And Rightly So!

An ultimate frisbee team in Staffordshire, UK is told to change their name, because it might (gasp!) offend someone.
An elderly blind woman faces a lein on her property, for an unpaid utility bill - of one cent. Do you think that someone in the city government might realize that going after their one cent [...]

Last month was reported to be the warmest October ever recorded, according to Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Dr. James Hansen, an intellectual ally of former Vice President Al Gore. This anouncement came as a surprise, because:
Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures [...]

I wonder whose shadow this is, lurking behind our current and future presidents. Somehow, I think it would be wise not to get this close to either of them, unless you wish to make the acquaintance of a few Secret Service agents.

H/T to Willisms, who have made this pic the subject of their weekly [...]

In 2006, New York Daily News reporter Ben Smith interviewed Congressman Rahm Emanuel about his book The Plan, co-written with Bruce Reed. Emanuel is currently expected to be chief of staff for the Obama White House.

Break out the capes and cowls, buckle your utility belts, and fire up the Batmobile! Warner Brothers, maker of the recent series of Batman movies, is being sued by a city in Turkey named Batman.
The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing [...]

The One talks with the president of Poland, but whether he supports defensive missiles being in Poland is unclear. Coś zgubione w tłumaczeniu, być może? (Something lost in translation, maybe?) If we need to learn some French other than “merci beaucoup”, as Barry has previously suggested, then perhaps we should also learn [...]

Now that election is over with, Teh One and his webmasters have created a new website that explains what changes he wishes to bring about. It’s called, as you might expect, Change.gov. It is a study on how pretty words can convey some unpleasant realities. On this page, we see his intention to expand our [...]