Month: February 2007

  • Digg: Chavez fixes prices,profit motive evaporates,Result: massive food shortages

    CARACAS, Venezuela — Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices. read more | digg story

  • But who guards the guards?

    120 prisoners escaped from a North Korean concentration camp yesterday. They were imprisoned for the crime of .. trying to escape from North Korea. In related news, an entire platoon of border guards (one of the most lucrative jobs in that country) escaped the next day. Both groups were risking their lives to escape to…

  • The earth is going to explode…

    … because of global warming. Next week: boils, locusts, darkness, and your firstborn.

  • Global Warming Alert

    Global warming is causing a porcupine to loose his prickles. If you’re not in hysterics about global warming, you hate porcupines. You don’t hate cute little porcupines, do you? More things blamed on global warming.