2009-07-05

• X-Day: the world ends at precisely 7:00 AM on the morning of July 5th: [1]

2009-07-01 to 07-04

The Bulldada Newsblog is on hiatus until July 5th, as I am embarking on the sacred SubGenius pilgrimage to X-Day. The next newsblog update will take place on the Escape Vessels of the Sex Goddesses!

Praise "Bob!"

– Reverend Modemac, July 1, 2009

2009-06-30

• Of swastikas and Supermen: [1]
• Pope Benedict XVI declares the bones of Saint Paul himself have been discovered: [2]
• NASA finds missing Moon landing tapes: [3]
• Wal-mart legally kills off Canadian unions: [4]
• 1 in 25 deaths worldwide are directly attributable to alcohol: [5]
• Youngsters these days are a lot more casual about porn than their parents: [6]
• Aussie coroner wants cult graffiti website closed: [7]
• Calgary, Alberta newspapers reject ads opposing local calf-roping event: [8]
• On the other hand, a Canadian anti-censorship package is a hit with Iranians: [9]
• Sirria Leone: Over 5,000 witches disempowered as Herbalist says, "misbehaving corpse was underworld Queen:" [10]
• US Supreme Court declares white guys can be discriminated against, too: [11]
• The sex capital of the United States – Houston, Texas: [12]
• US declares war on extaterrestrials: [13]
• Kenyan forces again accused of torture and rape: [14]
• Televangelist David Cerullo is building a $4 million home in South Carolina: [15]
• Accused white supremacist admits he told his children races shouldn't mix: [16] (What, you'd expect otherwise from a racist idiot?)
• Comprehensive and groundbreaking study reveals the dordid truth – many women use vibrators: [17]
• Iran's Holocaust-denying President lashes out at Western bigots: [18]
• Not only is Spanish Francisco Franco still dead, they've finally stripped him of his honorary titles: [19]
• You know that hooker you paid for sex? She might not be the best person to confess a murder to: [20]
• Guy hooks up with a 13-year-old girl over the Internet – not for sex, but something even stranger: [21]
• How God converted an atheist: [22]
• How Facebook plans to take over the Internet: [23]
• Anarchist book fair in Providence, Rhode Island on August 15th: [24]

2009-06-29

• VideoBay, Pirate Bay's censor-free YouTube sails into beta extreme: [1]
• Rapist makes money selling sorded handwritten stories of his crimes: [2]
• Two-thirds of Muslim marriages in Britain aren't being registered with the state: [3]
• Troops arrest Honduras' President: [4]
• A surprising number of teens think they'll die early: [5]
• Wikipedia's efforts to block news of journalist kidnapped by the Taliban: [6]
• Pope Benedict XVI's new Papal encyclical (official declaration) is late because the writers are havibng difficulty translating "tax haven" and "market value" into Latin: [7]
• And as we all know, Michael Jackson is in Hell: [8]
• I wonder what to happen to the good ol "middle way of the Buddha:" [9]
• It's now legal to catch a raindrop in Colorado: [10]
• Map of elephant DNA reveals trail of ivory smugglers: [11]
• UK Catholic school bans Muslim girls from wearing face veils during official visit: [12]
• Mix-up at UK's Royal Mint creates instant collector's item coins: [13]
• Ummm, maybe it's not such a good idea to have swine flu parties for kids to pass around the flu: [14]
• Arrest, censorship and media manipulation in Myanmar (remember Myanmar?): [15]
• Alabama continues its vibrator ban in praise of decency: [16]
• Bavaria to publish a new edition of Mein Kampf: [17]
• Iranian government is blocking all online activity except gaming: [18]
• India's gays prepare to join the rainbow nation: [19]
• Orlando's religious theme park, Holy Land Experience, is going to have one day of admission each year (though they don't want you to know exactly when that day will be): [20]
• Scientology's sexy new ad campaign: [21]
• Political correctness results in UK school having one of the world's longest, and worst, names: [22]
• A wheelchair steered by brain waves: [23]

Picture of the moment:

• Bon Jovi and Iranian superstar Andy Madadian singing "Stand By Me:" [24]

2009-06-28

• Authoritarian regimes censor news from Iran: [1]
• Canadian Supreme Court says law imposing medical treatment over minor's objection is Constitutional: [2]
• By the way, this video featuring Bob Dean is probably a violation of copyright: [3]
• PETA targets Sea World (again) after dolphin's death: [4]
• Welcome to Camp Dawkins, the UK's first atheist summer camp: [5] (See also: Camp Quest)
• The origins of curse words: [6]
• Thousands of hardcore religious nuts riot because a parking lot in Israel dares to open on Saturday: [7]
• Court ban over eight-year-old stripper overturned: [8] (It's not quite what you might think…)
• Brigham Young University lifts its three-year-old ban on YouTube: [9]
• Gay pride festival kicks off – in New Delhi: [10]
• Meanwhile, Scottish gay activists are arrested over offensive signs and T-shirts: [11]
• The only businesses lobbying to pay more taxes are Nevada's legal brothels: [12]
• Political talking heads whine about those mean liberals who "coarsen" politics by talking about sex affairs: [13]
• "I don't remember breaking into her house and having sex with her, but if my DNA is there – I know all about science – I must have done it." [14]
• Who needs to win the lottery – just have an affair with your schoolteacher, then after you grow up sue the school district: [15]
• How to save the newspapers – outlaw what I'm doing with this link right here: [16]
• The top ten dumbest infomercials: [17]
• Parents have a new tool to force their kids away from the video games: [18]
• Breakaway Roman Catholic sect defies Pope Benedict XVI by ordaining three priests in his home region of southern Germany: [19]
• The Family is working to distance itself from its image as a sex cult: [20]

Picture of the moment:

• X-Day warning – "A Message To The Men From Planet X:" [21]
• Marching against "Islamic extremism" apparently means making football chants in the street: [22]

2009-06-27

• Rev. Phineas Narco's National Cynical Network does a live streaming show entitled "Deconstructing Jacko" tonight at 10:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM PST: [1]
• Allah, Jesus, the Elohim, and Satan fight over Michael Jackson's soul: [2]
• FBI has decided to rely upon the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) as its official point of contact with the American Muslim community: [3]
• Limbaugh blames Sanford's affair on Obama, because why not? [4]
• Kenya is shaken by an ongoing proposal to create a separate religious court system for Muslims: [5]
• Iranian cleric urges executing protesters: [6]
• India bans toon porn site: [7]
• Indiana bus system bans ads promotiong religion (and atheism): [8]
• Oslo gay animal show draws crowds: [9]
• Apple confirms it banned iPhone porn app [10]
• UK Police warned not to abuse anti- terror law to stop photographers taking pictures of them: [11]
• Anne Coulter considers the murder of abortion doc George Tiller a "termination," not a "murder:" [12]
• Prostitution is now officially legal in Taiwan: [13]
• Department Of Justice further delays release of key torture report: [14]
• John Lennon's secret pact with Satan: [15]
• How paganism is going mainstream: [16]
• Kids forced to dig for diamonds in Zimbabwe: [17]
• Duke University official arrested for offering his five year old son for sex over the Internet: [18] (Naturally, Fark is going crazy with this one…)
• The coolest name for a sex offender you'll see all day: [19]
• Sri Lanka arrests astrologer for predicting its president's fall: [20]
• Facebook unplugs racial hate group: [21]

Picture of the moment:

• Don't fall asleep around this guy: [22]
• An amazing neon light electric car on eBay: [23]

2009-06-26

• UK Ministry of Defence blocks Wikileaks: [1]
• Second Life and other online games are now banned in Australia: [2]
• US Supreme Court declares the obvious – it's illegal to strip-search a 13-year-old schoolgirl to look for over-the-counter medications in her possession: [3]
• The Ark of the Covenant will be opened to the public today: [4] (Remember – shut your eyes, don't look at it…)
• Google-vs.-China persists as China moves to ban Web sites about "sexual health:" [5]
• US Army blocks a reporter for its own newspaper, the Stars and Stripes: [6]
• Tennessee man uses his computer to put faces of young girls onto pictures of naked adult women…and is charged with "sexual exploitation of a minor:" [7]
• College students buy sensitive US defense data for $40 in Africa: [8]
• Facebook conspiracy theory – warn users of malware on Facebook and get banned: [9]
• Apple servers crash from demand for iPhone porn app: [10]
• Marilyn Manson finds that record companies don't like it if you title one of your songs, "Pretty As A Swastika:" [11]
• American users of the Chinese version of Microsoft's Bing find it censored, just like China: [12]
• Germany's highest court upholds a ban on words linked to the Nazis: [13]
• PepsiCo embraces homosexuality: [14]
• FDA approves a generic version of Plan B contraceptive: [15]
• Witch lynchings in Kenya: [16]
• Thailand paints elephants to look like pandas: [17]
• Stoned wallabies make crop circles: [18]
• Israeli firms accused of profiting from the Holocaust: [19]
• Virginia upholds ban on partial-birth abortions: [20] (Complete with a gruesome picture of how partial-birth abortions are done, too….)
• Hundreds of Iranians defy ban and hold a gravesite tribute to protest martyr Neda Agha-Soltan: [21] (By the way, her family has been forced out of their home: [22])
• eBay stops a man from auctioning his wife's ashes: [23]
• Teenage strippers sue the city of Atlanta for the right to strip: [24]
• The battle to ban the burqa: [25]
• GQ magazine finds its nude cover photo censored by news vendors: [26]
• The food industry's darkest secrets: [27]
• Worm porn: [28]
• Evidently it's not a good idea to bind a woman in shackles as she's giving birth: [29]

2009-06-25

• Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issues an order establishing a command that will defend military networks against computer attacks and develop offensive cyber-weapons: [1] ("Offensive cyber-weapons?")
• J.R. "Bob" Dobbs works in mysterious ways: [2]
• Christians frustrated with America's lack of morals will hold a protest march in Boca Raton, Florida on July 4th – the day before X-Day: [3]
• Cyber-Scare – the exaggerated fears over digital warfare: [4]
• Iraq declares a national holiday to mark the US pullout: [5]
• The newswires are going nuts over the homosexual exorcism video that we linked last week: [6] (See: 2009-06-19)
• Suddenly, all of google.com is banned in China – except for google.cn: [7]
• The kid in that exorcism video should be glad he isn't epileptic: [8]
• Australia wants to censor online games: [9]
• Japan isn't only banning "rape" video games…they're banning a lot of other stuff, too: [10]
• Chinese TV station staff suspended for failing to censor politically sensitive information: [11]
• New batch of Nixon tapes released: [12]
• Pro-Iranian regime hackers invade Oregon computers: [13]
• And here's an Iranian Web site that seeks to expose and report protesters to the Iranian government: [14]
• Fury as Apple allows teenagers to buy porn for their iPhones: [15]
• UK schools expel four-year-olds for inappropriate sexual behavior: [16]
• Worldnet Daily exposes naked homosexual festival in New York: [17]
• Keeping track of the "third wave" of the new Religious Right: [18] (From The Wild Hunt.)
• FBI arrests Hal Turner for allegedly threatening judges: [19]
• The RIAA says you can re-sell used CDs, so why can't you re-sell downloaded MP3s? [20]
• Before going to jail for fraud, a con man commits bigamy for the fourth time by marrying his fifth wife…who's a convicted sex offender: [21]
• US Congress may finally get around to deciding what to do with Puerto Rico: [22]
• UK vicar doesn't follow the Christian concepts of forgiveness and turning the other cheek: [23]
• Woman win the right to bathe topless in Sweden's third largest city: [24]
• Che Guevara's granddaughter poses half-naked for PETA: [25]
• UK churches are advised not to offer wine during communion to help halt the spread of swine flu: [26]
• They don't know what to do with transsexuals in Malaysia: [27]
• Oh noes, home-grown terrorists are trying to buy guns: [28]
• National Library of Scotland bans workers from displaying the national flag in the office because they could be racist: [29]

Picture of the moment:

• Lost in translation: [30]
• "For the life of me, I cannot find a witty title that does this justice:" [31] (Quoted from the guy who posted the link to alt.slack.)
• This movie star hates her fans: [32]

2009-06-24

• Former "spam king" Alan Ralsky pleads guilty to multi-million dollar fraud: [1]
• File-download site Rapidshare fined $34 million and ordered to filter content: [2]
• Wisconsin encourages 10-year-olds to hunt, no safety training required: [3]
• Chinese Internet strike proposed to protest censorship software: [4]
• Facebook (allegedly) censors citizen journalist for reporting from Iran: [5]
• In the EU, you are no longer allowed to eat your pet horse: [6]
• Those Godless Homosexuals are going to make fun of California archbishop in upcoming gay pride parade: [7]
• Iran football players banned for life after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad protest: [8]
• German police blockade street after two six-year-old kids build a fake "nuclear reactor:" [9]
• High profile Twitter hack spreads porn trojan: [10]
• 39 Web sites and blogs banned by Malaysian Parliament: [11]
• Wal-Mart's much-touted $4 generic prescription medications come from a drug company with a questionable safety record: [12]
• Oh noes, atheists are lobbying for influence on Capitol Hill: [13]
• Record companies try suing Irish ISPs into submission: [14]
• What do you do when the US Navy shuts down your Christian group on its "Navy For Moms" Web site? Sue, of course: [15]
• Human brains make their own marijuana: [16]
• 14-year-old who posted nude pics of herself on MySpace won't be charged with kiddie porn: [17]
• Don't Flush U.S. – a campaign to name port-a-potties after awful liberal politicians: [18]
• Witchcraft bedevils talent in East Africa: [19]
• TV preacher proves that only the Christian God is the real God: [20]
• Uganda media critic notes the increase in stories about witchcraft: [21]
• Ski resorts pay for discriminating against those poor, innocent, persecuted Christians: [22]
• UK film censor relaxes sex guidelines: [23]
• Scientology-backed candidate runs for California state Senate: [24]
• +CLICK, the anti-AIDS video game: [25]

Weird site of the moment:

• Daphne's Closet – a collection of links (and reviews!) of fringe and wacko Web sites…most of which haven't been proviled here at the High Weirdness Project (yet!): [26]

Picture of the moment:

• Hex, the six-legged kitten: [27]
• Dog-kangaroos turn heads in the Philippines: [28]

2009-06-23

• Confidential memo reveals US plan to provke an invasion of Iraq: [1]
• Germany passes legislation to censor kiddie porn Web sites: [2]
• UK politicians banned from using Twitter: [3] (Unfortunately it's only in one district…)
• Apple bans Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone: [4]
• UK school pupils banned from kissing: [5]
• Part 3 of the St. Petersburg Times' series of reports on Scientology: [6]
• Polish city ravaged by Nazis to cut Hitler's tree: [7]
• Preventing your site from being banned by other sites: [8]
• India's government bans the Maoist Communist Party of India as a terrorist group: [9]
• Sure, sign right here…but if you don't repay the money then we get your soul: [10]
• 11 things the Bible bans, but you do anyway: [11]
• One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone: [12]
• Iran bans prayers for the Iranian Youtube martyr, Neda Agha Soltan: [13]
• Los Angeles county tries to pass a law requiring the use of condoms in porn, but it's not having much success: [14]
• New Jersey to crack down on drivers who program their GPS while driving: [15]
• World of Warcraft bans kite mobs: [16]
• The latest E. Coli scare comes from…sob…chocolate chip cookie dough: [17]
• Villagers dig in vain for prophesied idol: [18]
• July 1 is the day Australia recognizes same-sex couples: [19]
• Makers of upcoming movie The Stoning of Soraya M. find themselves in a pickle because of current events in Iran: [20]
• The Internet Movie Database has a Wikipedia-like feature that lets you warn parents that – gasp – this movie has sex: [21]
• Atheist charity organizations (which don't seem to be promoted as well as religious charities): [22]
• Four Google executives go on trial (in absentia) in Italy for allowing a video to be posted to YouTube showing an autistic kid being abused: [23]
• In Zambia, three brothers sentenced to hang for killing their father over witchcraft: [24]
• Austrian newspapers want to use data retention to enforce copyright: [25]

Picture of the moment:

• The terrible truth about Futurama: [26]
• This prank was totally gay: [27]

2009-06-22

• Possessing hentai video games might be a federal offense in the US: [1]
• Iran's Web spying aided by Western technology: [2]
• You know how Buddhism enjoys a reputation (in this country, at least) of being a religion of tolerance and brotherhood to all? Guess again: [3]
• Part 2 of the St. Petersbug Times' (latest) expose of Scientology: [4]
• Let's take a look at the prayer booth installed in Detroit's City Hall: [5]
• Wives, God is ordering you to give your husbands lots of oral sex: [6]
• Cute kittens defend blogs from censorship: [7]
• Google to cut China porn results: [8]
• The White Penis Cult of Forest Grove: [9]
• Reporters escape Taliban captors: [10]
• African businessman seeks court protect to keep from being forced to swear an occult oath: [11]
• More attempts by Israel to fulfill Biblical prophecy: [12]
• Tel Aviv anarcho-vegan bar bans Israeli soldiers: [13]
• A must-watch video from Iran (and why copyright law almost prevented you from watching it): [14]
• Today's story of school library censorship comes from Antioch, Michigan, and the book in question is The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian: [15]
• Iran's PRESSTV versus BBC and CNN – this Iraeli commentator says they're all lying: [16]
• US Anglicans launch a new drive to ban women and gays as bishops: [17]
• Brazilian prosecutor for a ban on toy sales at fast-food chains including McDonald's and Burger King: [18]
• Woman blames Islam for her accusations of witchcraft: [19]
• The video games rating panel for the UK will consists of only three men (and no women): [20]
• The bad economy is forcing more and more women to become hookers: [21]
• The Large Hadron Collider startup is delayed – again – until October: [22]
• Woman evicted for having Easter decorations on her door two weeks after the holiday: [23]

Picture of the moment:

• If it is really pretend, then what the hell did he spit out? [24]

2009-06-21

• Don't tase me, bro: [1]
• More demands for YouTube to Protect The Children from porn: [2]
• Scientology – The Truth Rundown: [3]
• In a characteristic show of compassion, Operation Rescue holds a candlelight vigil for all the abortions performed by Dr. George Tiller: [4]
• British government orders teachers to no longer teach the "i before e except after c" rule to students: [5]
• North Korea may fire missile at U.S. on Independence Day: [6] (Not that this is a scare story or anything…)
• UK prison newspaper pulps 50,000 copies over fears cartoon of bearded pig in turban would offend Muslims: [7]
• French government to investigate the disturbing trend of more and more women wearing burqas: [8]
• Corporate control of water in Latin America: [9]
• American Medical Association votes to recommend that hospitals ban doctors from wearing those familiar white lab coats: [10]
• IRC network wars (warning – story contains IRC geek talk): [11]
• Stonehenge's annual Solstice festival is now attracting 35,000 partygoers per year: [12]
• African girls lured to vice by voodoo: [13]
• News flash – US astronauts smuggled porn to the Moon: [14]
• UK pilots ordered to shoot down UFO: [15]
• What to do if your child has superpowers: [16]
• Looks like the FCC may finally look into exclusive phone deals: [17] ("Want to watch ABC? Buy this TV. Want to watch HBO? Buy another TV…")
• The American Family Association is still trying to scare legislators into thinking a new hate crimes bill will "protect pedophiles:" [18]
• Another fight over white supremacists adopting public highways: [19]
• Mother's quest against junk food in schools is turning into an obsession: [20]
• Work begins on New Mexico spaceport: [21]
• Yo dawgs, let's all head to The Hut for a slice o' 'za: [22]

Picture of the moment:

• Fairly terrifying: [23]
• The Jumping Jesus phenomenon: [24]

2009-06-20

• CIA delays release of report on secret prisons and torture: [1]
• Two caught trying to smuggle $134 billion into Switzerland: [2]
• Worldnet Daily tries to make you think President Obama is a secret Muslim who wants to continue the Nazi Holocaust: [3] (From Bartholomew's Notes on Religion.)
• Want to work for the city of Bozeman, Montana? Turn in your passwords to Facebook and your blogs: [4]
• State of Rhode Island to license medical marijuana dispensaries: [5]
• Girl electrocuted to death while trying to Twitter in the bath: [6]
• US House of Representatives enacts its first impeachment since President Clinton: [7]
• chaplain resigns after in-jail Bar Mitzvah party: [8]
• Gay couples can now get passports using their married names: [9]
• German court upholds ban on hacking software: [10]
• Church sues the state of Florida for not being able to distribute religious tracts in schools: [11]
• And a Christian group in Michigan sues for the right to pass out Christian literature at an Arab festival: [12]
• The revolution will be televised: [13]
• Disclosed FBI documents reveal a massive campaign to suppress the movie Deep Throat: [14]
• Europe ramps up its war against Evil Internet File-Sharing Terrorists: [15]
• Danish media house Berlingske blocks readers who have ad-blocking software installed on their computers: [16]
• Philadelphia considers a ban on smokeless tobacco: [17]
• And another Pennsylvania town wants to require citizens to wave an orange flag when they cross the street: [18]
• Six-year-old girl burned in voodoo ritual: [19]
• Artist's doll scavenger hunt creates a cult following: [20]
• Real-life Cruella De Vil skins puppy to make a belt from its hide: [21]
• Fashionable swim suits for Muslim women: [22]

Picture (or song) of the moment:

• A golden oldie from the 70s – "Timothy" by The Bouys: [23]
• The Puppet show – photos of real children modified to look like puppets: [24]
• Wall of outlets: [25]

2009-06-19

• Federal judge strikes down laws banning military recruitment of minors in California: [1]
• SubGenius cult invites Stephen Colbert to Doomsday: [2]
• Music industry wins $80,000 verdict against file-downloader, but she gets a new trial. The result – she now has to pay $1.92 million for downloading 24 songs: [3]
• Beyonce stomps on bootleg street traders: [4]
• Thanks to new rules to Protect The Children, UK parents find they can't take pictures of their own children at sports day: [5]
• YouTube yanks anti-Israeli video, "Feeling The Hate In Jerusalem:" [6]
• The newly-passed wartime spending bill includes a ban on the release of torture photos: [7]
• Also thanks to a new law passed by President Obama, Americans under age 21 can no longer get credit cards without the co-signing of a parent, guardian, or spouse: [8]
• China warns Google over porn links: [9]
• Connecticut preacher performs an exorcism to drive the homosexual demons out of a teenage kid: [10]
• New Hampshire high school principal apologizes for allowing stories with homosexuality and vulgar language in literature courses: [11]
• India bans imports of mobile phones which do not have a unique international identification code: [12]
• Cover of the new game Left 4 Dead 2 is censored: [13]
• FDA warns "natural health product" companies that they can't promote their wares as a way for people to protect themselves from swine flu: [14]
• Britain releases censored list of expenses: [15]
• The makers of Ubuntu Linux force the Ubuntu Satanic Edition merchandise store to shut down: [16]
• Blogger demands Google stop serving Scientology ads on its pages: [17]
• Oh no, evil homosexual terrorists are going to attach Trader Joe's stores tomorrow (June 20th): [18]
• US Congress to apologize for slavery: [19]
• Florida state workers – stop wearing sexy outfits and start wearing deodorant, or else: [20]
• RI tries – again – to outlaw indoor prostitution: [21]
• Sweden unveils plans to scrap state film censor: [22]
• New top cop to keep an eye on how Hollywood depicts homosexuality: [23]
• Bozeman, Montana will allow Gay Loggers For Jesus to march in this year's Fourth of July parade: [24] (That name alone makes this story worthy of a mention here.)

2009-06-18

• In the US, you can now go to jail for sending dirty words through email: [1]
• ACLU declares American Muslims are persecuted by laws preventing the financing of terrorists: [2]
• George Congressman Paul Broun calls upon President Obama to designate a National Year of the Bible: [3]
• "Golden Cash" botnet-leasing network uncovered: [4]
• In Britain, Jewish couple sues over light sensors in hallway on the Sabbath: [5]
• US Department of Defense told to add more "cyber-warfare" training: [6]
• "Okay, officer, I admit I'm boinking this underage kid!" "Sir, I only pulled you over because you didn't use your blinkers…" [7]
• American Communist Party creates a new Religion Commission to reach out to individuals and organizations and to welcome people of faith into the party: [8]
• Saudi police raid gay party and arrest 71 people for "doing things:" [3437108948]
• This might not be the best use for old military rockets: [9]
• Remember the joke about a girl being offered to have sex with a stranger for $1 million? [10]
• New from Singapore – billboards that can tell if you're male or female: [11] (But what if you're a tranny?)
• Phillipine MILF organization calls on the Army to stop using mosques as military camps: [12]
• Uganda mob attacks family of witches and sets six homes ablaze: [13]
• Egyptian court refuses to accept a person's conversion from Islam to Christianity: [14]
• I, personally, would rather be a slut: [15] (Or so says the person who sent this news link.)
• More politics – how President Bush deliberately took steps to avoid being prosecuted for war crimes: [16]
• Oregon Bunny Lady ordered not to come within 100 yards of a rabbit: [17]
• The Vatican bans a small group of breakaway traditionalist Catholics from ordaining more priests and deacons: [18]
• Skepchick looks at the creepy museum Psychiatry - An Industry of Death: [19]
• Strange sex stories from the Muslim world: [20]
• UK Wiccan coven sues church after being banned from using its social club for their gatherings: [21] (Bonus – the newspaper got them to dress up for a photo in their Wiccan robes, with pentacles lining the walls…)
• J.D. Salinger manages to delay publication of the sequel to The Catcher In The Rye: [22]

Picture of the moment:

• 12 year old Boy Scouts altruistically offer help to woman (but only younger ones): [23]