Illegal monkey living on Frosted Flakes bites woman.

Gotta be the headline of the day, although it should be "undocumented" monkey.

The young are leaving the labor force, the old are flocking to it

At the Washington ComPost: But the participation rate for the 65+ cohort has jumped during the recession, hitting a 30-year high as more Americans have either decided to postpone retirement or have come out of retirement to work as their savings have been hit by the downturn

College Beauty Contest In China Has Some Very Unique, Nipple-Specific Requirements

Among the requirements:

1. The space between the eyes and mouth should be 36 percent of the face’s total length.

2. The height of the individual should be 7.1 times the height of her head.

And the one that really has people talking:

3. The distance between the two nipples should be at least 20 centimeters.

In the days before x-rays, a nail in the skull was a popular homicide technique

The Method of the Nail

Apparently the 'method of the nail' used to be quite a popular homicide technique, because in the days before x-rays it was hard to tell that someone had a nail in their head. The victim's hair might hide the wound, so people, not seeing any obvious sign of injury or foul play, would often assume death occurred from natural causes.

Mark Steyn: A Nation of Sandra Flukes

So this is America’s best and brightest — or, at any rate, most expensively credentialed. Sandra Fluke has been blessed with a quarter-million dollars of elite education, and, on the evidence of Wednesday night, is entirely incapable of making a coherent argument.

She has enjoyed the leisurely decade-long varsity once reserved for the minor sons of Mitteleuropean grand dukes, and she has concluded that the most urgent need facing the Brokest Nation in History is for someone else to pay for the contraception of 30-year-old children. 

The tragedy for America is that Sandra Fluke is all too typical.