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Category Archives: Strange News
May 22, 2013
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Hospitals Ask Patients for a Blank Check
Miami’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center has just promised to publicly release the rates at which insurance companies reimburse the hospital for treatments. In any other industry, it would be routine for a vendor to disclose prices to customers. But the regular rules … Continue reading
May 18, 2013
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DC’s PC Commissars Lose Touch With Common Sense
Asking a fellow student on a date may now get you kicked off a college campus. Following a year long investigation into the University of Montana’s handling of several sexual assault cases, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the … Continue reading
May 13, 2013
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UN to the Hungry Masses: Let Them Eat Bugs
Slimy, yet satisfying. Ban Ki-Moon is doing his best Marie Antoinette impression, telling the world’s hungry to eat bugs. The AP reports: A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the U.N. agency’s Rome headquarters, says 2 billion people … Continue reading
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No Background Checks in California…for Substance Abuse Counselors
If you’re currently an alcoholic, drug addict, or sex offender in California, don’t worry. There is one job you still check out for: drug and alcohol counselor. The Sacramento Bee reports on the results of a California State Senate investigation: The … Continue reading
May 11, 2013
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Springtime for Hitler… In Dusseldorf? With Wagner?
Last Saturday the Düsseldorf opera house opened a new version of Tannhäuser. But this wasn’t any old version of the classic Wagner opera: the director transposed its setting from the Middle Ages to 1940s Germany. The Nazi-themed version, according to The Guardian, contained … Continue reading
May 2, 2013
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No, You Can’t Hail Cabs. But, Here, Have Some Contraception!
We commented before on Uber, the app that lets users quickly and easily hail cabs. After almost a year of delay, the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission finally agreed on Tuesday to start a pilot program for the app. Now the NYT reports that, … Continue reading
April 30, 2013
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Iranian Cleric Exposes Global Jewish Sorcery
Clever Iranian sleuths have cracked the secret ingredient of the Jewish plan for world domination: sorcery. Mehdi Taeb, a well-known cleric and close confidante of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, disclosed to a group of students recently that “the Jews” … Continue reading
April 25, 2013
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Ron Paul Sabotages Son’s Race with Fringe Advisory Board
The biggest question mark over Ron Paul has always been his affinity for unsavory wack jobs on the fringes of American politics, but these days he’s turning that question mark into an exclamation point. The Daily Beast reports that the … Continue reading
April 19, 2013
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Hopefully They Would Have Been Beliebers
The people of Oman were nearly the latest victims of the wave of unacceptable sexiness sweeping the Middle East. After the Saudi religious police swiftly deported three dangerously handsome Emirati men, Oman made equally quick work of Justin Bieber: The raucous teen, … Continue reading
April 17, 2013
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Too Sexy for Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia faced a near catastrophe this week when three Emirati men clearly too handsome to appear in public attended an annual cultural festival. Thankfully, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice was … Continue reading
April 9, 2013
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Who Do Voodoo? Indonesians, Apparently
Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim majority, but the country is also home to black magic and a community of people willing to pay warlocks and witches gobs of money to hex their enemies. Somehow, this belief in the occult … Continue reading
April 1, 2013
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Saudi Women (Sort Of) Free to Ride
A Saudi newspaper reported this morning that women will now be allowed to ride motorbikes and bicycles—well, sort of. The Times of Israel has the scoop: The Al-Yawm daily cited an unnamed official from the powerful religious police as saying … Continue reading
March 26, 2013
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Prominent Jew Banned from Libya He Helped Make
One of the most outspoken advocates for the Western effort to rid Libya of the Great Loon is now barred from entering the country…because he is a Jew. The Independent reports (h/t National Review): [French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri] Lévy was a vocal … Continue reading
March 23, 2013
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Montana Set To Legalize Roadkill Salvage As Nanny Staters Fret
The Nanny Staters are at it again, and this time they want to stop honest Americans who only want to enjoy some good roadkill. The Christian Science Monitor has a fun little article on the subject occasioned by Montana’s move to make … Continue reading
March 8, 2013
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Pension Officials to Gather at Luxury Island Resort
Here’s a thought experiment: if you were convening a national conference of public pension officials to discuss the country’s $766 billion unfunded liability (some have it as high as $2.2 trillion), where would you hold it? Providence, RI? San Bernardino, … Continue reading
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