There’s something fitting about Kevin Michael Harley’s ill-fitting predicament. See, Police: Would-be Burglar Gets Stuck in Grease Vent .

Can’t say we haven’t been warned… Via Volokh.com: “Use of [Communist] Party Newspapers and Magazines as Toilet Paper is Strictly Forbidden.”

That’s the stuff: seventy-nine-year-old Margaret Street encountered a prairie rattlesnake, couldn’t find help to handle it, and so dispatched the reptile with an ice chopper. Although some rattlesnakes are endangered in Wisconsin, this was a prairie rattler, a non-native species that’s not endangered. See, Sheboygan Woman, 79, Kills Snake with Ice Chopper.

Next year…. See, Pig Wrestling Canceled After Porkers Elude Capture.

Where, indeed? Okay, where are all the UFO pictures? And the UFO videos? In recent years, the world has exploded with photographic and video equipment. There are about 5 billion cellphones in circulation throughout the world — many, if not most, equipped with still and/or video cameras. (The number of mobile broadband subscriptions will probably…

Too, too funny: A new study out this week finds McCain has the highest “digital IQ” of anyone in the Senate, for his especially competent use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the Web in general. Did no one bother to check if the study’s researchers were formerly writers for the Onion? Via Sen. John McCain…

A woman in a Saukville grocery’s express lane was ridiculed by a man for having more items than the stated limit of ten. In ridiculing her, he called her “fat” and “ugly.” (I’ve no idea what the woman looks like, but considering the man’s choice of insults one can guess she likely isn’t thin and…

In last Friday’s open comments forum, one of my commenters asked if marriage were a wholly private matter, whether that would allow polygamy. I think one would find few cases of polygamy in any event, as relationships of many are potentially less stable (with shifting alliances possible) than relationships between two. Nonetheless, the different relationship…

That’s a sensible result: Judge rules that defendant, Julio Martinez, can look foolish so long as he doesn’t offend public order and decency. Slovenly isn’t, and shouldn’t, be criminal. See, NYC Judge: Saggy Pants Foolish But Legal.

Teenagers on a mail delivery boat jump from boat to dock and back again to deliver mail to homes on Lake Geneva. See, “Wisconsin Teens Take Flying Leap to Deliver Mail”

There’s an odd story originally printed in the Idaho Mountain Express about a police dog named Dax that bit a schnauzer named Max. (I have written before about a biting police dog from Edgerton, Wisconsin, but that case was about serious injuries the dog inflicted on two people, one of whom was a police officer.)…

Wisconsin State Journal– Man Arrested for Gun Threat After Victim Refused to Have Drink.