“I saw Washington Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth last night. It was interesting, to say the least. Their concept was to do the entire show in the nude. All nude, the entire time. I have to say. . .the guy playing MacBeth. . .good looking man with a very nice penis, however, whenever he spoke, his right testicle would rise up, and when he stopped talking, it would drop. . making his whole package giggle. It was SO distracting. I couldn’t pay attention to anything else!

Also, as you can imagine in a space with little to no A/C, by the start of Act 2, a general locker room odor was permiating throughout, granted I was in the second row. . .One of the men, REALLY needs to trim as it appeared he did not have a penis at all. I really felt bad for him. And finally, one of the young skinny boys went half mast during one of the scenes, making it all worth it.
http://societymax69.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-saw-washington-shakespeare-companys.html

“What the candidates say is important, but body language can also make an important impression on voters.
A body language expert, Jo Ellan Dimitrius, studied all of the candidates throughout the two-hour debate and decided that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York, won the battle of the body language. Sen. Clinton stood confidently behind the podium and kept her hands on top of the lectern, rather than nervously grabbing onto the sides, Dimitrius observed.

During the questions about gay marriage, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, had a nervous look, and he put his hands in his pockets, which is also a classic sign of nervousness, Dimitrius said.”

(Satire from Blogcritics)
“In a rare moment of unscripted candidness, American President George Bush spent time away from answering questions at a recent speech to students at the University of Kansas to voice his displeasures and concerns about small countries.

“Small countries complicate everything and end up attacking each other a lot,” the President stated, “not to mention that it’s hard to find them on maps.”

Bush said he remembered the simplicity of the Cold War, and sometimes wished back to the days when there were only two countries in the world.

“Even though we didn’t like each other, at least we knew where the other guy was coming from. Nowadays, I can barely keep up with all these new countries, let alone know what they want. Sure, I can still find Russia, and Canada, and China’s not too much trouble, and Australia’s the big island. But the rest of them, it can be difficult.”

As for Mexico, “It’s not really small, but it’d still be better if we could make a state out of it.”

Bush then praised the pioneering efforts of the European Union to simplify the world’s geography.

“At a time when countries seem to be splitting up rather than joining together, I applaud the efforts of the European Union to act a little bit more selflessly,” said Bush. Adding, “It’s about time a fairly big country like Germany took matters into its own hands and decided to unite the continent.”

Still, according to the President, the European Union is the exception. And there are plenty of examples of small countries only leading to trouble.

“Take the Middle East. The biggest trouble spot in the world today, and it’s absolutely filled with dinky, little countries. But just imagine how quickly they’d all make peace if someone went there and made a Middle Eastern Union. One country, no more fighting.”

This need to unite was especially true of countries with similar sounding names, Bush continued.

“Iraq and Iran are right next to each other and only one letter different. Why are they two countries? If they’d have joined together five or six years ago, then we’d only have to invade once. And God Almighty knows what the world needs is less wars.”
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/07/24/195514.php

The donkeys will happily wear their nappies or tissue
How you will persuade them to wear is  the central issue
Painful kicks from their behinds are just a side-issue.

“Donkey owners in a Kenyan town are up in arms after officials ordered their animals to wear nappies.

The local council in Limuru said the measure was needed to keep the town’s streets clean, reports the BBC.

But adverse press coverage and outrage from the town’s residents has led the authority to put its plans on hold.
And water trader Simon Kamau, who uses donkeys to transport water to his clients, added: “The problem is that the donkey can give you a fatal kick. I was once kicked by a donkey and it broke my leg.

“NEW YORK – Former President Clinton’s planned book on citizen activism, “Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World,” will come out Sept. 4 with a first printing of 750,000, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday.
Clinton, whose memoir “My Life” was a million seller, will tour nationwide to promote the book and will narrate the audio version.
“I’ve done my best in this book to demonstrate what I’ve seen firsthand through my (William J. Clinton) Foundation’s work in Africa and around the world: that all kinds of giving can make a profoundly positive difference,” Clinton said in a statement released by Knopf.”

“A new psychology study at Washington University was no laughing matter: It found that older adults may have a harder time getting jokes because of an age-related decline in certain memory and reasoning abilities.

The research suggested that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.

Researchers tested about 40 healthy adults over age 65 and 40 undergraduate students with exercises in which they had to complete jokes and stories. Participants also had to choose the correct punch line for verbal jokes and select the funny ending to series of cartoon panels.”

DENVER — A man who told two women they were extremely beautiful was arrested on charges of harassment last week, Denver police said.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13637370/detail.html

A widow and grandma spent the morning in jail, arrested for refusing to give a policeman her name when he tried writing her a ticket for failing to water her yard. The woman hasn’t watered her lawn in more than a year, and the condition of her yard violates an Orem zoning ordinance.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1444771

“AMES, Iowa, July 9 (UPI) — Men may wield more power in the workplace, but women wield more power at home, according to Iowa State University researchers.”

“BEIJING – They’re flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.

Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world’s largest, the state-run China Central Television reported Friday.

“We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV,” said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or “Foreigners Street,” tourist area where the bathroom is located. “After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy.”