Sacha Baron Cohen is Saddam Hussein

So, looks like Sacha Baron Cohen is starring in a film version of Saddam Hussein’s novel Zabibah and the King, an allegorical and tender ditty wherein the King (Saddam) falls in love with Zabidah the peasant (the Iraqi people) who gets abused and raped by her husband (the invading US forces) and then dies on Jan. 17 (date of US’s first aerial bombardment of Baghdad in 1991). Hollywood’s The Dictator (because he was a dictator) adaptation will be overseen by Borat and Brüno director Larry Charles. So… it’s going to be funny?

A “Few” Mobsters Were Arrested, Did You Hear?

More surprising than the actual arrest of 100 or so alleged mobsters in the NYC-New England area by the FBI on Thursday, is that are even 100 or so alleged mobsters still around the NYC-New England area to be arrested. Read more »

Banksy eBay Seller: “I Was Paid Off”

Since the “True Identity of Banksy” eBay auction was pulled the second time — first, because the seller wasn’t offering anything tangible, then just after the auction hit a dollar short of $1 million — seller “jaybuysthings” says that he was “paid off” to shut down the sale, but was “permitted” to send out a misleading photo that has nothing to do with it. Read more »

You’re Not Working, You’re Just Giving Up

The city’s unemployment rate decreased last month, but only because people stopped looking for jobs. Because they’ve given up. Because there are no jobs. And even when there are jobs, they don’t pay good wages or reduce the city’s ridiculous income gap in any significant way, so why even bother trying? Read more »

10,000 Years Ago, People Ate Their Pets

The remains of the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas were found… in fossilized human shit. Well, times were hard back in the B.C. era. Sometimes, you had to eat your best friend or die. For your information, people that eat dogs poop orange-brown (Thanks, University of Maine!).

City Getting New Website to Crowdsource Dumb Ideas

Have you got some big bold ideas that would make New York City more sustainable/livable/creative class/green, if only one of dem goofballs from City Hall would just listen to you? Well stop it with the name-calling already, because the city IS going to start listening to you very soon, via the dynamic new Internet website Give a Minute! Read more »