2010-02-08

• Some hard questions about Alex Jones: [1]
• Another call to help out Wikileaks: [2]
• Singing Frank Sinatra's "My Way" in a karaoke bar can literally put your life at risk: [3]
• Abandoned Soviet ghost town sold at auction for $3.1 million: [4]
• China's biggest hacker training site is shut down: [5]
• Amazon gives in and will charge higher prices for e-books: [6]
• Proof of Christian persecution in the United States – street preachers killed left and right: [7]
• In secret, nations of the world work towards a global crackdown on piracy: [8]
• Former brothel queen enters the race for Governor of New York: [9]
• French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls the Islamic burqa a security risk, because people can use them to commit bank robberies: [10]
• Pakistani lawyers will burn alive anyone who tries to prosecute a fellow lawyer who raped and murdered a 12 year old girl: [11]
• Mohawk tribe in Montreal bans mixed-race marriage, in an effort to keep their racial heritage pure…now, where have we heard that before? [12]
• Hair extensions cause hair loss: [13]
• If you're convicted for possessing kiddie porn, you could end up paying damages to the kids abused when the porn was made…even if it happened years or decades ago: [14]
• Another Saudi senior citizen taking a 12-year-old child bride: [15]
• Chicago school district shocked that kids actually say things like, "that's so gay:" [16]
• Gay Indians (that's in India, not America) get their own Valentine cards: [17]
• China's dog farmers protest the country's new ban on dog and cat meat: [18]
• You can legally drive without a license in this South African district: [19]
• Indian government hopes to ban witchcraft: [20]
• And another story on the dangers of witchcraft: [21]
• Australian TV network ITV is fined (barely) after a reality-show contestant kills and eats a rat: [22]
• Christians sue for the right to commit hate crimes against Those Godless Homosexuals: [23]
• Patient in vegetative state answers questions using thoughts alone: [24]
• A federal effort to push junk food out of schools: [25]
• YouTube banned in Libya: [26]
• …and in Pakistan, too: [27]
• Mom charged in son's death points to devil worshippers: [28]

Audio plug:

• PR Gnus of the World by Rev. Fernandinande Lemur: [29] (Once you hear this, you'll never hear NPR the same way again. Please post a review!)

Picture of the moment:

• Some amazing emergency maneuvering: [30]