Archive for April, 2009
A whole bucket full of cute
Apr 25
Just look at this adorable little rascal with his tiny puppy paw stuck in the toilet paper roll and all.
AWESOME!
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Police in Australia have released a shocking x-ray that shows a man’s skull riddled with up to 30 large nails.
X-ray showing multiple nails embedded of the skull of 27-year-old Chen Liu. Photo: Reuters
X-ray showing multiple nails embedded of the skull of 27-year-old Chen Liu. Photo: Reuters
Police hope the graphic image of Chen Liu’s skull will help them track down his killer.
Detectives said the nails, which measure up to 85mm long, were fired into his head by a high-powered nailgun.
His decomposed body was found floating in the Georges River in southern Sydney in November. It had been bound with electrical wire and wrapped in a domestic rug.
Since then, the trail has gone cold and detectives released the x-ray as part of a fresh appeal for information.
Officers believe Mr Liu, 27, was shot and killed before being driven to the river in his own 4WD and dumped.
Detective Inspector Mark Newham told local media that post-mortem examination results had showed Mr Liu was shot repeatedly in the head up to 30 times with a high-powered nailgun.
“Similar types of nailguns can fire nails up to 85mm long,” Mr Newham said.
Detectives said the nailgun used in the murder was a standard cordless, framing, gas-charged gun, widely available for sale and hire.
Mr Liu was believed to be homosexual and lived with his partner in Rockdale. He was reported missing by a male friend two weeks before two children, aged 9 and 14, found his body while on a canoeing trip. He emigrated to Australia from China in 2000.
Mia who?
Apr 21
Mia Farrow to Stop Eating, But for Darfur This Time
Next week, it appears, actress Mia Farrow will be going on a hunger strike in favor of, or against (I’m not totally sure), things that are, or are not happening in the Darfur region in Sudan…
On April 27th I will begin a fast of water only in solidarity with the people of Darfur and as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, women and children needlessly die of starvation, thirst and disease.
She dropped this bombshell on the media two days ago, in a blog post on the Huffington Post, and given the fact that you’re probably just hearing about it now, that’s probably some indication of how successful her protest will be.
I don’t mean to be an asshole — it kinda just comes naturally to me — and I’m all in favor of people helping people, but, come on, how much clout does Mia Farrow think she has these days? What makes her think that anybody is gonna give any more of a shit about her dying of starvation than some other person, in Africa, whose acting career is in about the same shape?
And what happens when nothing changes in Darfur in the next week or so, just like nothing’s changed in Darfur for the past several years? How exactly do you dial back a hunger strike that’s completely ineffective and un-cared-about?
Well, I guess you just order a bagel.
