is that the girls all dress up as the same thing, even though their actual costumes may vary – a skank.

This poor guy – after being on a bowling team for 45 years – bowled his first perfect game and immediately dropped dead of a heart attack.

“It was like a book, a final chapter,” says Place. “He threw his 300 game with all of his friends, gave each other high-fives and it’s like the story ended. He died with a smile on his face.”

Some people might say it’s not a bad way to go, and I guess it’s not, comparatively.  Considering the several other ways I’ve nearly died, given my druthers, I’d prefer to drop dead after a sporting achievement.  But I can’t imagine how this man’s wife must be feeling right now.

Japan will fire air force chief General Toshio Tamogami for saying that Tokyo was ensnared into World War Two by the United States and was not an aggressor, the country’s defence minister said on Friday.

Campaigners in London planned to petition the British government Friday for a posthumous pardon for the hundreds of people executed for witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries. … “We were gobsmacked to discover that though the law was changed hundreds of years ago and society had moved on, the victims were never officially pardoned.”

I agree with Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister who said (in response to the suggestion that the Catholic Church apologize to Darwin), “Maybe we should abandon the idea of issuing apologies as if history was a court eternally in session.”