The Return of Baby Jesus

Just in time for Christmas baby Jesus has been returned to his manger… make that 32 Jesuses. Call it a Christmas miracle, of sorts. Chicago homeowners whose statutes of baby Jesus were stolen from their outdoor nativity scenes have finally been reunited with their missing items. According to local police, dozens of plastic baby Jesus dolls were stolen last week from nativity scenes in people’s front yards. Then on Saturday morning a woman found all the missing Jesuses lined up along the fence on her lawn and called her local church. The pastor there told local news reporters that the … Continue reading

Dumb, Dumber and Just Plain Sad

It’s a known fact: people do crazy things. Whether they are motivated by money (see “Fear Factor” contestants dining on live maggots) or simply functioning on limited brain cells (see David Blaine’s “Drowned Alive” stunt), some people’s actions just leave you shaking your head. That’s exactly what I did when I heard about the following simply stupid moves pulled by a few of our fellow “earthlings:” DUMB A Spanish newspaper reports that police recently arrested four Frenchmen for jumping in front of cars on a busy road in Spain so that they could videotape the reaction of the motorists and … Continue reading