2010-03-14

• Pope Benedict XVI under fire for protecting a known pedophile priest: [1] (You know, the same thing that caused Boston's Cardinal O'Connor to resign and lose his chance to become Pope?) (Bonus – "We swear, this problem with church sex abuse isn't because of our vows of celibacy:" [2])
• Texas Board of Education wins its hard-fought battle to teach kids how the United States really was meant to be a Christian nation: [3]
• UK drinkers note – the government plans to lower the legal limit for drunk driving: [4]
• Kansas is the first state to ban K2, the artificial pot substitute…but they're already coming up with a substitute for the substitute: [5]
• …and my wife has a collection of several of these things: [6]
• FEMA has sold most of its 120,000 contaminated, unlivable Katrina-shelter trailers in a big auction: [7]
• You know that hate-crimes law designed to protect gays, which has all the churches up in arms? Oklahoma's Senate decides, "we'll just ignore this little ol' law:" [8]
• Argentina judge revokes the marriage of South America's first legally married same-sex couple: [9]
• Who's going to take away your guns? Not Obama, it's all the Jews' fault: [10]
• UFOs over Lake Erie: [11]
• Two UK government TV ads about climate change are banned for overstating the threat of global warming: [12]
• A convenient list of blogs that promote Holocaust denial: [13]
• Scientologists lash out against German TV movie…or is it a documentary?…about them: [14]
• On Satan’s trail with Don Gabriele, the world’s most famous exorcist: [15]
• Fake Russian invasion broadcast sparks Georgian panic: [16]
• Georgia (the one in the US this time) weighs up outlawing race-based abortions: [17]
• No wonder these pieces of art went for a high price at auction: [18]
• Not be outdone by Georgia, a North Carolina lawmaker declares herpes is spreading among blacks because they're more promiscuous: [19]
• Convicted sex offender sues for the right to continue to do door-to-door preaching as a Jehovah's Witness: [20]
• Tehran accuses US of launching "cyber war" against Iran: [21]
• Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls (again): [22]
• Remember, senior citizens can do anything them young 'uns can do: [23]
• Germany fights to keep secret Holocaust records secret after 50 years: [24]
• Malawi's crackdown on homosexuals: [25]
• The Westboro Baptist Church's fax-flooding campaign: [26]
• Brain-eating zombies invade Disney in plan to win boy fans: [27]
• Why we need religious cults: [28]
• Disquiet in Google's online library: [29]
• The Vatican aided in the escape of Nazi officers at the end of World War II: [30]
• China warns Google to comply with censorship laws: [31]
• Chicago cops' rulebook to get a makeover for the first time in 40 years: [32]
• Looking for the right one for you? Try psychic speed dating: [33]
• And finally…Happy Steak and Blowjob Day: [34]

Picture of the moment:

• Blood Falls in Antarctica, the waterfall that spews…[35]
• Airing on the National Geographic channel tonight – Sperm, The Movie: [36]
• Bizarre children's books about homosexuality: [37]