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The "collecting plastic water bottle caps for charity" misunderstanding strikes again, this time at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

cachinnate: to laugh loudly or immoderately.

Case example: Information is useless to those determined not to read it.

Was the Allman Brothers' album title 'Eat a Peach' a reference to Duane Allman's fatal motorcycle accident?

Was the Pentagon built with extra bathrooms to accommodate racial segregation laws?

Do CFL bulbs pose a significant fire risk with ordinary use?

Did a pact with the devil to save a cancer-stricken child result in creation of the Hello Kitty brand?

Collection purportedly reproduces jokes about Democratic politicians by Don Rickles.

E-mail warns that a child injured his arm through extended wearing of Silly Bandz.

Virus warning: 'New Gifts for You'

Newt Gingrich issued a statement condemning the building of the Cordoba House community center in Manhattan.

Are thieves handing out key rings at gas stations that enable them to track potential victims?

Photograph purportedly shows a circular bridge.

Is the word 'cabal' an acronym formed from the names of five ministers to Charles II?

Update: Sam Bish, a 9-year-old boy who was battling cancer, has passed away.

Motorist mistakes a Dustbuster vacuum cleaner for a Fuzzbuster radar detection device.

Photographs purportedly show a cache of weapons confiscated from a site on the Arizona border.

Did an overheated laptop used in a bed result in a fatal house fire?

Is the father of Chelsea Clinton's husband a former congressman who pled guilty to fraud charges?

Photographs purportedly show a black white-tailed deer fawn.

A pranking radio DJ prompts a startling admission from his joke's intended victim.

Did Aerosmith once decide to play their set list in reverse, then opened with their encore and walked off the stage?

Did Mexican legislators express concern that an Arizona law would prompt an influx of Mexicans into Sonora from Arizona?

Prayer request: A 22-month-old boy is purportedly in critical condition after shooting himself with a nail gun.

Was a Home Depot employee fired after refusing to remove a patriotic button from his work apron?

Did a pizza delivery man play the piano part on the Bachman-Turner Overdrive hit "Takin' Care of Business"?

About-to-be-divorced wife asks husband to carry her over the threshold every day for a month.

Does this month have a quality that occurs only once every eight centuries?

Rumor: An animal shelter will soon be closing or moving and will euthanize all the animals that have not been adopted.

Did President Obama nominate Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court as a reward for her help in getting nine challenges to his eligibility dismissed?

'Black in the White House' computer virus warning: real or hoax?

Did President Obama change the decor in the Oval Office from a red, white, and blue color scheme to a 'Middle Eastern' one?

Video clip purportedly captures Barack Obama "lying" about his father's military service.

Is bat guano used in the manufacture of mascara?

Update: Are criminals in the U.S. using burundanga-soaked business cards to incapacitate their victims?

Is the venomous 'two-striped telamonia' spider lurking beneath toilet seats in public restrooms?

Did Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona ask Gen. David Petraeus what he was 'doing to reduce carbon emissions in the war on terror'?

Is the U.S. government proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or banking transactions?

Photographs purportedly show a "fire waterfall" at Yosemite National Park.

Is Wal-Mart trying out products embedded with RFID tracking chips?

Math puzzler: Dollar disappears during motel transaction.

Are state police about to launch a 30-day "Operation Yellowjacket" speeding crackdown in your area?

Photographs purportedly show a toppled crane which fell through the first floor of a building under construction.

Photograph purportedly shows a Houston store closed on September 11 to honor an Islamic martyr.

Photographs purportedly show Muslims praying in the streets of New York City.

Did Johns Hopkins issue a 'cancer update' about the spread and treatment of cancer?

Did the Obamas have their dog, Bo, flown on his own airplane to join them on vacation in Maine?

Photograph purportedly shows Barack Obama carrying the book The Post-American World, "a Muslim's view of a defeated America."

Does the U.S. government provide a much greater monthly allowance to refugees than to retirees?

Image purportedly shows a Humble Oil "melting glacier" advertisement from 1962.

Photographs purportedly show an airliner with a 'Flying 101' exterior design.

Child's drawing depicts mom as a pole dancer when in reality she was a Home Depot employee trying to sell a shovel.

Do hospital mortality rates go up in July due to influx of inexperienced doctors?

A sardonic comment on Iraqi prisoner abuse is attributed to hockey commentator Don Cherry.

Photographs purportedly show a 15-foot diamondback rattlesnake captured in Florida.

Account describes the efforts of Audie Murphy's widow on behalf of patients at a Veterans Administration hospital.

Does the U.S. military award 'Courageous Restraint Medals' to soldiers who refrain from firing their weapons?

Can a form of malware be activated by prompting Internet Explorer users to press the F1 key?

What Joe Biden once said he'd do to the "next person that tells me I'm not religious."

Essay outlines the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Warning about Illinois using photo radar in freeway work zones.