Free Republic

Half of 26 to 35-year-olds were unable to correctly identify a vagina on a medical diagram of the female reproductive system, a new survey has found.

We had to know: What sort of muffin could we bake if we spent $16 a pop? How good is a $16 muffin? Find out for yourself Last week's news that the government supposedly paid $16 apiece for breakfast muffins at a Justice Department conference set off critics of government spending. Hilton Worldwide, the hotel company that hosted the 2009 confab in Washington, disputes the accuracy of the claim in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general. The hotel called it an accounting thing, explaining that the price included various drinks and gratuity charges, in addition to the muffins....

The US Justice Department apparently paid $16 (£10) apiece for muffins for its staff. While this includes service charges and other mark-ups, how would one go about making a fiendishly expensive muffin at home? Flour, sugar, eggs, milk, butter. Prices of these key baking ingredients are on the up. But even so, making muffins from scratch costs well under a dollar apiece. So how can Stateside officials run up a bill of $4,200 for 250 muffins at a conference in a Washington DC hotel? This was the figure given in an audit by the US Justice Department's Inspector General released...

Muffins costing $16 (£10) and biscuits at $10 were among the "extravagant and wasteful" conference spending by the US justice department, a report has found. [...] The justice department said it accepted the findings, adding that it had taken steps since 2009 "to ensure that these problems do not occur again". [...] The report found that the justice department had spent $4,200 on 250 muffins at an August 2009 legal conference at a hotel near the White House. A justice department spokeswoman told reporters that took place at a time when there were no strict limits on food and beverage...

An angry dispute that ended with a local man being charged with a felony aggravated assault began when he and the woman he was with threw a muffin at each other, San Antonio police said. Vicente Cerna, 27, was ordered jailed on $50,000 bail Tuesday after an incident at the woman's apartment in the 3500 block of South Gevers. The woman initially let Cerna, who was intoxicated and verbally abusive, into her apartment so he could sleep on her couch Monday night, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Tuesday, an argument began when he would not leave, the woman told...

British Airways have suspended a cabin crew steward for eating a muffin that was discarded on a passenger's meal tray, it was reported today.

One of the most-watched pageants on planet earth, the Miss Universe contest for year 2005 will be held on May 30, 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand. About one billion TV viewers are expected to watch this year's event. The event will be telecast live and will be carried by many stations all over the World. It is best to check your local listing to make sure you don't miss this event. The bicentennial city of Bangkok is known as the City of Angels and is rapidly becoming one of the premiere fashion capitals of the world. The city is also home...