North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has launched a new video featuring him overseeing the launch of his nation’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – thus proving Vladimir Putin is not the Eastern Hemisphere’s only raving lunatic.
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Sea of Lego
The world’s sea creatures have enough to worry about with human overpopulation and the accompanying pollution. But, for a quarter century now, they’ve had to contend with a miniscule plague known as Legos.
On February 13, 1997, a rogue wave ambushed a cargo ship known as Tokio Express and caused millions of the demonic toy pieces to plunge into the water. Out of the 4,756,940 Lego pieces on board, about 3,178,807 were light enough to float and have been polluting beaches across the North Atlantic – mostly around Great Britain – ever since. Ironically many of the pieces were nautical-themed, but that’s of no comfort to aquatic wildlife that have occasionally ingested the items.
While people have been collecting many of the Legos that wash up onto shorelines, scientists have used the calamity to study the impact plastic has on the world’s oceans.
Plastic can take years – perhaps centuries – to degrade in water, and releases a variety of chemicals as it deteriorates; chemicals that can disrupt oceanic ecosystems by disrupting the reproductive systems of some animals.
A 2020 study by Environmental Pollution found that, upon analyzing the structure of Legos with X-ray fluorescence, it could take up to 1,300 years for all of the pieces to degrade completely.
If there’s any proof that human birth control on a wide scale is necessary, this is it!
Top image: A.J.B. Lane
Bottom image: BBC News
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When Macron Met Putin
Fences supposedly make good neighbors, but how about tables?
When French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Moscow last week to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin about the burgeoning Ukraine crisis, neither man probably realized some observers just wouldn’t take them seriously. Putin seems intent on invading Ukraine, during the Winter Olympics in Beijing and despite strong global opposition and threats of sanctions from the developed world.
But amidst the tension, one thing about the meeting stuck out: the table. Macron and Putin sat at opposite ends of a gargantuan white table, as COVID protocols still deem such ambits necessary. It almost goes without saying the physical distance between the duo was analogous to their ideological differences.
This photo is only one of the many derisive images about the conference. Personally, I found the small floral arrangement more intriguing than either leader.
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From the ‘Only in Texas’ Files – January 29, 2022
The Walmart store chain offers plenty of items for shoppers, but I don’t believe children are among them. After all, this isn’t Russia!
But Rebecca Lanette Taylor, a 49-year-old woman from Crockett, Texas, apparently thought otherwise. While standing in line at self-checkout lane at a Walmart in Crockett, Taylor allegedly offered another woman $500,000 in exchange for the latter’s child.
The Crockett Police Department indicated an officer was on patrol on January 13 when she received a phone call from the mother of the child, saying “a White woman with blonde hair approached her in the Crockett Walmart, wanting to purchase her son”.
According to an arrest affidavit, the mother had a baby in a car seat in the shopping cart, along with her 1-year-old. Officials state Taylor “began commenting on her son’s blonde hair and blue eyes.” She then asked how much she could pay for him. The mom tried to laugh off the comment, thinking Taylor was joking. However, Taylor told her that she had $250,000 in the car and would give that much for the baby.
The mother refused and left the store. But Taylor supposedly followed her out to her car and asked again to buy the younger baby, adding she “been wanting to buy a child for a long time.”
The affidavit also declares that Taylor then “began screaming at the mom, saying if she wouldn’t take $250,000 for him, then she would give her $500,000 because she wanted him and she was going to take him.”
The mother got into her vehicle and locked the doors. The children were safely inside with her. Taylor left the scene shortly after, but surveillance footage caught the incident on camera and a warrant was issued for Taylor’s arrest. She is currently being held at the Houston County Jail on a $50,000 bond.
I think the bond should be set much higher…say, $500,000. But that’s just a personal thought.
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From the ‘Only in Texas’ Files – January 15, 2022
Hey, did you hear the story about the teacher who dumped her sick kid into the trunk of her car so she wouldn’t get infected?
This is true! And it could only happen in Texas! Sandra Beam is facing child endangerment charges for placing her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car, after he tested positive for COVID-19. Her reasoning? She didn’t want to get infected herself!
Her decision prompted her suspension from the Cypress-Fairbanks school district and a felony charge of child endangerment. She was jailed, but managed to post a USD 1,500 bond. As of now, it’s not known whether or not she has an attorney.
The 41-year-old teacher is highly-regarded among her peers and has received a slew of support from the community where she has been described as kind and genuine. Think about it though: the witch placed her own son into the trunk of her car so she wouldn’t get sick.
Here’s a bright idea: WHERE A MASK!
Here’s another bright idea: as punishment, dump home-girl into the trunk of that same car with a bottle of water and a cell phone and park it by a sewage plant for 12 hours.
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From the ‘Creepy as Shit Files – January 15, 2022
Actress Megan Fox, best known for her roles in the Transformers franchise, and rap singer Machine Gun Kelly (Colson Baker) recently announced on their respective Instagram accounts that, after more than a year of dating, they are engaged.
“In July of 2020 we sat under this banyan tree,” Fox wrote in the caption of her post. “We asked for magic. We were oblivious to the pain we would face together in such a short, frenetic period of time. Unaware of the work and sacrifices the relationship would require from us but intoxicated off of the love. And the karma.”
It gets better – or worse, depending on your age category and romantic predilections.
Fox continued: “And just as in every lifetime before this one, and as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes…and then we drank each other’s blood.”
Call me old-fashioned, but what happened to engagement rings? Blood?! I would have preferred a shot of tequila and a hand job – not necessarily in that order. But again, I’m old school when it comes to love and romance.
And I feel so sad for that banyan tree; having to witness that kind of psychosis on full display. Let us hope and pray it can get the proper therapy and go on to lead a happy arboreal life.
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Creepy Christmas Photos 2021
Silent night,
Holy night,
All is…CREEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again, my lovely readers, the yuletide season is upon us, and while most intact families celebrate the wholesomeness of the holidays, we must understand that some people just don’t fully comprehend what it’s supposed to mean.
Herein lies a batch of odd Christmas photos where the subjects just couldn’t get into the spirit or hope their placement on a sex offender’s registry would go unnoticed.
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Valley of the Creepy Dolls
Aficionados of the campy 1968 sci-fi movie “Barbarella” – including The Chief – remember the scene where the title character is ambushed by a gallery of biting dolls. The “Chucky” movie series only solidified that dolls can be creepier than clowns. Coulrophobes might disagree, but people with serious mental anomalies can’t always be trusted. Including The Chief. And I’m one of the most disturbed people I’ve ever met!
The good folks in Olmsted County, Minnesota can surely identify. Since 2019, History Center of Olmsted County has staged a ‘Creepy Doll Contest’ that helps troubled souls encapsulate their worst nightmares. Looking at the critters from this year’s collection makes us wonder what sick fool thought dolls would be great as children’s toys.
But then again…maybe they weren’t so foolish.
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Windy with a Chance of Erections
You never know what you’ll get with email, text or any other sundry cyber forms of communications. Proof: the above email from a local weather service.
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Objects on Zoom Are Closer than You Expect
Either COVID-19 quarantines have turned people’s minds into mush or we need to start classes on the art of Zoom. A Canadian politician, William Amos, gave his Zoom audience more than they expected (or wanted) when he inadvertently appeared butt naked on camera. What makes this incident truly disturbing is that he was in his office. I think most of us could understand if this had happened at home, but at work? He has since apologized.
In some ways, I can empathize with Amos. Work-related stress used to compel me to engage in somewhat dubious antics. I just never had a laptop camera to assist me! But I often had Polaroids and would share them later.
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Chief Writing Wolf 