LIVING SMALL Apartment buyers in ridiculously expensive Hong Kong are now eagerly paying up to the equivalent of $500,000 (U.S.) for units not much bigger than a U.S. parking space (and typically physically self-measured by the applicant’s wing-span). An agent told The Wall Street Journal in June that, for example, standard furniture does not fit the units and that having … [Read more...] about NOTW: Tiny apartments, sonogram DVDs and suicide bomber discrimination
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NOTW: Suing yourself, atomic toys and KKK baseball
NEWEST RIGHT The Utah Court of Appeals ruled in February that Barbara Bagley has a legal right to sue herself for her own negligent driving that caused the death of her husband. Typically, in U.S. courts, a party cannot profit from its own negligence, but Bagley is the official "representative" administering her husband's estate and has a duty to claim debts owed to … [Read more...] about NOTW: Suing yourself, atomic toys and KKK baseball
NOTW: Goldfish Surgery, Kitchen Toilets and Pornographic Kayaks
MAN’S OTHER BEST FRIEND People’s love for their pets reached a new high in December when a British man paid a veterinarian the equivalent of $500 to perform delicate surgery on a sick office goldfish (typical pet store “replacement” price: $1 to $5). Vet Faye Bethell of North Walsham, England, told the Eastern Daily Press in December that there was “nothing special” about the … [Read more...] about NOTW: Goldfish Surgery, Kitchen Toilets and Pornographic Kayaks
Hawaii Congressional Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Sponsors Bill To Arm Kurdish Peshmerga ‘Directly’
U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, opposed arming Syrian rebels in the war against the terrorist group ISIL (also known as ISIS or the Islamic State), but today she said she's sponsoring bi-partisan legislation to "directly arm" the Kurdish army–known as the Peshmerga–in Iraq. Here's how Gabbard put it in a Nov. 20 news release from her office: "The Kurdish … [Read more...] about Hawaii Congressional Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Sponsors Bill To Arm Kurdish Peshmerga ‘Directly’
Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Wants To ‘Destroy’ ISIL, But Not By Arming Syrian Rebels
Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard, D–Hawaii, is walking a foreign policy tightrope in regards to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The congresswoman, who's also a captain in the Hawaii National Guard and a veteran of two combat tours in the Middle East, wants very much for the U.S. to "destroy" ISIL (or as some call it, ISIS). This isn't a simple … [Read more...] about Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Wants To ‘Destroy’ ISIL, But Not By Arming Syrian Rebels