It’s not just Americans and Europeans whose panties get twisted when animals have the nerve to die on camera. Thanks to a widely circulated video, Chinese authorities are banning restaurants from serving “poisonous snake-bitten chicken.” As the name suggests, the chicken must be killed by snake bite. From Reuters: The dish, served by a small [...]
It’s a horrible story. Police in Guangzhou, China arrested a 13-year-old boy for first drowning a three-year-old girl, then violating the corpse and then throwing the body out a fifth-floor window. Though the little monster confessed, he won’t face criminal charges because of his age. When asked for a possible motive, one psychologist raced to [...]
Solly Cholly: China’s first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors, has been torn down before it even opened. The owners were “interested only in profiting from sensationalism,” the China Daily reported one official said. Due to open in Chongqing in October, Love Land was [...]
Reliquaries are among my pet passions. Given unlimited funds, I’d make a pan-religious pilgrimage around the world to visit the bones, hair clippings, umbilical cords and foreskins of saints and gods. Maybe it’s because I’m non-religious that I’m drawn to these corporeal fragments of the divine. As of this weekend, I’d need to add northwest [...]
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Sounds like a certain village in China has been learning from old episodes of The Simpsons. From UPI: What appeared to be an invasion of snakes scared residents of a Chinese village as the reptiles were spotted crawling on roads and climbing trees. The snakes appeared in the village in the Zhuhai special economic zone [...]
Forteans and Noah’s Ark enthusiasts alike were excited by the news coming out of Hong Kong yesterday. The Wall Street Journal reported: This city’s three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world’s first life-size replica of Noah’s ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast [...]
