Table scraps:
♣GIVE THIS EDITOR a raise! The Chicago Sun-Times begins a story with, “A 35-year-old woman in her 30s died after being struck by a school bus Friday morning on the West Side, police said.” Look how much you learn in one sentence: a woman died after being hit by a school bus, and 35-year-old people are in their 30s. (Thanks, KC)
♣FOR EVERY SILLY superhero, there is a silly villain. Two artists out-super each other, to decide whose character can be the Superest.
♣EVER WONDER WHY Mike Huckabee is so happy to have a washed-up, popular-because-it’s-ironic actor like Chuck Norris around him all the time? Turns out, it’s because Norris is huge — seriously, no-joke popular — in the strange other world of Christian pop culture. (That link’s a few weeks old, but whatevs: It’s the most interesting thing I’ve ever read about Chuck Norris.)
♣WHAT DO YOU do with a bathtub that’s too old and gross to even sit in anymore? You, uh, make other ways to sit in it.
♣FINALLY, BULLETPROOF VIDEO evidence that ghosts exist.
♣AND THEN, THERE’S this.