Conservative radio jock Eric "Man-Cow" Muller has long had the opinion that waterboarding isn't torture -- some guy gets water thrown in his face, big deal, right? So he underwent a carefully controlled waterboarding session.

He lasted six seconds.

Here's Keith Olbermann's report on it on Countdown.

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Lawsuit on Lesbos aims to force Lesbians to call themselves something else. The thing is, it actually is an inaccurate term, technically, and now it seems that "Sapphic" would be incorrect as well, given recent research. So I guess we have to fall back on W. Somerset Maugham's reference -- "ladies in sensible shoes."

Australia to scrub anti-gay laws off the books. My goodness, reform at last?

Chinese-made Heparin may have been contaminated on purpose. Bet the big noisy "T" word won't get uttered in regards to this though. If it ain't Al-Qaeda you know it ain't the turistas doin' it!

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Sexual harassment at school 'worse than bullying' - I suspect this is harder to separate out than these people seem to think. The bottom line is that it's all destructive. We need a solution, period.

Credit Suisse bank loses billions When even the Gnomes Of Zurich get clobbered by the credit mess, you know we're in trouble.

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New Zealand man arrested for using hedgehog as a weapon in assault.

No indications as to whether or not the hedgehog was the victim of attempted buggery, though.

Coffee may help stave off Alzheimers.

Apparently Heath Ledger will not be doing promotion for Batman: The Dark Knight. Why so serious, indeed. Apparently the apartment he was in belonged to Mary-Kate Olsen.

Edit: NYPD has apparently retracted the statement about the apartment.

Ledger was apparently working on terry Gilliam's new film. Gilliam just has no luck some days.

Super duper superduperbug. There's a new variant of MRSA creeping into genpop from the West Coast. Amongst its lovely effects -- necrotizing pneumonia.

I'm going to go get into my bubble now.

It's the Giant Rat Of Sumatra!

Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced

Ouch.