It's official:

A willing partner to "rough sex" could not legally consent to be choked into unconsciousness and sexually violated, an Ottawa judge has ruled in a bizarre case involving a couple whose eight-year relationship featured a raunchy sex life.

( Cut for not everyone's cuppa )

Now that they've said it, I'm going to be seeing phallic symbols everywhere!


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Follow the Great Turtle Race, 2007. Cheer on these 7-foot-long, satellite-tagged gigantotherms on their annual trek to the laying grounds at Playa Grande ( Read more... )

I've had bad moves, but this tops anything I've ever had to deal with*.

They Dropped. A. Bösendorfer.

* *touches wood*

I'm not certain what I think about this.

The frozen embryos of Natallie Evans and her former partner, Howard Johnston, will be destroyed, according to the wishes of Mr. Johnston, but against those of Ms. Evans.

Ms Evans, from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, was engaged to Howard Johnston in summer 2000. She developed ovarian cancer the following year, ( Read more... )

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Some parents in BC don't want their kids learning yoga in school because they think that yoga's a religion, and there's no place for religion in public education:

A school program to fight childhood obesity that includes yoga is drawing complaints from some Christian parents in the Quesnel area in B.C.'s Cariboo region ( Read more... )

Florin Fodor really, really wants to be in Canada. As of yesterday, he's going to be here for another seven years months, too, but I don't think he quite wanted to be in jail ( Read more... )

How did I miss the ongoing saga of the Sunken Cheese?

Sunken cheddar defeats diversMONTREAL -- Luc Boivin's lost cheddar is passing into local legend as the Titanic of the cheese world ( Read more... )