Usually when someone wants to commit armed robbery, he'll bring along a weapon that combines stealth, convenience and anonymity -- a small gun, for instance. Not so one enterprising Colorado Springs man, who this week brazenly robbed one area 7-Eleven store (and tried to knock over a second) armed only with a bat'leth, broadsword bringer of pain and standard weapon of choice for many an honorable Klingon.
The bat'leth bandit, as he's quickly become known, broke the warrior's code by using the
The January 2008 Message column "No Chubbies? Fat Chance" spotlighted Michael Karolchyk (pictured), owner of the Anti-Gym, a workout joint that used tough hate, as opposed to tough love, to get customers to drop pounds. Sample technique: tossing cupcakes at so-called "chubbies" allegedly not working hard enough to sweat off the flab. In the piece, Karolchyk ripped assorted media organizations, including Channel 4, that he accused of being too wimpy to broadcast his envelope-pushing ads, and co
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Neil Cavuto quizzes Michael Karolchyk earlier this month.
Entrepreneur Michael Karolchyk's Anti-Gym, a fitness center he promoted via willfully offensive ads (get details in our 2008 profile, "No Chubbies? Fat Chance"), was shuttered earlier this year by the IRS -- but that hasn't stopped Mr. K from promoting himself via the discredited venue. Earlier this month, he got national face time courtesy of Fox News' Neil Cavuto, who interviewed the self-described "CEO of the Anti-Gym revolution" abou
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Only in the Bizarro World of Fox News would Michael Karolchyk -- the tax-dodging misogynist behind the Anti-Gym -- qualify as a reliable expert on anything, let alone the president's pick for a new surgeon general.
But the cable-news channel went ahead and invited him anyway, so he could do exactly what he always does: Make an ass of himself. Watch the video above to see him call the president's pick, Regina Benjamin, "fat" and "lazy" and to question her life choices, despite his apparent lac
