So Love Is Like Fruit? Or Coffee...?

From my fortune cookie:

Dodge It, Mike!

Inspired by RH

iPhone Cam: Elizabeth, NJ

From the Courthouse at 2 Broad St.:

Once Again, Bullshit Kills

Author hires investigators to review sweat lodge deaths - CNN.com

A self-help expert said Tuesday that he has hired his own investigators to determine what happened at his Arizona retreat last week, when two people died after spending considerable time in a sweat lodge.

and, of course,

Ray is the author of the best-selling book "Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want." Ray, described on his Web site as a "personal success strategist," has appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" and the "Oprah Winfrey Show," and is featured in the self-empowerment film "The Secret."

I Guess We Have To Bomb Scandinavia, Now

In Surprise, Obama Wins Nobel for Diplomacy - NYTimes.com

In a stunning surprise, the Nobel Committee announced Friday that it had awarded its annual peace prize to President Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” less than nine months after he took office.

What a Way To Go

Death by Ale:
London Beer Flood

The brewery was located among the poor houses and tenements of the St Giles Rookery, where whole families lived in basement rooms that quickly filled with beer. The wave left nine people dead: eight due to drowning and one from alcohol poisoning.

Chop Shop

Including some enterprising fellows from Bensonhusrt:

Philadelphia Magazine:

About the same time that Rose Oprea was hospitalized for her stroke, the 62nd precinct of the New York City police department, in Brooklyn, was notified of a possible case of fraud. A couple — Deborah Johnson and her husband, Robert Nelms — had recently purchased the Daniel George & Son Funeral Home. A man had come to the home wishing to bury his aunt, who had prepaid for her funeral; Johnson could not find the appropriate documentation, and noticed larger-scale accounting irregularities. The case was assigned to Detective Patricia O’Brien.

O’Brien checked the files at the funeral home, which seemed to corroborate Johnson’s concern. But there was something else, Johnson told O’Brien. The detective accompanied her upstairs, to a hidden room. It was fitted out like an operating room, with hospital-style overhead lights, a hydraulic lift that rose through the ceiling of the embalming room on the floor below, a toilet with tubes into which blood and other bodily fluids were drained, scalpels, knives, saws. …

I Never Did Trust Those Fucking Scaffolds

Mob Infiltration Seen in New York City Buildings Department - NYTimes.com

As construction and scaffolding inspectors, two Luchese associates, Frank Francomano and his brother Carmine Francomano Jr., took bribes from builders and property owners, the indictment said. The two men “used their association with Cosa Nostra to further their criminal activity by instilling fear in victims” and paid their superiors in the crime family, said a statement by the district attorney’s office.