Watch this car chase video just released by the Weber County, Utah Sheriff’s Office.  I recommend skipping ahead to the 3:00 mark for the money shot. That's a 7-year old, all right.  He stole that car because he didn't want to go to church.  I can't say I

Head over to Elvis' blog to see pictures of Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, Cpl. Tyler Crooks, Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes before you watch the Fox News clip below.  Go ahead... I'll wait for ya. Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, Cpl. Tyler Crooks, Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer goes to print for the last time tomorrow morning. The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.The company, however, said it would maintain seattlepi.com, making it

I took an economics class in high school, but all I remember from that course is the relationship between supply and demand.  When it comes to personal finances, I let my wife handle it.  I have many passions, but the economy and money don't make the list. I do, however,

Steven Page is no longer a member of the Barenaked Ladies.  Along with Ed Robertson, Steven Page was a key voice in this band, which will go on recording without him.  He's the vocalist on "Brian Wilson" for goodness sake! From the official BNL site. A MESSAGE FROM BARENAKED LADIESBy

Yesterday's New York Post had a cartoon by Sean Delonas depicting the author of the stimulus bill as a chimp. There's an outcry today, from Rev. Al Sharpton and others.  Here's Sharpton's statement. The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of

I'm sure this is probably not a safe prank and we shouldn't be glorifying it, but what the heck... There have been a rash of pranks targeting electronic highway signs in America's Midwest recently. In Collinsville, Ill., east of St. Louis, hackers changed a sign on Interstate 225 Tuesday to

We already knew about the dog that got electrocuted to death at Keele and Annette Streets and other dogs that have been shocked by sidewalk handwells, but now this danger has entered the human world.  A child got shocked earlier today after stepping on a handwell at the corner of

As a kid, my favourite magazine was Mad Magazine.  Alfred E. Newman didn't worry about anything, but I'll bet he's worried now. Starting with April's issue #500, Mad Magazine is going quarterly.  Editor John Ficarra said in a statement, "The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every

I've always been careful not to run up the score and show up the opposition.  During the 2007 slo-pitch season, I wrote about the night we beat up on a weaker opponent, and I wasn't proud.  In hind-sight, we played a jerk game and should have eased off the accelerator

The 16-year old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Jett Travolta, died today in the Bahamas.  According to sources, Jett suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. A few years ago, Hollywood, Interrupted published a plea from

Here's a good article from the New Yorker on why newspapers are hurting.  Here's a paragraph that makes a nice follow-up to my recent Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy entry. The peculiar fact about the current crisis is that even as big papers have become less profitable they’ve arguably become

Not to make light of the shoe attack on Dubya yesterday, but you can't watch this... Without following it up with this... Austin Powers: That really hurt! I'm gonna have a lump there, you idiot! Who throws a shoe? Honestly! You fight like a woman!

The Canadian Press is reporting that a likely meteor lit up the sky in Edmonton, Alberta last night.  Here's the very cool footage from a police cruiser's dashboard camera.

This planet we all share really isn't that big.  Like many of you, I tend to focus on North American news and events.  Sure, I read the international news from the BBC, but it's primarily headline reading unless it's a significant news event. I don't pretend to be an expert

Last week Oasis' Noel Gallagher was attacked here in Toronto and the other day Roger Ebert was attacked during the Toronto International Film Festival.  I'm just catching up on my TIFF news, so if this is old news I apologize. From what I read here, it was the press screening

Every day the list of recalled Maple Leaf products seems to grow.  I don't know about you, but I see a couple of items I've ingested over the past couple of weeks.  I'm still shocked at how many brand names fall under the Maple Leaf umbrella.  Schneiders? Shopsys?  Who knew?

We've all read the gory details about Tim McLean's senseless death on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba July 30.  Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, apparently beheaded and cannibalized Tim McLean.  In court yesterday, Li had one, simple request that will not be fulfilled.  "Please,

0.17% of visits to this site come from India.  Believe it or not, that puts India in 10th place.  Over the past month, these visits have come from 24 cities in India, and a city called Cochin leads the pack.  I happen to know those visits are by Roshan,

While I was unplugged, I had a dream...  Steven Page, Scarborough native and Barenaked Ladies founder, was arrested for snorting cocaine in his girlfriend's New York state apartment.  In true Canadian style, in my dream Steven Page was snorting the coke through a rolled up Canadian bill.  No greenbacks for

The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site uses auto-replace when running AP stories.  For example, they automatically replace the word "gay" with the word "homosexual". As you'll see below, that can produce unintentionally hilarious results.