VAN NUYS - A routine trip to the Social Security office Monday turned into 30 minutes of shock, disbelief and irritation for Lapriss Gilbert, who was forced to leave the federal building by a guard who objected to her "lesbian.com" T-shirt ( Read more... )

"I said, 'You can't treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra.' "

I'm stealing Jim Romenesko's brilliant summary of this story because my brain's too wigged out to process it properly: After a successful heart transplant in 2004, Andrew Busskohl said he wanted to become a surgeon. Now 18, the guy is accused of coming up with a chilling plan that called for cutting out the heart or eyelids of his potential victim ( Read more... )

This is not a randomly-generated news story. But yes, I am going to dissect it for just such a purpose.

Is it possible that a former Brigham Young University co-ed and Miss Wyoming beauty queen charged in the 1970s with kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England has resurfaced as the woman who made news this week for paying a Korean lab ( Read more... )

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It was less than a decade ago that Italy’s top criminal court ruled that it was impossible to rape a woman who was wearing jeans. The court concluded back then that nobody could forcibly remove a woman’s jeans unless she cooperated.

Since then, the court has changed its mind.There's a point where my ability to mock just breaks down and dies and ( Read more... )

A bulldozer driver went on a rampage in Jerusalem on Tuesday, hitting vehicles near a hotel where U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is due to stay later in the day before he was shot dead.

Dammit, Hillary, stop jumping around, it's just Reuters, the people who brought us Queen Elizabeth commanding thousands of worker bees and the ( Read more... )

AKRON, OH-In a statement delivered to friends, family members, and household pets, Kendall Garretson announced Monday that she would like to become an 13-ton, 275-horsepower John Deere row-crop tractor when she grows up.

..."A tractor," Garretson continued. "Trrraaaaaccctooooor!"

"When people are selling their bodies for gas, that's pretty sad," said Ken Easterling, chief prosecutor in the Kenton County Attorney's Office.

Angela R. Eversole, 34, of Fort Wright, is accused of prostitution and doing business without an occupational license.

...Dude. I just.... *shrug*

On the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe "attack dogs," claiming that Steinberg's June 28 article on the "ominous trend" in Fox News' ratings was a "hit piece." During the segment, however, ( Read more... )