jonathan Winkelman was arrested for something on September 27. It doesn’t really matter what he was arrested for, it’s his mugshot that makes his arrest newsworthy.
UPDATE: A commenter on The Smoking Gun where the story originates adds some wonderful details about this story and the telling of it:
“The story here on the Smoking Gun is PACKED with factual errors. I know because I was there. There was NEVER a promise of money. There was NEVER a “wacky radio stunt.” Representatives from the station went to the tatto parlor and BEGGED these two dopes not to do it and it was made very clear to them they would recieve nothing. What sucks is The Smoking Gun rehashes this old story with all of these errors and a ton of other media outlets just copy and paste it and present it as “news’. Let me assure you, the REAL story is ten times more hillarious/tragic than this. At one point he claimed the incident was causing him to go into frequent cardiac arrest which was a problem because doctors had given him a monkey heart. I can’t do the entire story here justice, but please do some fact checking before you give these to dopes an additional 15 minutes.”
Thanks for the update Smoking Gun commenter. Please click on the link for the story that started it all.
Minor Iowa Arrest Makes Headlines | The Smoking Gun.
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We are back from trials, robot conventions, teaching lectures and herding children. This week’s episode makes of for all the time we were gone. We discuss everything from Debbie Gibson (yes, we know it’s Deborah Gibson now) and Twilight to crime and Ted Kennedy.
You will find all of the show notes and links to the stories we discuss in our between episode posts here on the Watercooler All-stars site.
