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24 Nov 2010 13:49

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World: Normal day: Vladimir Putin, Leonardo DiCaprio talk about tigers

  • To the left: The Russian Prime Minister, a man for whom absurdism doesn’t exist. To the right: The dude from “Inception,” who the man on the left calls “a real man.” They’re talking about, of all things, saving wild tigers. The guy on the right donated $1 million of his own money to saving wild tigers. Meanwhile, unintentional comedy continues unabated. source

10 Feb 2010 10:11

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World: The WWF (not the WWE) wants you to save the wild tigers

  • 100,000 number of wild tigers back in the heady days of 1990
  • 3,200 tigers are left in the wild today; three sub-species are extinct source

09 Sep 2009 10:14

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World: India has a lot of tigers, and they kill a lot of cows

  • 1,300 or half the world’s wild tigers, live in India source