Drop and give me 20 mantras, you maggot.
The Marines, famous for putting recruits through basic-training hell, are about to take another tack — with “mindfulness-based” training techniques similar to Buddhism.
The techniques include silent meditation and yoga-like stretching. Looks as if their new motto will be “Semper-Om.”
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What are they going to charge for next, air?
Worcester State University in Massachusetts has outraged students by charging them for walking on campus, by implementing a $72 “pedestrian/parking fee” on students.
The fee applies both to students who park in a school lot and who walk onto campus.
Most students think the school can go take a hike.
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In order to help the homeless, a group of people in Maryland are being driven out of their homes.
Officials in one town are forcing dozens of people out of the Beech Crest Mobile Home Park because they plan to bulldoze it and put in apartments for homeless people.
Many park residents said at a town meeting that they would have no place to live.
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Bacon is being stuffed pretty much everywhere these days, but this is just ridiculous.
The PYT restaurant in Philadelphia has just come up with the “bacon taco,” in which the shell is replaced by several slices of bacon pressed together.
Fortunately for the cardiac-challenged, PYT is planning to make only 20 a day.
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This music is real crap.
A composer in England has a piece of work “written” by birds, which placed the notes by pooping on a piece of paper with musical scale lines that was put under their perch.
Jon Hering’s mess-terpiece, “Number Two,” was performed at an art gallery in Liverpool. It apparently wound up sounding a lot like dubstep.