2008-11-19

• Grand jury in South Texas indicts Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales for "organized criminal activity:" [1]
• A massive DNA database on terrorists (and others?) is being compiled by the US military, but it has delays due to bungling: [2]
• Some toys with banned plastics will not be taken off the market: [3]
• The case of the crucified squirrel: [4]
• Toronto zoo wants to turn poo into energy: [5]
• Free money to be given to shoppers by Taiwanese government: [6]
• Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario hires students to patrol the hallways and stop people from talking about bad things: [7]
• In order to keep the grant money flowing, scientists censor their own research into controversial topics: [8]
• Srizbi botnet (which controls 450,000 PCs worldwide) flounders after McColo shutdown: [9]
• Russian atheists unite with pagans and prostitution advocates online: [10]
• US court halts sale of spyware program: [11]
• The election is over, but the smear campaigns haven't ended: [12]
• Indian bloggers don't like censorship, either: [13]
• Tennessee anti-file-sharing law to cost colleges over $13 million: [14]
• UK government unveils plan for sex trade crackdown: [15]
• Newsweek takes a hard-hitting look at the important question, "Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ?" [16]
• Arkansas authorities seize 21 more kids from Tony Alamo's group: [17]
• Colorado mom's blog post derails Motrin's national ad campaign: [18]
• Don't moon your sister-in-law, or else you'll end up a registered sex offender: [19]
• This guy really loves his pussy: [20]
• It's official – Adolf Hitler really did have only one ball: [21]
• Israel is using remote-control machine guns to secure its borders: [22]
• Aussie authorities offer $30,000 reward to report child molesters: [23]
• Westboro Baptist Church to protest transgendered mayor of Silverton, Oregon: [24]
• India school to give lessons in witchcraft (to combat hysteria over "witches"): [25]

Audio of the moment:

• The Jonestown death tape: [26] (Beware – this is audio of the actual mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. Do not listen if you do not want to be upset, offended, shocked, or disturbed.)