Worst Case Scenarios : Zombie Outbreak

Halloween is on it’s way. Shops are stocking a huge variety of spooky shortbreads and sinister sweeties. The first jack ‘o’ lanterns are starting to appear in windows and doorways.
Posters advertising Halloween parties and club nights have been plastered around towns for weeks now, but what if on this night of ghoulish fun, the unthinkable [...]

Worst Case Scenarios : Zombie Outbreak

Halloween is on it’s way. Shops are stocking a huge variety of spooky shortbreads and sinister sweeties. The first jack ‘o’ lanterns are starting to appear in windows and doorways.
Posters advertising Halloween parties and club nights have been plastered around towns for weeks now, but what if on this night of ghoulish fun, the unthinkable [...]

Is The Fox Still Guarding The Hen House?

In 1905 football was almost banned from college campuses because of being too dangerous. Since then innovations in helmets and pads have made football safer - except from heat and humidity. According to Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn Sate, playing in a typical uniform is like playing in a three-piece suit. [...]

A Look at Some Funny Halloween Pranks

Halloween is a great time of the year when families and friends get together, everyone is happy. But Halloween is not only for treats, there are a variety of tricks that can be performed on the day. Although nowadays a lot of people do harmful and terrible tricks such as throwing eggs, this is very [...]

Isn’t It Time To Teach Parenting?

Although parenting doesn’t stop when a mother goes to prison, the Ohio Reformatory for Women is one of very few prisons that addresses this problem. It has a program for non-violent, short-term offenders, who are pregnant or have infants. These mothers live in a special wing of the prison, where they’re able to have their [...]

Chuck Norris Runs Out Of Weapons

As of late there have been reports circulating the underground press that Chuck Norris is running out of dining chairs. Could it be that as the third weapon of choice (the first being his roundhouse kicks and the second being his fist) there’s actually a shortage of dining chairs in the furniture market?
Word on the [...]

Who’s Minding The … Environment?

The Amazon is being deforested three times faster in 2008 than in 2007. Brazil’s Environmental Minister attributes this to Amazon-region mayors ignoring illegal logging to get votes. Greenpeace attributes this to soy farmers and cattle ranchers clearing more land to profit from the rise in food prices. Although satellite imagery showed that 292 square miles [...]

An Amusing Look at an Afternoon of Complete Boredom

Sitting at my desk, and every time I look at the clock it seems to be the same time. Three hours until I go home, little bit of work, e-mail, still three hours to go home. Days like this can be very difficult to get through, much like eating a bucket of rancid fish heads [...]

Is There Enough Care In Health Care?

Because Anthrax is easily treated if caught early, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to use volunteer, government mail carriers to deliver emergency antibiotics to areas affected by anthrax attack. According to the plan, mail carriers will have advance supplies of antibiotics to protect themselves and their families; and they’ll be escorted [...]

An Amusing Look at the Premiership Season Ahead

This article takes a look at the likely outcome of the end of this Premiership season. Please note that as the season has not been played out it is impossible to accurately predict the outcome. None of the events that are mentioned in this article have actually happened yet and it could be argued that [...]