Imagine minding your own business, just out fishing in the ocean, when you see a horse swim by. Curious, you follow it, as it swims the several miles back to shore, and then runs off. You have no idea where it came from or where it went.

This actually happened. (Reportedly.)

It’s Monday. I feel like the horse on Mondays. Out in the ocean, miles from land, no idea where I came from. Hopefully I’ll reach the beach eventually.

Photo from The Big Ugly, by Lauralyn Wilkins.
Webcomic is Savage Chickens by Doug Savage.

Apparently, in the United States, you do not have to buy medical insurance, despite the existence of “Obamacare” and what you have heard in the press. Instead, you can sign up to a Christian Medical Ministry.

If you’re asking what?, you’re thinking what I was thinking.

A Christian Medical Ministry is a Christian organization in which each member contributes a monthly amount (lets call it a “premium”) to help cover the medical needs of everybody in the ministry.

This probably sounds like insurance — but that’s where you would be wrong. Insurance would then cover your medical costs, when they arrive. A Christian Medical Ministry does not make any such promises. They only accept your premiums. Oh — and pray for you! That’s important, right?

Here at the Big Bad Blog, we are amazed to learn that there are people who fall for these scams.

Photo of wreck at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France. October 22nd, 1895. By Studio Lévy & fils. Via ck/ck.
Webcomic is Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North.

Goodbye, Hummer. I have no idea why people ever bought Hummers in the first place. Now I will no longer have to.

(by illurama)

Toyotas have this problem with acceleration — they do so randomly, and nobody knows why. Figure it out, and you can earn yourself $1 million.

In California, if you save water by removing your lawn, you can go to jail for six months.