The Odd and Miscellaneous

BBC: Giant beetle’s long haul trip

David Weigel on the campaign trail: On the way out of the Denver convention, defeated candidate and Massachusetts party chair George Phillies pulled me aside to express how worried he…

Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in. Anyone finding the package has…

The Philippines’ taste for civet coffee I like coffee as much as (actually, more than) the next person, but I’ll pass, so to speak.

Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing His alleged attacker reported the crime to the police himself, Interfax adds. Mr Lyalin apparently feels fine and bears no ill-will. “We were drinking and…

Iran anti-vice chief ‘in brothel’

In case you haven’t seen it before, Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. “Last year, the government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks than it did on national…

In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough?

Killing of glamour model-bodyguard stuns Moscow If you’re going to have to live in a culture intimidated by gangsters, you may at least have fashionable body guards. Standing up to…