Was Jesus a hamster?

Still having problems figuring out why the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is two weeks, not nine months, before Christmas.

Hungry vultures

A ministry official tells me that is not done to leave Big Macs out for hungry vultures and other carcass-clearers, now under threat as a result of EU rules (see Nick Lloyd’s piece). Wild boar are said to be very fond of the odd burger, and London foxes and Delft herons have been living on…

More virgins

My Virgin‘s not special at all. Someone just sent me this eBay story about Jesus’ mum and the cheese sandwich.

Wikipedia: Arabic vs Klingon

“the number of interested people in having an Open Content Arabic Encyclopedia doesn’t reflect the number of Arabic people over the Internet”

Chickpoint

I always liked the bit in Qathafi’s Green Book where it says, “It is an undisputed fact that both man and woman are human beings.” This photo over at Ammar Ibrahim’s suggests that the latter may be only partially acknowledged in Syria – or it may just be their spelling. “Hier is the factory” is…

Exclusive Tunisian tornado pics

Karim’s got photos, more photos, even more photos and video of the Tunisian tornado and storms 10 days ago. I challenge you to find that on Google News.

Revenge of the Spanglish

“We put with the low ones when to a leƱero and small player of stature we called dwarf to him. And with that they have the great ears when a soccer player of ample earpieces puts a goal to us and we called orejudos to them. ” More here.