Day: August 10, 2012

You Missed It: Wild night edition

For the first time in my life, I care about corn. The U.S. corn harvest is expected to be the smallest in years this fall, thanks to the drought that’s affecting more than half of the country right now. It’s making good prices go up, which takes a lot of other things with it. But worst of all, this could mean that whiskey prices will go up. And that is something that simply cannot be tolerated. If you were busy winning the gold in women’s soccer this week, odds are you missed it.

Next time ride a horse
Country singer Randy Travis may be the embodiment of how many people see country music, and he gave them a lot to see. This week, Travis made headlines following a wild night that luckily injured no one. First, he walked into a convenience store drunk and bought cigarettes, even though he clearly didn’t have his wallet on him. He was found later lying on the side of the road in a construction zone after his sweet 1998 Trans Am into a barrier. He was arrested after yelling incoherently at the police. Christian country sure has changed.

Red rover
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars earlier this week, in the most advanced landing ever done. The SUV-sized rover is now starting to take pictures and take soil samples, as it continues the search for life on the red planet. By my count, we’ve launched roughly 80,000 rovers on Mars. At some point, they are going to launch one right back at us.

I can haz killing spree?
House cats are far more dangerous than previously thought. Researchers recently attached cameras to pet cats’ necks to follow their actions and see what they do all day, because apparently curing cancer is all done. What they found was that cats kill other animals about twice a week, and they pretty much just do it for fun, not for food. This means that cats can kill billions of animals in a year, then model for the latest meme.

When life gives men lemons, those men f%&k them

People respond to stress in different ways. Some shut down, and others claim they can only produce under pressure. It turns out that men are more interested in reproducing under stress.

British researchers recently learned that men who are tasked with stressful tasks, like public speaking, become attracted to a wider range of women’s body mass indexes, including women who are larger than what they normally go for. This might come from picturing the audience naked.

Dieting women of the world responded with a resounding, “Are you f%@king kidding me?!”

Frustrated women in the streets

In New York, nothing is free. Trojan, the condom makers, set up a stands in the city giving out free, shall we say, sexual utensils for the ladies. But it didn’t last as long as many hoped.

Unfortunately, some of the stands were closed down before they were finished, because City Hall didn’t like the large crowds that gathered at them. The masses were not happy.

“[Mayor] Bloomberg doesn’t want anyone to have fun. You can’t have a giant soda. You can’t have a vibrator,” one woman said.