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Somebody call me a cab.
Because by “find” you meant, of course, “eat”:
Police in Lower Saxony, Germany, who decided to teach a vulture to sniff out corpses of missing people, have hit difficulties two months into training.
Reasoning that it could fly over miles of wasteland, then descend where it found a missing person, they had wanted to fit it with a transmitter.But it transpires that Sherlock, as the bird is known, is not very interested.
On top of that, it is shy, confuses human with animal remains and actually prefers to walk, Spiegel magazine says.
via BBC News – German police vulture scheme fails to take off.
In this image released Wednesday May 18, 2011, by Arriva Trains Wales, showing an unidentified man as be attempts to board a train with a pony, for a journey from Wrexham to Holyhead, Wales, on Saturday May 14, 2011. The man attempted to buy a ticket for himself and the pony before taking the animal into a lift to get to the train platform, but was stopped from boarding the train. The man left the station on foot and it is not known how he continued the journey of nearly 100 miles. (AP/Arriva Trains Wales)
Um, a six-pack of Red Bull and a bushel of carrots? It’s a pony, not a cat.
The Beck-ola has lost its mojo:
The problem with “Glenn Beck” is that it has turned into a serial doomsday machine that’s a bummer to watch.
Mr. Beck, a more gifted entertainer than most cable hosts, can still bring it, lighting up with characters and voices. But much of the time, there is sense that the fatigue from always being on alert, tilting forward in the saddle against the next menace, is starting to wear him down.
What had been a fast and loose assault on all things liberal has grown darker and less entertaining, especially with the growing revolution in the Middle East, a phenomenon Mr. Beck sees as something of a beginning to some kind of end. He’s often alone in the studio with his chalkboards and obscure factoids, a setting that reminds me of an undergrad seminar on macroeconomics with an around-the-bend professor I didn’t particularly enjoy.
Last Wednesday, as he grabbed all the disparate strands from around the globe and tied them into a great, grand bow of doom, he ambled alone between various blackboards, each jammed with portentous bullet points. He often looked away from the camera into a middle distance as he spoke of a calamity that only he can see.
“He used to be a lot funnier,” said David Von Drehle, who wrote the article in Time magazine. “He was the befuddled everyman and something entirely new, but the longer people have listened to his ranting and raving, the wearier they become. Now you are just getting down to diehards. I mean, how many people were in the Waco compound at the end? A couple of hundred?”
via Fox and Glenn Beck Stare Into a Dark Future – NYTimes.com.
Arundhati Roy encounters the howling mental void that is Charlie Rose:
It is difficult to answer extremely stupid questions. Very, very, difficult. Stupidity defeats you in some way. Especially when time is at a premium. And sometimes these questions are themselves mischievous. … Once, I was on The Charlie Rose Show. Well, I was invited to be on The Charlie Rose Show. He said, “Tell me, Arundhati Roy, do you believe that India should have nuclear weapons?” So I said, “I don’t think India should have nuclear weapons. I don’t think Israel should have nuclear weapons. I don’t think the United States should have nuclear weapons.” “No, I asked you do you believe that India should have nuclear weapons.” I answered exactly the same thing. About four times… They never aired it!
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