Chew on this, but not in Singapore

It’s been a slow week for stupidity worldwide, with the usual assortment of dumb stories having been shoved from the headlines by earthquakes in Chile and Taiwan, killer waves in the Mediterranean and the never-ending debate on health care reform. Actually, check that. Health care reform and the nothing being done about it may be the stupidest story of them all, but it’s just not funny.

Don’t get me wrong; there were people doing stupid things this week — 63 worshippers were killed in India when a stampede broke out at a temple giving away free food — but poking fun at dead people could be considered distasteful, Read More »

When Lake Titicaca is not enough

In the history of great ideas, this just might be the greatest: Three Chilean architects have proposed building a tunnel under Chile linking Bolivia to the Pacific Ocean. By doing so, the architects hope, the two South American nations can finally put to rest a dispute that has festered since Chile defeated Bolivia in the Pacific War of 1879.

Bolivia, it seems, has had a wicked case of coast envy for the last 130 years Read More »