Third day of unceasing explosions at a Russian arms depot.

Oft-quoted biblical passages that aren't biblical passages.

Being a prick is a non-stop global project for Donald Trump.

Stupid Sarah Palin stupidly defends her stupid telling of Paul Revere's ride.

Selling moon rocks at Denny's, "United States vs. One Moon Rock," and other amazing stories involving black-market moon rocks.

“It’s easy to forget that change starts with anger, and that history has always been made by badasses.” Slutwalks.

Yemen just fell out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Short article about why the Three Gorges Dam in China was built and how it has wreaked havoc in central China, where there is now a severe drought.

Ruin-Porn. With links to collections of all-Detroit ruin-porn.

Peter Fonda is teaching his grandchildren how to use rifles in a conflict with President Obama.

... But how can you despise a man who calmly downs a Guiness pint during his visit to Ireland?

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis says crime will increase if there’s no NFL season next year.

Look at these 25 really awesome photos from China.

The ASPCA is investigating this panhandling dog that has become a fixture at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.

Employees are forced to wear collars at this flea-infested casino in New Zealand.

The Supreme Court orders California to release nearly 46,000 prisoners to ease overcrowding.

New Rapture date! October 21st, 2011.

This first-person video of the Joplin, Mo. tornado is chilling.

That tornado is now recognized as the deadliest in the country since 1953 with the death toll at 117.

Russell Brand was kicked out of Japan.

All red light cameras have been turned off in Albuquerque after the city’s contract with Redflex ended.

There’s plenty more of this effing wind all week.

&#^&#%#^#*(! 47 percent of Facebook walls are covered in profanity.

• feel bad for the rapture people (miha) [ Tue May 24 2011 11:10 AM ]
  

Meet new Al Qaeda leader: Saif Al Adel.

Local 11-year-old is sexted by her teacher.

Worst? Allergy. Season. Ever.

85-year-old Jerry Lewis is retiring from the MDA telethon.

Watch Newt Gingrich get glitterbombed.

Gary Johnson is endorsed by pothead extraordinaire Willie Nelson.

RIP Baseball superstar Harmon Killebrew.

This is without a doubt the most important link you'll see all day. Someone is documenting episode by episode the best sweaters from The Cosby Show.

Cruise ship mutiny quashed with free booze.

What kind of Facebook poster are you?

Remember when Shaq Fu was the future of sports?

Watermelons are exploding in China.

Happy Birthday Perry Como!!!

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China, whose citizens account for one-third of smokers in the world, banned smoking in most public places. The law took effect yesterday, but most citizens and shopkeepers had not heard of it until then.

One problem with enforcing the new ban is smoking is an integral part of Chinese culture. Most business transactions finish with the exchange of expensive tobacco, many sunny afternoons are spent smoking on café patios, and giving someone a cigarette is viewed as a great way to break the ice.

Smoking is a characteristic of the famous and powerful. Chairman Mao, for example, was a heavy smoker, and Chinese celebrities and athletes are commonly seen smoking.

China is the world's largest producer of tobacco. Cigarette sales and production taxes totaled $75 billion in 2009. Some regions, like the Yunnan Province depend on the industry, with 45 percent of its revenue coming from tobacco.

There are 300 million people who smoke in China, and the habit causes about 1.2 million deaths each year. Studies show the Chinese have a low awareness of the health risks of smoking and secondhand smoke. About half of health care workers smoke.

• It's like Hu Jintao doesn't have an office in Beijing. (Madmammajamma) [ Mon May 2 2011 4:51 PM ]
  
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Osama bin Laden: He couldn't be killed by bunker busters(warning: propoganda footage,) he survived dialysis, but the West's boogeyman appears to have been killed outside his mansion near Islamabad? Watch President Obama's statement anywhere.

Royal Wedding-related Facebook censorship?

Documentary about the Screen Gems Logo, The S From Hell.

Vin Diesel instructional break dancing video.

Great old documentary about the Dust Bowl with oral histories recorded in 1960.

Hey John Bear, Oklahoma is now drier than it was during the Dust Bowl.

Scroll down after clicking this link to read about the other controversial shit the Superman character has pulled in his comic books.

"Someone will be crowned the Milwaukee Air-Sex Champion."

Obama actually displayed a sense of humor at the White House Correspondents Dinner. 'Course he has the best writers....

"Mr. Universe" incident.

There is NO WAY Chinese are going to stop smoking like diesels in public or anywhere else.

It was Willie Nelson's 78th Birthday yesterday. Ain't it Funny How Time Slips Away (who's the guy in the Nudie suit?)

• May Day (cliffdweller) [ Sun May 1 2011 3:01 PM ]
  

Another day, another fatal APD shooting.

Former Gov. Gary Johnson is expected to announce his presidential bid soon.

I bet you didn't know that President Obama had brain surgery.

Utah Republican's cut unemployment insurance to motivate people to get back to work.

More bodies found on Long Island beaches.

Mom drives car into river, killing herself and her three children.

Why Mitt Romney won't win.

School in Chicago bans homemade lunches.

Congress removes rocky mountain wolf from endangered species list.

The title of this video is: Fat Security Guard Goes Crazy On Skaters.

Have you heard this new Beastie Boy's song yet?

Navy successfully tests new death ray.

Record Store Day is this Saturday.

China bans time-travel.

How organic labels trick your brain.

Jerry Lawson, inventor of the video game cartridge died this weekend.

A complete guide to who's ruining remaking your favorite comedies.

How to avoid dancing with people.

Don't buy one of these infinite capacity hard drives.

Taco Bell is testing nacho-flavored Doritos as taco shells!

Pictures from last week's Monsterpalooza.

Denny's has the best pancakes … and fights.

Happy birthday Tony Dow!!!

The top ten cities in which to wait until the last minute before filing your tax return.

Another weird Kelly Family song with a video. Not about not pee-peeing the bed anymore.

New Mexico voter fraud by "foreign nationals" under investigation by the State Police.

Electronic books often come with DRM locks. Is "electronic book" an oxymoron?

Awesomely strange hair.

"Lovely, expensive and about nineteen:" Flapper Dictionary!

Details on the British submariner who shot a couple of his fellow submariners. Did he do it because visiting dignitaries were hogging the head?

In order to keep their economy moving, China just keeps on building. Whole cities. With barely any inhabitants. Strange video.

Yeah, you want elf ears!

Not everyone is still grumbling over the size of their paycheck. Warning: same old story.

Pakistani version of Sesame Street.

Russia: MOON BASE BY 2030!

Gil Robbins, folk musician, actor and father to Tim Robbins is dead.

Man set himself on fire in the Lowes on Paseo del Norte.

The most detailed health data by county ever compiled: here are Bernalillo’s stats.

How Europeans see themselves.

Rebels retreat. Uganda hearts Gadhafi.

No one lives in Chinese ghost cities.

BK nuggets dissected.

Sixty useless stock photos.

FLOTUS fashion.

Gold mine of cosmic disco and late ‘70s electronic avant garde.

Happy birthday, Astrud Gilberto!

Here’s a handy guide to Middle East protests.

Will Zimbabwe sell uranium to Iran?

Bob Dylan's Free Wheelin' girlfriend died.

Whippersnappers say no to the new sexiness.

In other news, a 23-year-old grandma looks like a grandma.

A bad lady was a mean to dogs.

Watch Thom Yorke kill Justin Bieber.

Alibi's Ben Radford reports on North American Lake Monsters.

Blair River, spokesperson for the Heart Attack Grill, died of pneumonia.

Banksy bailed out some artistic Russian hooligans.

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it. NASA found fossilized bacteria on a meteorite.

Quick. Somebody buy me a Dune coloring book.

I love e-books. Andy Rooney hates e-books.

China wins top honors in 700-year-old Chinese mummy preservation.

On the other hand, China's mega-mall is kind of like downtown Albuquerque.

National Geographic built the house from Up!

I don’t remember any of these weird wrestlers.

Godfather's Pizza guy for president.

Listen to the new smooth jazz Metallica.

My new burial plans involve being shattered like a frozen liquid Terminator.

Kidnappers cut off Samantha Hernandez’ finger.

Heather Wilson is probably going to run for Senate.

The arts board wants to protect Albuquerque’s Ghost Bikes.

Read more Albuquerque stories from Adelita over at DCF.

Happy birthay Bryan Cranston.

Thanks to Tom Nayder, Robert Masterson and Geoffrey Anjou for some of today’s fine news stories.

Remember that TSA trial in Albuquerque I was talking about? After much delay, it’s happening today.

130 arrested from seven mob families in a mafia crackdown.

This guy’s trying to learn how to speak prairie dog.

How about an extra year to decide about college without losing your lotto scholarship?

Only 70 percent of the population can see 3D movies.

What was served at the “quintessentially American” dinner honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao?

National Republicans may be considering Gov. Martinez for bigger things.

UNM Regent Jack Fortner is sure the governor will reappoint him. Did the $40,000 he donated to her campaign help?

Michelle Obama teams up with Wal-Mart on her healthy food campaign.

A hotel made of garbage! What will the Spanish think of next?

The ladies of death row. (Not the record label.) Wait, why is this a story?

• Who let the riff raff in? (sloppy) [ Thu Jan 20 2011 11:46 AM ]
  

Not everyone loves a good Hitler joke.

Tunisian revolution changed slogan overnight from "Ben Ali OUT!" to "Ghannouchi OUT!"

China introduces measures to counter inflation, for the fourth time in two months.

Cowabunga! Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated for throwing bunga bunga parties featuring underage girls/prostitutes. This gets complicated as Italian age of consent is 14. Legal age for a prostitute, however, is 18.

Michael Steele is no longer Chairman of Republican National Committee.

Paranoid former Los Alamos National Labs scientist arrested after stand-off with police -which, in a twist of irony, he apparently wasn't aware of.

This is what Sarah Palin's Blood Libel speech sounds like in her native planet's tongue.

Fast sinking boat, tranquilized newscast, Prisoner: Cell Block H. Bisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Janet Napolitano has killed the U.S.-Mexico virtual border fence.

What would you do before running amok? Jared Loughner took photos of himself wearing only a thong and a Glock, and had them printed at Walmart.
Here's the newly released video from Loughner's MySpace page.

Excellent classic BBC documentary on L.S.D.

Speaking of L.S.D. check out The Pretty Things.

National Film Board of Canada has an online database. Start with The Mad Canadian. Then you're going to want to watch either Devil at Your Heels or Project Grizzly.

On this day in 1965 The Who's Can't Explain came out. Shindig!

In light of the Christmas spirit, the Smithsonian displays, among other things, an ant-covered Jesus.

You can no longer sit or lie on sidewalks in San Francisco.

An innocent snowball fight turns into a 500 person brawl in Germany.

China and North Korea are having a lover’s quarrel, according to the controversial WikiLeaks docs.

8 million people have stopped using their credit cards over the past year.

News Corp doesn’t know what the hell to do with struggling MySpace.

A casting agent for The Hobbit is fired for only looking at prospects with “light skin tones.”

A robber in Deming gets foiled when a package of empanadas is thrown at his head.

The new Ford Focus uses recycled jeans in its sound-deadening and carpet backing.

Fiji Water is no longer from Fiji.

This man, arrested 127 times, claims he is a victim of Albuquerque police.

Water main break in the Heights last night.

For 18 minutes this April, China hijacked the internet.

Germany warns of terrorist attack.

Better stock up on your 4Loco before it's banned in New Mexico.

Amazing collection of animated gifs you won't find on 4chan.

Gizmodo obtains 100 leaked body scans.

I'm not sure what to think of this weird ring ufo.

Artifacts from King Richard II's tomb rediscovered.

The best moments from Sarah Palin's Alaska.

Only eight days until Thanksgiving.

Worlds biggest dork loser psycho Harry Potter fan.

Los Cuates is going to open a restaurant at the Sunport.

Paleontologists in Pittsburgh reveal the worlds largest lungfish.

What's the best cooking oil to use?

Hey nerds! Here's the trailer for the Green Lantern movie.

Two weeks after I buy this personal pie maker I will be dead.

Modern canning was invented 261 years ago today.

Bill Nye The Science Guy collapses during speech.

Bookmark this page for when McDonald's stops making the McRib.

Happy birthday Rock Hudson!

• Caffeine?! (sloppy) [ Wed Nov 17 2010 1:47 PM ]