Headlines that make you go "WTF"

Need money? Blame Google maps.

After all, they didn't include a warning that it's dumb to cross a busy snowcovered highway in January.

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Latest NYTimes "victims": students who were too good to go to ordinary schools and now moan they can't pay back those huge bills for their private college tuition.

Especially those who get a degree in "women's studies", and want to live in expensive San Francisco...
Hint: get a nursing degree, and then pay it back working for a living.
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Groups tell FCC there is a need to police "hate speech".

Can you say "Astroturf", children?

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"Peace activists" deliberately try to start a war...

StrategyPage has the facts,

"...The donors of tons of supplies in the three cargo ships, could have landed the supplies at an Israeli port, and have them shipped legally into Gaza (where supplies arrive daily that way.) But the pro-Hamas activists want Israeli control over what goes in, or out, of Gaza, to be removed, so that terrorists can move weapons in and attackers out, at will.

Egypt and Israel refuse to go along with this, as both nations have been attacked by the many Islamic terror groups that have established themselves in Gaza.

Wealthy Arabs, Turkish politicians and European leftists (who put together this "rescue fleet" stunt) still glamorize Palestinian terror groups, even though these outfits kill more Arabs, and cause more misery to Arabs, than to Israelis. It's all about the message, not the reality."
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StrategyPage says go and enjoy yourself at the World Cup.

Yes, SouthAfrica's murder rates are high, but they point out the murder rates in various countries are a lot worse, but SA keeps statistics.

and don't worry, the spirits have been appeased LINK

apparently, 43 died there after a stampede a couple years ago, so local healers held a ceremony to put the spirits to rest.


headsup Savage Minds(anthropology blog).
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Good news: Acupuncture works. Bad news: it's the placebo effect.

Now, if they could only scientifically explain placebo effect.
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You heard about the teaparty protesters?
Well Berkeley has a TeaCosy protest.

Rogue knitters encamped along the Berkeley-Oakland border with lawn chairs, tea cakes and knitting projects to protest the city of Berkeley's order that they remove an 8-foot knitted tea cozy they sewed over the T in a public sculpture they believe insults Oakland.

headsup davebarry