Muzzammil Hassan, who started a television station aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, has been convicted of beheading his wife for seeking divorce. I'm reasonably certain I did not make this up.

WOW. Open mouth, insert gavel ( Read more... )

Since letting the clergy educate us on matters of science and health has historically gone so well:It cannot be overcome by the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, they increase the problem.
-- Pope Benedict speaking about AIDS to Africans
They INCREASE the problem? Has that post-hole digger hat cut off the circulation to his head? And how ( Read more... )

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann was elected President of the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. Somebody tell me this is a sick fucking joke.

I suppose I should reprint this here. I noted the proceeding via itsacountry's post and am following her lead in voicing my displeasure over Time Magazine's adding to its list of unspeakably idiotic acts with its most recent magazine cover (below).to: letters@time.com ( Read more... )

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers.

A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work as hard on sales as the employee had worked to breathe.

Holy shit this isn't even a joke. Wow.

Okay I don't have one yet, but I'm looking. I received a letter in the mail from Verizon Wireless that looked like the usual update of terms and conditions and all that fine print jazz. In skimming it, however, my eyes stumbled over the words "within 30 days of receiving this letter" in bold print, and I stopped ( Read more... )

A Jesuit priest fathered five children with Alaskan prostitutes over a protracted period of time. Wynonna dumped her hubby after he was busted for sex charges involving a minor. A Florida man wants to end alimony payments to his ex-wife who is now also a man. And last, but not least, eighty sheep were found living on the ground floor of a ( Read more... )

Hahahahaha! Leave it to Gomez to mention yet another crackpot belief to which I'd never been exposed.


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