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Zimbabwe, facing severe shortages of both food and laborers to work farmland seized by the government, is reportedly considering an unlikely program to bring foreign visitors to the country. A November article in a state-controlled newspaper outlined the “Obesity Tourism Strategy,” in which overweight vacationers (in particular Americans, who according to the article spend $6 billion a year on “useless” dieting aids) would be encouraged to come to Zimbabwe and “provide labor for farms in the hope of shedding weight.”
In November the Amazing Kreskin, long billed as “the world’s foremost mentalist,” offered his mind-reading services to help his home state, New Jersey, fight corruption. In a letter to acting governor Richard Codey, Kreskin volunteered to sit in on government meetings and identify any officials that are secretly up to no good.
Recurring Themes
From the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Daily, December 2: “On Tuesday, University police took a report from a man complaining that the word ‘loser’ was written in the dirt on his car’s rear bumper.”
