Former NFL MVP Steve McNair shot, killed at age 36. Good God.

Via querldox, the announcing team for the Mets/Pirates game are apparently at the same hotel as a convention of furries, and the announcers don't quite know what to make of it.

Hernandez: I saw a guy with, with his pet beaver. He had his hand, he was stroking it, he was petting it. [Long pause.] I’m serious! It was a, like a stuffed animal, and he was ( Read more... )

Virginity: you're doing it wrong.

An FYI from your friendly li'l LJ Support volunteerling: if your main e-mail address on record with LJ is a work or (shudder) Hotmail account, might want to poke through kateshort's post here (short version: sekrit question). Because I'd hate to see any of my f-list zombified.

Also, Jesus Christ in a coffee mug. Which actually makes perfect sense to me.

Via Kotaku: With "rape games" officially banned in Japan and politicians cracking down, the country's erotic game makers are feeling the heat.

What to do? In order to avoid another outcry or to prevent falling target of international protests, adult game developers are giving new and upcoming titles less sensation names.

So, Slippery Pregnancy ( Read more... )

Via Obscure Store: Dog eats pot, trips the hell out.

"His eyes were kind of glossed over, very out of touch, I mean, he didn't seem to recognize me at first," says the black Lab's owner. "When he was trying to walk, he was looking at his paw, and then looking at the ground and then trying to get his paw to reach the ground, but was unsuccessful."

Over the years, Western Washington University professor Perry Mills has referred to an overweight student as a "400-pound canary who warbles nothingness"; slapped the nickname "Precious" on a male colleague he believed to be gay; and called a female colleague a "bimbo" and "slut" to her face ( Read more... )

Put the barrel of the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Another can't-miss idea from the Budd Dwyer School of Marketing.

I'm not one for legal wonkery, but this is pretty wonderful on a variety of levels: it turns out you can't actually sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch because you led to believe that crunchberries were real fruit. Which is awesome enough on its own, but the details are golden:

The plaintiff, Janine Sugawara, alleged that she had only recently learned ( Read more... )

Normally I'm all for respecting other people and their cultures and their religious beliefs.

But some things are indefensible, utterly intolerable:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of ( Read more... )