A huge shocker broke early Tuesday morning as Fidel Castro announced his retirement as Cuba’s president and is expected to pass his power to his brother. Here is the BBC story:
Cuba’s ailing leader, Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma. […]

Most Overdue Death of the YearEvel KnievelWe kick off the 2007 ceremony with one of my favorite honors: the Most Overdue Death of the Year. This prize is given to the man or woman who died in the last year who should have died long, long before. Last year the honor went to […]

Last week they called Yi Jianlian “China’s Li,” (scroll down) this week it’s “Russia win 2014 Winter Games.” The headline kind of sounds like it is being said by a Russian. “Russia win Winter Game.” I know what they’re trying to say. The Black Sea town, Sochi was awarded the 2014 […]

Ya think? Wednesday, new facts emerged in the Virginia Tech massacre. First, in recent weeks, Cho was ordered to go to a psychiatric hospital for stalking two women at Virginia Tech. Cho was released from the hospital by a judge who ordered him to undergo outpatient treatment. The terms of his […]

Update, 11:00 p.m., Shanghai local time:
Contrary to a Tuesday Chicago Sun-Times report claiming the student who opened fire on a Virginia Tech school building was a Chinese national, it turns out the gunman was a 23-year-old south Korean immigrant named Cho Seung-Hui. According to a CNN story Tuesday, a doctor at a Blacksburg hospital […]

How’s this for a Shanghai-related story? The gunman who massacred 32 students at Virginia Tech University Monday was a 25-year-old Chinese national who entered the U.S. with a student visa issued in Shanghai, reported Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times. Reportedly, the shooter entered the U.S. on an August 7th United Airlines flight […]

Time and time again, writers talk about how when China sneezes, the world catches a cold. Well on Tuesday, China caught a cold and the world got Ebola. The Dow Jones crashing 416 points was the top story on all major U.S. news programs Tuesday. And the reason? China. So […]

I’m not exactly sure how I feel about posting this. The angel on my right shoulder is saying, “This is grotesque and you shouldn’t bring down your otherwise awesome website by posting an actual clip of a man hanging.” And then the devil on my left shoulder is saying, “Listen, MSNBC showed the […]

Flumesday has received word from the originator and lone determiner of the Death of the Year, located in the British West Indies. The 2006 Death of the Year is Saddam Hussein. And as the founder of the Death of the Year Award so wisely told me, “this is why you always wait […]

This time of year, those of us who read the news are bombarded with all sorts of top ten lists– short, simple written pieces that rank the importance of items within a certain group. For instance, one of my favorite lists around New Year’s time is the top ten inventions of the past year. […]