War games
NORAD, the military organization that watches for intrusions into U.S. and Canadian airspace, has developed a smartphone app for tracking Santa on Christmas Eve.
Let’s just hope that some smart-aleck programmer didn’t code in an Easter egg that, if activated, launches global thermonuclear war.
I put a spell on you: Angered by budget cuts in their department, two municipal workers in North Miami Beach, Fla., allegedly tried to cast a spell on their boss by scattering birdseed in his office.
Luckily for the boss, the spell was foiled by an elaborate cleansing ritual involving a janitor and a vacuum cleaner.
New directions: Herald Movie Critic Robert Horton describes a new Russian film called “Hipsters” as “Glee” goes to communist 1950s Moscow.
In it, conniving cheerleading commissar Sveta Seryeshka sabotages the glee club’s chances of placing first at sectionals by ordering its members arrested, convicted in a show trial of crimes against the state, deported and exiled to a labor camp in Siberia.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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