Desire to Win

Non mi ero accorto che la settimana scorsa fossero accadute così tante cose fondamentali.

In Russia a participant in a sex-doll river-rafting race was disqualified for sexually abusing his rafting apparatus. “I think,” said the man's friend, “it was an expression of his great desire to win.” (Mosnews.com.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld quoted Georges Clemenceau, who said, “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”

Warren Steed Jeffs, who reportedly has 80 wives and 250 children and serves as the leader of a polygamist Mormon sect, was arrested in Nevada on suspicion of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.

Tony Blair was seen sporting a new tea mug. “You're a man who's in charge,” reads the mug. “Others follow your lead.”

It was reported that the average British woman spends two and a half years on her hair during her lifetime

Swiss hikers were warned not to hug cows

A woman in Hohhot, China, crashed her car into another vehicle while allowing her dog to drive

Australian brothels were offering clients discounts based on their gasoline bills

Weekly Review, Harper's Magazine, 5 settembre 2006