Augmented Reality Gets Too Real

Once upon a time, gods and angels came unto the people in the night and had their way with them.  Later, demonic succubi and incubi were the culprits.  More recently, sinister alien Reptilians and butt-probing Greys did the deed.  Today, these strange hauntings have adapted to the shifting zeitgeist, and a woman in Moscow claims to have been raped by a Pokemon.

German Man May Be Prosecuted For Insulting Racist Murderer

Munich resident Thomas Salbey is facing possible charges for calling Ali Sonboly, the Munich shooter, a wanker.  Charges could include "insults to the detriment of the dead," not inclusive of the nine people Sonboly killed.

Gender Disparity in Sentencing Benefits Transsexual

Caitlyn Jenner may keep the gold medal she earned in the men's decathlon, but Gina Owen will not be held accountable for her sexual crimes as a man, because "she was literally a different person when she committed these offences."

Germany Still Waiting For Economic Miracle

So far, the hope that the importation of a million untrained and illiterate Third Worlders would produce a wirtschaftswunder (on par with the German people's recovery from the Second World War) has not yet come to pass.

Counter-Terrorism Officials Mystified

With four attacks in southern Germany coming shortly after the mass murder of 84 people in Nice, counter-terrorism officials are struggling to detect a common thread. Is there a single, defining feature to these attacks that could offer clues on how to prevent more of them from happening?

The Robot Butler Did It!

The good news is that the near future is going to see some rapid, revolutionary changes that could dramatically enhance our lives. The bad news is that the technologies pitched to “become successful and transformative” in the next decade or so are extremely vulnerable to all sorts of back-door, front-door, and side-door compromises.

The Increasingly Problematic Coneheads of Peru

The two-thousand-year-old elongated skulls of Paracas, Peru have been proven by DNA testing to belong to aliens--they're European.