It’s Never Sunny in North Korea • North Korea’s World Cup adventure began auspiciously with a hard-fought 2-1 loss to a superior Brazil team, leading the government to release photographs […]
News of the Weird
News of the Weird weekly column.
Outer frontiers of U.S. immigration policy
The Outer Frontiers of U.S. Immigration Policy The $125 million Jay Peak ski resort in Vermont, with 120-room hotel, ice arena, golf course and the Northeast’s largest water park, is […]
Birth tourism!
Lead Story Among the promotions offered by New York City’s upscale Marmara Manhattan hotel is a “birth tourism” package exploiting the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment. For about $35,000, a foreign […]
Fat Fetish
Lead Story While the morbidly obese struggle with their health, those who eroticize massive weight gain are capturing increased attention, according to a July ABC News report. Commercial and personal […]
Ozzy: Still alive
Lead Story “Why are you still alive?” is the question doctors ask Ozzy Osbourne, the hard-rock singer and reality-TV star, who says he is now clean and sober after a […]
Paying people to take their meds?
Lead Story A severe but underappreciated American drug problem (sometimes deadly and often expensive) is patients’ failure to take prescribed medications — even to save their own lives (such as […]
‘Holistic rubrics’
Lead Story New York state school officials had promised to crack down on soft test-grading to end the near-automatic grade-advancement by students unprepared for promotion. However, a June New York […]
Norwegian prisons
Lead Story It’s clear, based on a May Time magazine dispatch, that Norway’s felons and miscreants are of a superior class than America’s. When Norway’s brand-new Halden prison opened in […]
America, what a country!
America, What a Country! In 2007, after a stay in the United States distinguished mainly by his acquisition of a long police record, illegal immigrant Cecil Harvey, 55, was deported […]
Unenlightened pediatrics
Lead Story American families from certain Asian and African cultures continue to ritually “circumcise” their young daughters, though the practice is illegal in the U.S. and most of the world. […]
World’s Most Litigious Tennis Pro
Lead Story Briton Robert Dee, feeling humiliated at being called the “world’s worst tennis pro” by London’s Daily Telegraph (and other news organizations) sued the newspaper for libel last year. […]
Boobquake!
Boobquake! In mid-April, senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi issued a warning that recent earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and elsewhere were caused by women’s loose sex and immodest dress. Immediately, […]
