Researchers have identified a virus that makes people stupid. Er. Snow in Minneapolis is already screwing up the morning commute and canceling flights.Most kids don’t even have a TV anymore. I broke the lid to our crock pot last night. It smashed in pieces all over the floor like a windshield.Here’s more support for the theory the Vincent Van Gogh was murdered.There are lots of dumb ways to die.Here’s a lovely chart of Common MythConceptions supporting my claim that a 19th-century production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle is responsible for the idea that vikings wore horned helmets.A woman was dead for 45 minutes, then revived without brain damage.Iraqi officials claim the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike.The internet has a new mug shot handsome guy.AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd parties like a rock star and prostitution is legal in New Zealand.Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan flipped out and attacked people on an airplane like a zoh-hom-beh.A cold front is going to hit New Mexico tonight.A man threatening to jump off the San Mateo overpass shut down I-40 yesterday. I got stuck in it and saw him—he was on the lowest ledge, which didn’t seem all that high.Right before that, I got stuck in traffic created by a standoff with an armed suspect at the Luxury Inn on Central.Happy birthday, Neil Gaiman.(Special thanks for links from Sarah Bonneau, Susan Petersen and Stefanie Enochs.)
The Daily Word In A Virus That Makes You Dumb, Horned Helmets And Crock Pot Lids.
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