And now for something completely different: a local television meteorologist who thinks that hurricanes are being created by the Yakuza as revenge for Hiroshima.

And now for something completely different: a local television meteorologist who thinks that hurricanes are being created by the Yakuza as revenge for Hiroshima.

And in other news (and more trivial news, in the context of the unfolding catastrophe in Louisiana) Tom Cruise seems to have gone completely nuts, claiming tht he’s led past lives (this one apparently sucks in comparison). And he’s just asking for a libel suit from Brooke Shields:

…at his news conference, a Scientology-themed event with selected reporters from his fan club’s newsletter, he claimed that Brooke was the lover of the founder of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, in a previous life.

He said: “I could tell you stories about Brooke.

“She was the mistress of Sigmund Freud, you know. Is it any wonder she promotes his discredited theories? She’s so confused.”

[Update on Wednesday morning]

There seems to be a consensus in comments that this story is a hoax. And it’s a good one, because it’s not all that unbelievable, based on his past behavior.

It’s a mystery in Cinci.

Charles Lurio writes that they’ve apparently cloned Yasser Arafat:

Clearly the Islamo-fascists have a new weapon: cloning with quick forced fetus development. Take a look at the guy in the lower right of this pic from a NYTimes article on p3 yesterday about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

On the one hand they did improve him a bit: he’s not bald, as Arafat was under his kaffiyah. On the other, he’s clearly grown old too quickly once out of the womb, no doubt because they couldn’t turn off the accelerated development gene.

Or maybe it’s genetic damage from the laser poisoning.

Only the seriously demented Iowahawk could come up with this concept, let alone execute it.

Here’s a modern tale of hot swanny love. Well, at least they’re living in a state where they can get married.

An Italian woman was killed by a crucifix.

Sexing turkeys.

Sexing turkeys.