Tag Archives: WTF

Seriously. It’s $14.99. Move over Big Mouth Billy Bass.

Selma, Alabama plans to erect a memorial to the first leader of Ku Klux Klan. The statue of Confederate General Nathan Forrest — infamous as the first Grand WIzard of the Klan and for massacring black Union soldiers at the Civil War battle of Fort Pillow — even has the blessing of the Selma City Council. Selma is home to …

A mobile DNA and paternity testing truck emblazoned with the slogan, “Who’s Your Daddy?” is working the streets of New York City. The “Who’s Your Daddy” recreational vehicle is selling DNA tests, mostly to fathers who suspect their children may not actually be theirs. “They flag us down, they pull us over, they talk to us,” owner and operator Jared …

Auto-correct? Insanity?

And how many of them are voting for Romney?

Herman Cain has launched a new website and The Guardian is alternately baffled and amused: Perhaps you’ve heard the news that failed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has launched his own online television channel, or “website”, at CainTV.com? This is the most absurd thing to happen in the world of launching your own things since British member of Parliament Louise …

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Gothamist has the story: The world record in human tower building was SHATTERED yesterday when a team of brawny Catalonian tower builders climbed on top of each other at the rooftop lounge at 230 Fifth. Human tower building, it seems, is a time-honored tradition in the Catalonian region, where people have built multi-story human towers called “castells” for over three …

I get some interesting press releases, that’s for sure. Since 1995, we are proposing that the most and 100% effective HIV vaccine is in the Cockroaches. Approaches and solutions: Cockroaches are the oldest living and most powerful on earth. This is estimated to be 350 to 400 million years. They have survived major disasters, weather phenomena and the atomic bombs. …

Filed under: WTF. But also: lovely. Nudity ahead…UPDATE: I didn’t even recognize him, but Gawker notes that that’s Shia LaBeouf going full-frontal in the clip. The band’s latest “Mystery Film Experiment” finds LaBeouf’s “victory rose” in full bloom at the 42-second mark (and again at the 48-second mark), followed by a bunch of other freaky artsy-type things like “an underwater …

Back in 2007.

If you’ve got any acid lying around, drop it now.

Santorum has locked up the highly-coveted death metal demographic.

GOProud is disappointed with Romney because today he denounced gay marriage to loud cheers at CPAC. But they also support Romney, who has signed the NOM hate pledge to pursue a federal constitutional ban on gay marriage. Schrodinger’s Cat has got nothing on GOProud. UPDATE: Here’s the video.

Often I do not understand the metaphors of modern film making. This may be one of those times.(Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

Yet another bizarre clip from Herman Cain. This was posted to YouTube in late August, but is getting passed around again in the wake of this week’s strange smoking ad.

“I will tell you my favorite food of all time is celery. Honest to God my favorite food is celery. Straight up celery. I will personally consume the entire stalk of celery. At the Thanksgiving table I have the plate of celery in front of me.” – Michele Bachmann, via Andrew Sullivan.