Through The Mist Darkly

A 16 year old girl was executed in Iran last Sunday. Why did she end up hanging in public? The judge didn’t like her “sharp tongue”.

What’s the punishment for jaywalking over there? Beheading??

(story)
Update: Cox and Forkum have their say

Beats the hell out of beach volleyball and sychronized diving.

Courtesy of the crazed Photoshoppers over at Fark.

At the risk of offending them again, here’s this week’s version of Those Wacky Catholics.

Seems that since 1977, they’ve been flocking to Lake Arthur, New Mexico to gaze on the likeness of Jesus Christ that manifested itself on a tortilla.

Nothing says faith like a taco I guess.

One thing we can be sure of, Haley Waldman won’t be tempted to eat this miracle.

Story and fuzzy pictures here.

Edward Abbey

>“No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.”

The absolutely stunning photography of Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Aerial and animal photography of the finest kind.

(Via MetaFilter)

Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” has been stolen from a museum in Norway. Turns out it’s one of four that Munch painted and this is the second one to be stolen.

BBC story.

The grand old lady, The Canadian National Exhibition, is on again in Toronto. The “Ex” has been a tradition here for over a hundred years.

So why am I posting a picture of Klu Klux Klansmen? No reason really. Just found it surreal. On second thought, so is the Ex.

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Took this in early 1999 on a business trip to San Franciso. We had an afternoon off and took a walk down around the bay. Hundreds of these jumbos had taken over an entire dock area.