A Hamilton man Tasered by police is in hospital after the stun gun ignited a “flammable object” in his pants, burning him.

I think they should reconsider their liberal use of tasers. They seemed to be abused more than they are used appropriately.

Bush has shattered the 70 year record for lowest approval rating. A mere 28% approves, and I have to wonder how many in the 28% have oil stock, or their heads up their asses.

This makes our standards for the next election a lot lower. An 11 year old could probably run the country just as good, so “better than Bush” isn’t much of a compliment for any of the 2008 front-runners.

The United States is home to only 5% of the world’s population yet houses 25% of the world’s prison population. One in 100 citizens are in prison.

Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

I thought the American government was the only govt dumb enough to offer corporate welfare. Looks like our charming neighbors overseas are copying the same dumbass plan to end their credit crunch.

Britain, the world’s fifth-largest economy, offers a prime testing ground for policies to counteract the global financial crisis, which stems in part from a bursting housing bubble. Its banks depend heavily on financial markets for the money they turn into mortgages and other consumer loans — lending that has helped make Britons the world’s most indebted consumers. Now, those markets have effectively shut down, putting Britain’s banking system and its economy at risk.

Oil has reached a record high at $116 a barrel. The economy is bad unless you are an oil man. Don’t worry, you’ll get your great depression bonus later this year, then the $600 you get can go right in your gas tank where it belongs.

The problem with oil is that the only alternative offered uses up our food supply which in turn raises the costs of everything. If that doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, wait until you get into the article.

Today’s tensions are only likely to get worse in coming years. Consider a few numbers: The planet’s population is expected to grow by 50 percent to nine billion by sometime in the middle of the century. The number of cars and trucks is projected to double in 30 years— to more than two billion — as developing nations rapidly modernize. And twice as many passenger jetliners, more than 36,000, will in all likelihood be crisscrossing the skies in 20 years.

I don’t know what they’re trying to get at, but I think terrorists are going to get Digg accounts and Rick Roll everybody. Perhaps they will make a giant penis cannon on SecondLife to annoy the obese socially inept virtual nightclub dancers..

The tools of the so-called Web 2.0 world—including social networking sites, virtual worlds and wikis—have introduced new and creative ways to tap the Internet’s potential. They have also drawn the concern of lawmakers, who are searching for ways to make them available to the military and intelligence communities as well as understand how terrorists might also be employing them to train for and plan attacks.

All jokes aside, my major concern is when do they want to usher in the closed down, corporate controlled “Internet 2″?

A person who saw “Expelled” wrote Dawkins a letter.

Now I truly understand who you atheists and darwinists really are! You people believe that it was okay for my great-grandparents to die in the Holocaust! How disgusting. Your past article about the Holocaust was just window dressing. We Jews will fight to keep people like you out of the United States!

His reply back is too good to break into excerpts. Have a read.

Pirates seized a Spanish fishing boat taking 26 hostages, which is somewhat normal according to the article.

Last year, more than 25 ships were seized by pirates in Somali coastal waters.

And they say file sharing is a crime…

Scientists are saying time travel is impossible at this point, though theoretically possible. Thanks scientists.

Thankfully this “intelligent design” movie isn’t doing so well. Less popular than a Michael Moore movie, they might also be looking at legal trouble.

Expelled’s producers have also been accused of copyright violations — they’re said not to have secured the rights for the use of John Lennon’s “Imagine” and The Killer’s “All these things I have done.”

For more info on intelligent design please watch reruns of The Flintstones.