Eliot Angstead's Xomblurbs

When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field -- coming to rest right next to a sign reading, "Jesus is Lord."

In my everlasting love affair with the British media (American news sources are so tiresome) I come across this gem where you get to look at pictures of celebrities' booties and guess which celebrity they belong to.

That pretty much says it all, doesn't it? Here's a pretty good video with the tearful admission and then a panel discussion.

It was not something so common as government that our forefathers wanted or fought the Revolutionary War for. It was not something so common as government that so many young men through the intervening centuries signed up to fight and give their lives for. In fact, for all these heroes it was something quite the opposite.

In this article from a Korean source (there are lots of articles on this. I picked this one because of its flawless Chinglish), we are reminded of the billions...

According to Census Bureau figures quoted in the article above, the percentage of non-Hispanic whites in Dade county is currently at 18.5%, and this number is quickly dwindling as it becomes more difficult to work, shop and play in an area where English is no longer the primary language of the majority of residents. For many of the 58.4% of residents who speak Spanish, it is the primary or only language they speak.

I bet you stopped at the gas station today and thought, "Gee, now would be a great time to fight carbon emissions by increasing the costs of fossil fuels." Or maybe you stopped in a grocery store and thought, "Gee, I wish we could make it harder on food producers and transporters so that our grocery bills would get higher."

One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.

Link contains photos.

Islanders on Phu Quoc, close to the coast of Cambodia, heard a loud bang and saw shards of metal up to 5ft-long raining down on them on Tuesday morning.

Link includes photos.

A conservative take on today's news.