In researching for this blog, I often come across some ridiculous news, pictures and videos. If they were all on this blog, you’d be reading for days, but I filter out the junk for the creme of the crop type stuff.

This man, “Big Mike” Lapointe was released from Canadian prison after it was decided he was too big for his cell.

Lapointe described his time in prison as “a living hell,” CTV Montreals’s Annie Demelt said.

He said he could not take a proper shower and he had trouble sleeping because his body protruded about six inches off each side of his bed.

More fun links after the jump.

Moving onward, though Obama has won the election and is transitioning into his position as leader of the free world, there’s still plenty of political fervor in the news, and this drawing:

Click on for more.

Rounding it out. This art is not Canadian, obese, or political, just awesome.

That piece is part of the Illustrative Zurich, which apparently just ended.