This comes from J. Napsterista:
Officers in the capital of the Netherlands are in open revolt against a new code of behavior that orders them to stop taking drugs in their free time.
The new rules, due to come in on January 1, have upset officers who patrol the city’s infamous coffee shops, where cannabis is smoked [...]

Benazir Bhutto, Rest In Peace.

Topanga ties one on…
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Former child star Danielle Fishel, a teen heartthrob on ABC’s “Boy Meets World,” was arrested this week on a drunken driving warrant from Los Angeles County, police said.
Fishel was arrested Thursday just before 5 a.m. after officers stopped a car she was in, said Newport Beach Sgt. [...]

Here we go again with another crazed shooter.

Robert Hawkins
Nine people are confirmed dead following the shooting at Westroads Mall this afternoon.
Around 1:40 p.m. CST, a gunman on the third floor of the Von Maur store in the Westroads Mall opened fire, killing eight, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The gunman is believed to [...]

“I don’t understand why this hasn’t ended up on ‘CSI: Miami’ yet” - Jim Cramer

New York Times has a story about Seth Tobias, Circle T hedge fund manager, found dead in his pool at his Jupiter, Florida mansion.
Mr. Tobias, a native of Philadelphia, once worked at Cramer’s former money-management firm. He formed Circle T in [...]

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An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said. Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was [...]

Every woman in Saudi Arabia looks like they were erased from a Photoshop image.
From BreitBart:
A court in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The 19-year-old woman — whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to [...]

Let’s take a break for a moment from all this hosting nonsense (which is really bring us down) and try to lighten up the mood a bit by getting back to that little Finnish school shooting thing.
Apparently there are a few copycats in the wings:
Teenagers held in Sweden as fear of copycat killings grows
TWO Swedish [...]

In April 2007, oddculture.com and related sites went down. We were blamed by ServerFly.com (stay far away from them) as the “problem”. Perhaps our scripts were dragging the server down, we don’t know. But serverfly’s support was abysmal. There’s no excuse for keeping our site down for days and days while we wait and wait [...]

This is what Finnish school shooter Pekka-Eric Auvinen (now deceased) left behind (Odd Culture feels this document is newsworthy, therefore we are printing it) :
(info on the shooting here)

ATTACK INFORMATION
Event: Jokela High School Massacre.
Targets: Jokelan Lukio (High School Of Jokela), students and faculty, society, humanity, human race.
Date: 11/7/2007.
Attack Type: Mass murder, political terrorism (altough I [...]