Website Bloggerheads has successfully tracked down the large bewildered man with mustard on him whose picture has become popular on Fark.com and other internet sites. He is actually Mike “Nug” Nahrgang, an actor/comedian from Toronto, Canada. The photo of him spilling mustard all over himself was taken for a Canadian sketch comedy show.
A Vietnam veteran walked onto a collge basketball court and held a flag in front of a a girl on the team who turned her back on the US flag during the pregame national anthem. The veteran was ejected from the game. The girl’s anti-American protests have drawn national attention to Manhattanville, the small liberal arts school in she attends in Purchase, New York.
Comparing chickens slaughtered at factory farms to the Jews annihilated in Nazi death camps, the animal-rights group PETA has launched a campaign called “Holocaust on Your Plate” to promote the vegetarian diet.
British dentists have been warned that they face criminal prosecution under EU law if they use teeth-whitening treatments on their patients. Dentists face six months in jail or a £5,000 ($7,900 US) fine if they offer the treatment because it violates EU rules governing the supply of hydrogen peroxide bleach.
Six Palestinians militants who died in an explosion last week were the victims of a bomb concealed inside a toy airplane, passed to them by an undercover Israeli agent. The men had planned to pack the airplane and fly it into a group of Isreali soldiers but the agent had already equipped it with explosives which were detonated by remote control.
The first Western human shields will be positioned around Iraq today as dissent among them grows about the nature of the targets they are being asked to protect which include locations near army bases. One elderly volunteer begged the RAF not to kill him.
Two endangered pandas at the National Zoo died after eating toxic gas-producing pellets that were left on the ground during an attempt to kill rats.
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