2009-11-20

• Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with the power to appoint militias and create laws: [1]
• The US Postal Service is scrapping its 55-year-long program of letting children send letters to Santa at the North Pole…to Protect The Children from pedophiles: [2]
• A blog written by a discouraged and depressed Scientologist about the evils of ANONYMOUS: [3] (Also: [4])
• Loving T-shirts that ask Christians to pray for President Obama: [5]
• Teacher busted for showing Kung Fu Hustle in class: [6]
• Philppines President signs the Anti-child Pornography act of 2009 into law, which officially classifies kiddie porn manga and anime as real kiddie porn: [7]
• Xbox 360 Left 4 Dead 2 leaked to torrent sites: [8] (Assassin's Creed 2, too: [9])
• Ric Flair leaves fellow wrestling legend Hulk Hogan a bloody mess as the pair kick off their tour of Australia: [10]
• YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers: [11]
• US residents fight for the right to hang laundry: [12]
• Kellogg's turns a breakdown at their waffle-making plant into a golden marketing opportunity – the Great Eggo Waffle Shortage: [13]
• Microsoft denies it built a "backdoor" in Windows 7: [14]
• Russian politician introduces a bill to remove God from the Russian national anthem: [15]
• Authorities in Orange County, New York try to force a local newspaper to reveal the identities of two people who posted anonymous comments to the paper's Web site: [16]
• Nigerian dad kills his two-year-old son because of a prophecy that the child was a wizard: [17]
• Brave Christians plan to defend Christmas from those evil atheists by staging a live Nativity scene on the steps of the United States Supreme Court: [18]
• How can the police raise money in these troubled times? Seize the private property of criminal suspects: [19]
• Peruvian gang murders people and sells their body fat on the black market for $60,000 a gallon: [20]
• Women turn to prostitution and blame it on global warming: [21]
• Britain is leading the world in an explosion of hermaphrodite babies: [22]
• Muslim countries (still) seek to ban blasphemy: [23]
• The EU elects its very first President, and people are less than impressed: [24]
• Customs agents seize 316,000 bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments: [25] (I guess this is part of the War on Christmas?)
• Austria to allow civil partnerships for gays: [26]
• United Arab Emirates to ban plastic bags: [27]
• Kimbrough Middle School in Mesquite, Texas bans schoolkids from wearing skinny jeans: [28]
• The Ku Klux Klan rallies to protest Mississippi college from banning the song "From Dixie With Love:" [29]
• New Jersey teenager sues her school after she is forbidden from participating in a day of silent protest against abortion: [30]

Picture of the moment:

• Tokyo introduces the least sexy and most frightening fembot ever: [31]
• A whole lotta creepy Twilight swag in one convenient link: [32]