Michael Vick to face more jail time as sentence is converted to dog years

RICHMOND, Va. – Under a strict but little-known clause attached to Michael Vick’s plea agreement, the troubled ex-con’s recent crass behavior, including publically quaffing an adult beverage and cavorting with fellow athletically gifted renegade Allen Iverson in a Norfolk strip club, will add 11 and a half years to his recently completed 23-month sentence because [...]

Comic book fans outraged at Disney’s new Marvel ‘crossover’ characters

BURBANK, Calif. – Thousands of costume-clad comic book fans filled the streets in a super-powered protest Tuesday, at one point surrounding Disney’s corporate headquarters in Burbank, California, causing traffic delays that lasted throughout the night. Police were on edge as tensions escalated into a showdown wherein demonstrators dressed as super villains began taunting their hero-bedecked [...]

A Square with Jokes – September 1, 2009

Chappaquiddick bridge to be renamed Ted Kennedy memorial causeway

EDGARTOWN, Mass. – Just a week after the death of semi-permanent Senate fixture Ted Kennedy, the so-called Lion of the Senate has garnered a touching posthumous honor in his home state. Chappaquiddick’s picturesque Dike Bridge, where, in a less-than-lionhearted moment in 1969, Kennedy drove a young courtesan to her watery death, is to be rechristened [...]