As I was perusing the headlines looking for this week’s news roundup, I noticed that there has been a lot of nature-type stuff going on recently. So here I present you with my very first themed edition of News of the Week! Note: Starting today, News of the Week is moving to Saturdays. A trip to the UK brings us our next story, also featuring creepy-crawlies. This time the critters are…earthworms? And people are trying to get them to come out of the ground? Has the world gone mad??? This week the town of Cornwall hosted its third annual Falmouth Worm Charming Championships. Third? Was this not silly enough the…
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If you read last week’s edition of News of the Week, you saw that the giant rubber ducks are back in the harbor in Hong Kong. But I have terrible news! One of the ducks got overinflated due to the extremely hot weather and they had to deflate him! Now the other duck is super lonely and misses his pal. 😢 Photo: AP Photo/Louise Delmotte OK, technically this was a story from last week and not this week but I don’t care because this is some wild and scary shit. A tow truck was on the side of a Georgia highway when a woman drove at full speed up the…
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We all know that the major news this week was… But you know I always try to find the lighter side of the news, and this week brought us a tale of two (er, three) ducks… Does anyone else remember the giant ducks that were in the harbor in Hong Kong about a decade ago? They’re back! I remember it being a big story at the time, and frankly I’m rather offended that it’s been ten years already because it seems like it was just a couple of years ago, but then again I’m old. (Photo: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu) And this week’s feel-good story comes from New Jersey, where a magician…
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A few stories that caught my eye this week. A truck hits the Onondaga Lake Parkway bridge. Again. Seriously folks, there are like a hundred signs lining that stretch of road. If our nation’s truck drivers are that illiterate, are we really ok with trusting them to transport goods? What we need is a metal sign strung across the road at the same height as the bridge, which reads, “If you hit this sign, you will hit that bridge.” Image: syracuse.com JKR doubles down on being a terrible human being with the release of this new game. Not content to just be a TERF, she leans even further into anti-Semitism…
