It’s time for all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s time for the Not News of the Week.

Today’s only in America story: A Washington man ordered a flat-screen TV on Amazon.com and was surprised to receive a semi-automatic assault rifle instead. The TV was purchased from a third-party seller through Amazon but the man ended up with a military-style SIG Sauer SIG716 assault rifle that was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop instead. He couldn’t even return the gun because to Amazon because it was illegal for the man to actually possess that weapon or transport it by car in DC. Yes, only in America is it that easy to buy a high-powered killing machine. Continue reading →

It’s time for another edition of the weirdest and wackiest stories from around the world. It’s time for the not news of the week.

The Republicans might be complaining about the new law stating that health insurance providers must pay for contraception but they wouldn’t if they saw this story from Arizona. When a bull is in the mood for some loving, there’s nothing you can do to stop him. A bull being led across a field decided it was in a romantic mood. The bull chased its handler and pinned the man against a police cruiser where it tried to mate with him. The man got away without having to make a walk of shame but the mounted police car received some minor damage. So maybe contraception isn’t as great an evil as the Republicans and the religious right want you to believe. Continue reading →

If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the Not News of the Week.

A Houston woman got into a car crash with a bus while driving her three kids. When she got out of her car, it wasn’t to find help. She was getting ice cream from the nearby CVS Pharmacy. If that wasn’t enough to cool her down, she also stripped while eating the ice cream. For her trouble, the woman was charged with child endangerment. I hope she tries to defend herself on the grounds of it being 91+ degrees that day. Continue reading →