Bear Bile Farming Is Even Worse Than It Sounds

Hackers, protesters, and more than 70 Chinese celebrities, including Yao Ming, are opposing an initial public offering made by a Chinese company called Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, whose key ingredient is bear bile. The bile is cruelly "milked" by inserting tubes in the animals abdomens three times a day, "sometimes for…

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Infamous 'Kitchen Nightmares' Restaurant Owner Facing Deportation

A Scottsdale, Arizona, restaurateur whose very public meltdown in the aftermath of a now-infamous appearance on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares nearly ran him out of business can now add "possible deportation" to his mounting list of troubles.

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Jon Stewart on Rob Ford and Canada's National Crack-Smoking Pastime

Jon Stewart began The Daily Show last night by noting: "The great thing about mayors is that they can maintain the eccentricities that get sanded-off and focus-grouped out of statewide or national politicians." And even among crazy mayors, he says, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stands out.

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Chinese Newspaper Confuses the Japanese Military with...DeviantArt

A website for Chinese newspaper Global Times recently published photos of a new Japanese military helicopter "design concept". Too bad it's not real. It's not even made by the Japanese military.

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'I'm shaking ball-sacks man' and Other Encounters with the OK Tornado

On Monday, a man living in Oklahoma decided to be a pal and help out a friend who was moving. This is a saintly act. Moving sucks. While hauling stuff from one place to the next, the men were surprised to encounter a serious tornado on I-44.

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