Chewbacca Throws Out First Pitch

Chewbacca throws out the first pitch
I can’t make this up:

An actor playing Chewbacca throws out the ceremonial first pitch prior to a game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday Sept. 28, 2005. Chewbacca and an actress playing Princess Leia were promoting the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston.

Weather Wars?!

USA Today reports that

Idaho weatherman [Scott Stevens] says Japan’s Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack — and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.

Despite this somewhat, um, unusual belief, Stevens’ station manager claims that “He doesn’t talk about it on his weathercast… He’s very knowledgeable about weather, and he’s very popular.”

Stevens’ website Weather Wars has a lot more about “weather machines” and some other topics that are equally out there…