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Category Archives for: Diversions

How to come back from the dead

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (BBC News) In 2002, Pennsylvania accounts clerk Brenda Heist set dinner out to defrost, folded some laundry, and took her daughter and son, eight and 12, to school. more…

D'oh! 'Pirate' gals meet real Somali hostage

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (London Guardian) Women's Institute members wore joke eye patches, wigs and wooden legs to greet an old sea dog giving a talk on pirates. They thought Colin Darch, more…

Bystanders record video during dog attack

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (Herald Sun) A man mauled by a pack of savage dogs has lashed out at passers-by who filmed the attack rather than help him. Four American Staffordshire terriers more…

Dinner conversation

by -NO AUTHOR- -- Editor's note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings more…

Chuck Norris goes toe-to-toe with caffeine

by Chuck Norris -- Chuck, everywhere I turn, there are caffeinated drinks and foods. I heard on the news that the Food and Drug Administration is looking into caffeine's effects on children's more…

Feds reinstate 'duck stamp' crown to 6-year-old

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (WASHINGTON TIMES) The federal government late Thursday reinstated the 6-year-old winner of this year’s Junior Duck Stamp, after earlier accusing her of plagiarism and rescinding her award. In a statement issued more…

'Kids are gonna have guns anyway'

by Kathy Shaidle -- Rush Limbaugh This week, Rush Limbaugh turned a favorite liberal argument about sex education on its head (FREE audio). "Let's use the same parallels that the left tells more…

'Messiah of sex' John Williamson dies at 80

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (AP) John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has more…