Isn't real life getting increasingly like a Frank Miller comic?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0416swatmonkey16-ON.html

He doesn't factor in the element of surprise, but this article, entitled "A Realistic Assessment Of How Many 12-Year-Olds I Could Beat Up Before They Overtook Me" is probably the best work on the subject so far.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/4/8schweiger.html

First, I didn't know there were such things as water-slide catalogs. Second, well...

http://www.china-inflatables.com.cn/products/slides/T8-136.htm

(via 'Boing Boing'...and yes, it's the Titanic)

Here's the link...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=17&u=/nm/safrica_chimp_dc


...and here's my question. Does the ape know how to make fire? I mean, THAT'S the news story!