The High Weirdness Project: 2008-11-17

The Pirate Bay continues to thumb its nose in the face of the record and movie industries: [1]
There are about 27 million human slaves in the world today: [2]
Stone Age temple may be the birthplace of civilization: [3]
Wisconsin cult leader arrested on federal charges: [4]
After banning YouTube, the US military stats its own video-sharing Web site called TroopTube: [5]
MILF restores defaced Web site (not what you might think): [6]
Here's one I bet you don't have in your "American-backed death squads trading cards" set: [7]
44 years after the JFK assassination, one of Lee Harvey Oswald's co-workers suddenly decides to get some attention: [8]
Batman sues Batman: [9]
Opponents of Australia's new Internet censorship form their own lobbying coalition called The Sex Party: [10]
MySpace sex offender charged with running fake Internet church: [11]
Atlantic City lifts its smoking ban in casinos in an attempt to bring in more gamblers: [12]
Battle between hospital and religious family over brain-dead 12-year-old boy on life support has ended, because the boy is now dead: [13]
Medical specialists cautiously review the report of AIDS being cured with bone marrow transplant: [14]
Buy a pack of Christmas lights for $10 and decorate a cross for yard…or you can buy one right from the American Family Association for only $81: [15] (Oh wait, that's just a "suggested donation.")
The BBC's expose of "child witches" in Nigeria is having a big impact there: [16] and [17]
Des Moines, Iowa is the site of the latest attempt to block that awful, dangerous children's book And Tango Makes Three: [18]
UK government sends FBI agents to investigate a record number of UFO sightings: [19]
Christians urged to boycott retailers who ban Christmas: [20]
Aborigines outraged at Victoria (Australia) plan to rename Mount Niggerhead, a mountain in Alpine National Park: [21]
Former Marine reveals military dossiers kept on Muslims and Arabs living in Los Angeles: [22]