PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults, the National newspaper reported Thursday. Belief in sorcery is widespread in this jungle-clad, mountainous South Pacific island nation where some villages only encountered Western civilization in the 1930s. Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae on the north coast and arrested leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers, the newspaper said. Th...

Thanks go out to my friend Jo who sent me these head-scratchers.... BRAIN CRAMPS (On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever," --Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contes...

From The Chaser of Australia: article President Bush has found another job for his friend and failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, appointing her to defend another embattled friend, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, after his indictment for perjury. "Harriet Miers is the ideal candidate to represent Scooter in court," the President announced. "She's a wonderful Christian, a loyal friend and I know her heart. What more could you want, apart from maybe legal skills?" But Mr Libby has rejec...

From Reuters: How do you like your kangaroo -- medium rare? Doesn't sound too appealing, does it? So in a bid to make Australia's national icon more palatable, Food Companion International magazine and the Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia are running a competition to find a more palatable culinary name for the meat of the hopping marsupials. More than 300 entries have already been received from around the world including marsu (taken from marsupial), marla and wallagang (der...

And you thought numerology was the only way to enlightenment... Alectromancy - uses letters inscribed in a circle, selected by rooster pecking grain. Bibliomancy - is divination by turning to random book passages. Bletonism - divines by observing swirling currents of water. Cephalomancy - Examines the boiled skull of an animal particularly goat or Donkey. Cromniomancy - divines using interpretation of the curved patterns found inside an onion. Dorze - throws fowl entrails on the...

Real personal ad: (honest!) "Among my interests are music and tanning..." State the obvious, why dontcha? Is this girl well? Does she need to sit down?

I know she is a woman and pregnant, but this takes balls... From today's Arizona Republic : A pregnant Ahwatukee Foothills resident ticketed for driving in a carpool lane is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday to argue that her unborn child counted as a passenger. Candace Dickinson, 23, hopes to overturn her penalty and prove her point that even though her child was still in the womb while she was driving on Interstate 10 on Nov. 8 in Ahwatukee Foothills, there still was a seco...

Have you read the life journal of this man? Apparently he's got his own blog now, along with Venom , Spiderman , Beast , and my favorite, the Incredible Hulk . Too funny, especially in the middle of the night. It's 12:15 AM... anything is funny about this time of night.

SURREAL - One part opiate of the masses, 13 parts overuse. Oddly, news anchor and television small talk is becoming more surreal. HUNKER DOWN - To brace oneself, in anticipation of media onslaught. Trotted out in reports about everything from politics to hurricanes. I have a hankering to ban all of this hunkering. PERSON OF INTEREST - Found within the context of legal commentary, but seldom encountered at cocktail parties. Pardon me, but people with guns want to talk with you...

From The Onion , America's Finest News Source: WASHINGTON, DC: ”In a sudden and unexpected blow to the Americans working to protect the holiday, liberal U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt ruled the private celebration of Christmas unconstitutional Monday. "In accordance with my activist agenda to secularize the nation, this court finds Christmas to be unlawful," Judge Reinhardt said. "The celebration of the birth of the philosopher Jesus", be it in the form of...

Okay, excellent time-waster here. Smack the Pingu! Cute graphics, great game! A yeti hitting a falling penguin for distance, baseball style. I can't seem to get the image to save into my computer and so you'll have to trust me on this. Our top score is 537.4 -- good luck!

This is the funniest sentence in the English language: I never said I loved you. If you say it with different emphasis on each word, you get six entirely different sentences. Try it for yourself! I never said I loved you. I never said I loved you. I never said I loved you. I never said I loved you. I never said I loved you. And, my personal favorite... I never said I loved you.

Saddam Hussein was president and ruler of Iraq from 1979 until his removal and capture after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. So let's take a look back at his contributions to his native land... He worked hard to beautify his country! Look at all the lovely palaces that dot the bleak Iraqi landscape. He tried to eliminate poverty and unemployment in his country! ...by killing all the poor people. He listened to the minorities! The Sunnis frequently had his ear. Let's try to find al...

Some thoughts on what a dog would ask God about the nature of the universe and his relationship to it... TO: GOD FROM: DOG Dear God: Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom, if ever, smell one another? Dear God: When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it still the same old story? Dear God: Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do y...

Someone from a trailer park must have invented toothpaste. Otherwise, it'd be called "teeth-paste." Bwah hah hah hah!