Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

The modern craze with zombie stories, first begun by George Romero’s seminal work Night of the Living Dead in 1968, has even gotten into the brains of academic researchers from Canada, who decided to use the undead for a mathematical modeling exer...   read more

It used to be the only “emergency” declared by the U.S. Forest Service involved cutting down trees to avoid a potential forest fire. Now, government foresters can claim a section of forest needs to be chopped down to avoid “imminent economic loss,...   read more

Citizens in Azerbaijan who voted in the Eurovision Song Contest (Europe’s version of American Idol, only much bigger and much older) for an act from Armenia found themselves being interrogated by Azerbaijan’s police for being disloyal. Approximate...   read more

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s determination to win re-election this week has included not only pushing a controversial law to appeal to Shia male voters, but also bringing back a former warlord accused of massacring thousands of Taliban for...   read more

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent arming, supplying and beefing up the U.S. military to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and yet the Obama administration feels the need to divert money from “lower-priority” operations to tempo...   read more

America’s currency has a coke problem. A sampling of U.S. paper money from across the country revealed 90% contained trace amounts of cocaine, presumably from users’ habit of rolling up greenbacks to snort the drug.   Researchers from the Univer...   read more

Christopher R. Hill, President Barack Obama’s choice for ambassador to Iraq, is a career diplomat who was Washington’s top nuclear negotiator with North Korea. He speaks three languages—Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian—but not Arabic, which i...   read more

While U.S. imports have almost doubled since the late 1990s, inspections by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) at America’s ports have declined, and quite steeply in recent years. In 1999, the CPSC gathered 1,348 product samples at port...   read more

Government leaders in Mexico moved to combat corruption and curb trafficking over the weekend by dumping all 700 of its customs inspectors and replacing them with newly-trained agents. The decision, which also doubled the number of customs agents ...   read more

Even during the Roaring Twenties America’s wealthy didn’t control as much of the nation’s income as they do today. According to a new study by University of California, Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez, the richest 10% of Americans received half o...   read more

Despite fears of the government overspending on programs to right the nation’s economy, the vast majority of Americans believe Social Security needs to be maintained and are willing to pay higher taxes to do so. Nearly 90% say Social Security is m...   read more

After a year of unrelenting negative economic indicators, the lack of growth in one leading statistic is actually cause for good news. According to the Labor Department, inflation is essentially non-existent, based on the fact consumer prices were...   read more

Six years ago, before he arrived in Washington, DC, Barack Obama was an outspoken proponent of creating a single-payer system for delivering health care in the United States. At an AFL-CIO conference, Obama told an audience of labor supporters: ...   read more

Defense contractor DynCorp has been accused of numerous questionable business practices that could wind up costing the U.S. government hundreds of millions of dollars. Two of the controversies have involved the company’s Global Linguist Solutions ...   read more

United States policy toward the troubled and perilous region of East Asia–home of volatile conflicts between North and South Korea, China and Taiwan, and the military junta of Burma and its own people–is now the province of a highly esteemed acade...   read more

Needing the political support of Shia men in next week’s election, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai approved a law earlier this year that not only doesn’t exactly legalize marital rape, but does allow husbands to withhold food from wives who r...   read more