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Gallery: Familiar-yet-alien Soviet arcade games While playing Centipede (don't judge) at my local mall in the '80s, it never occurred to me that somewhere behind the soon-to-fall Iron Curtain there would be some punk playing the Soviet version of arcade games as well. Hell yeah they were! Now, thanks to two nostalgic Muscovites who remembered their days of playing "Sea Battle," there is an entire museum full of these Soviet-era games. The story of the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines is so cool we couldn't make this up if we tried. Let's talk about the games first. Soviet classics Sea...

I was a great fan of Superman comic books when I was a kid. Among my favorites were those in which the Man of Steel traveled to Bizarro World — a dimension in which everything was the opposite of our normal world. Watching the last few Republican presidential debates, I now have a pretty good idea of how Superman must have felt as he tried to function in a world in which left is right, black is white and up is down. I refer, of course, to the manner in which former Speaker Newt Gingrich is being attacked by fellow...

I have received enough calls and emails on this within the last few weeks to A.) cause concern and B.) merit a post. People are having difficulty withdrawing cash from banks. I just received the SECOND call on this from California this week. The question is, do banks have the right to deny you cash withdrawals? The answer is NO. They do not. And both of the men I have heard from in California were obviously being bee-essed by their bank. The bank couldn't cite statute, and then started haggling over the amount of cash withdrawals they would allow. That's...

Talk show host Bill Maher once again displayed his ignorance for America’s history and founding by telling Tea Partiers that the Founding Fathers would have “hated” their “guts.” As you’d come to expect from Maher he constantly referred to members of the Tea Party as “teabaggers” – which would probably be an insult coming from virtually everybody else. When Maher uses this word, however, the Tea Party should wear it as a badge of honor. Next he told Tea Partiers that the Founding Fathers were “nothing like them.” No, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington and all the...

And now, under Obama, America apologizes to mad man Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi: but condemns Israel as "insulting" Vice President Joe Biden and America for building homes for its people: ... I don't know who is guiding this foreign policy, but I have an idea:

How weird would it be if Obama were Bizarro, who does everything backwards?Yes, it's --BizarrObama!

"Since the last election, I no longer have to pretend to be Captain Canada when I travel abroad."

MISIONES, Argentina, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Argentine police say a destitute 1-year-old boy was kept alive by a colony of stray cats who shared food scraps and kept him warm in the city of Misiones. The boy, who had been missing for several days, was found by Police Officer Lorean Lindgvist, The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday "The boy was lying at the bottom of a gutter. There were all these cats on top of him licking him because he was really dirty," Lindgvist said. "When I walked over they became really protective and spat at me. They were keeping the...

I have ranted long enough. Whether my points were made or not doesn’t change a thing. I will leave you with these thoughts. It is long but a very good read. There is a crisis in the making. 2010 Was Not A Good Year To Be President Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033. That’s right: 2033. Continued...

Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday. Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict. He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital,...

From time to time a conservative pundit has suggested that John McCain choose a Democrat for his vice presidential running mate. That usually has been met with howls of derision from other conservatives who find the notion preposterous. But is it? The main reason is obvious: the untimely demise of McCain would allow a Democrat to ascend to the White House, forfeiting his party’s victory and reversing the popular mandate for a Republican president. (Let’s leave aside for now whether a McCain victory would represent a Republican mandate or a miracle, despite his party affiliation.) But let’s consider if one...

When Dr Brady Barr decided to dress up as a crocodile, the disguise needed to be good. Otherwise he was in grave danger of being eaten by the real thing. The zoologist adopted his bizarre outfit in the hope of getting closer to a colony of Nile crocodiles, which can grow up to 20ft. His disguise was a prosthetic head attached to the front of a protective metal cage covered with canvas and a generous plastering of hippo dung to mask his human scent. It was 13ft long - average Nile size. The head was made of glass fibre, while...

Listen and comment. If you don't have a local affiliate, listen online --- http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ Whackjob George told the guy he almost believes him. This is even worse than last night's guest who channeled some aliens and who hated Bush.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When an American minister, Darryl R. Peebles, typed his name into an Internet search engine he was surprised to find another Daryl R. Peebles living in the Australian island state of Tasmania. But the surprises kept coming. After the minister contacted the Australian Daryl Peebles and over a series of e-mails the two found they had far more in common that just a name. They were both born in 1949. Both have three children with a child born in 1975 and in 1977. Their fathers both came from small towns and worked on lathes of some...

TOM Cruise has claimed he will eat the PLACENTA after fiancée Katie Holmes has their baby. The actor, 43 — who wants her to give birth in silence according to his Scientology cult rules — said: “I’m gonna eat the placenta, too. “I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m going to eat the cord and the placenta right there.” But when a GQ magazine interviewer said it would be a big meal, Cruise replied: “OK, maybe I won’t.”

A grotesque imitation of Superman fashioned out of lifeless matter. Clad in an invulnerable costume just like Superman's and endowed with all of his mighty super-powers, Bizarro possesses a dim copy of Superman's super-keen mind. His flesh is white, the color of chalk, and his face appears faceted, as though it had been chiseled out of rock. His black hair is matted and unkempt. He is well-meaning but witless, super-powerful but pathetic. His speech is illiterate and ungrammatical. Because Bizarro's mind is an imperfect imitation of Superman's, however, he is capable of flights of occasional super-genius. Because he possesses dim...

<p>FREEDOM rEVOLUTION MOVEMENT IS A GROUP DEDICATED TO FREEDOM. no creed, color, race, sex, its all 1 race. we need eachother. there are no sides, we are all in this together!!!!</p> <p>FREEDOM. ITS TIME TO END THE WAY OUR WORLD IS RUN BY GOVERNMENTS DICTATING WHAT OUR POLICIES ARE. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL. ITS TIME TO STAND UP AND PUT AN END TO THE CORRUPTION AND GREED THE POWERS TO BE HAVE INSTILLED. WORLD REVOLUTION.ITS TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND STOP THE WARS, RACISM, HATRED THAT HAS TAKEN OVER.NOTN IN OUR NAMES WILL GOVTS WAGE WAR, KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE OVER GREED, OIL, POWER. THE TIME IS NOW. STAND UP FOR YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS. NO MORE PERSONAL AGENDAS. NO MORE OPPRESSION. 1 EARTH, 1 HUMAN RACE. TAKE THE POWER BACK. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL! THE rEVOLUTION OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS STARTS NOW. EVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION! A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE AND WE PLEDGE TO MAKE IT REAL!</p>

CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate college is being criticized for scheduling a speaker who has compared victims of the September Eleventh terrorist attacks to one of the Nazi architects of the Holocaust. Ward Churchill will take part in a panel discussion at Hamilton College, near Utica, on February third. Churchill, who's an American Indian, is head of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The day after September Eleventh, 2001, Churchill wrote an essay in which he said the victims of the terrorist attacks weren't innocent bystanders and he compared them to Nazi Adolf Eichmann,...

Host Gwen Ifill and her guests David Sanger (NYT), Dana Priest (WP), Gebe Martinez (Congressional Quarterly) and Jeanne Cummings (WSJ) discussed the week in Washington. They're going to BY GOD make Rumsfeld resign. Abu Ghraid was the hot topic for Dana. They talked about Abu Ghraid in depth, and actually mentioned Nick Berg a couple of times (but dropped the subject like a hot rock before they were forced to deal with it. Kind of like something you'd stepped in on a hot summer day.) No Teddy, no 17 congresscritters. Next, they all laughed a chummy little laugh about the...

FROM AUG. 2001: MIDI - SEND IN THE CLOWNS We’ll make them smart…right from the start We will make sure that each has a healthy heart Send in the clones Next thing you know…we’ll surely go To that bizarre island of Dr. Moreau Send in the clones…we need those clones Our Brave New World…oh, what a world Huxley had told us of what he knew would be unfurled I’ve seen the future and, friends, I can tell you I hurled Send in those clones…we need those clones It’s time to fear…it’s become clear Shelley was right and our own Frankenstein’s...