(no subject)

Jakalope: Skinny Puppy takes on Theatre of Tragedy. Evanessence wishes it was this band.

(Of course, Jakalope still wishes it was Drain Sth, Yeah Right, or Scratching Post. Still, anyone who hung with Ogre gets mad credit, and they're Canadian.)

Skunk bites man.

Several stitches later, Dan's is fine except for the realization that he'll forever be known as the guy with a skunk on his junk.

Certainly a practical way of dealing with the situation.

Man pays Buffalo's ISP bill himself, so the city website will be back up so he can pay the fee he owes.

Yet more "American schools are run by and for idiots"

13 year old boy found guilty of "Level IV offense" by his school. That category includes selling drugs or alcohol, robbery and using or possessing weapons.

What did he do?

He had a rubber band. Allegedly, he snapped it at his science teacher, which is "threatening assault with a weapon".

Sword-wielding nutbar news!

Man refers to himself as "The One, the Chosen One, the Almighty" while attacking people with a sword, court is told.

Also:

Man is naked on his front lawn. Neighbours tell him to put some clothes on - man becomes upset, gets a sword and chases them away - still naked.

And, hey, on the topic of naked idiots, we have this gentleman, who broke into a home, tried on women's clothing, surfed for porn on their internet connection, and fled when the occupants returned, leaving his wallet and ID behind.

More nutbar news!

Ernst Zundel to be deported, finally, to face criminal charges in Germany.

(To get an idea of how wacky this guy is, consider that the *USA* deported him for benig *too right-wing* for rural Tennessee, two years ago.)

Memo to MPAA and RIAA:

When the Reich agrees with you and hopes to support your court case, you're probably NOT working on the side of the angels.

So to speak.

Certainly tells you what's valued, anyway.

A review of fines levied by other federal agencies suggests that the government may be taking swear words a bit too seriously. If the bill passes the Senate, Bono saying "fucking brilliant" on the air would carry the exact same penalty as illegally testing pesticides on human subjects. And for the price of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during the Super Bowl, you could cause the wrongful death of an elderly patient in a nursing home and still have enough money left to create dangerous mishaps at two nuclear reactors. (Actually, you might be able to afford four "nuke malfunctions": The biggest fine levied by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last year was only $60,000.)

If Bush has his way, Howard Stern may soon have a tough choice to make: Tell a sex joke on the air, or dump toxic waste in New York's drinking water while willfully placing an employee at risk of injury or death?

Japanese students are bad, too.

North Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map.

As for Iraq, where Japan has some 550 soldiers in one of the country's most controversial overseas deployments and where a Japanese was beheaded by kidnappers, over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find it.

It wasn't only small countries that didn't register, however.

Takizawa said that some students couldn't find the United States and located it in China, Brazil or the central African state of Congo.

eididdy's got my back on the News Of The Stupid Fucking Teacher

High school student arrested and charged with "terrorism" for writing a short story for English class that involves zombies overruning a school.

"My story is based on fiction," said William Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies."

Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky," said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.

Poole disputes that he was threatening anyone.

"It didn't mention nobody who lives in Clark County, didn't mention (George Rogers Clark High School), didn't mention no principal or cops, nothing," said Poole. "Half the people at high school know me. They know I'm not that stupid, that crazy."
---------------------------------------
As Lee points out, this does mean that owning a copy of Carrie thus carries a felony "terrorism" charge in Kentucky.

But, hey, it's still not illegal for the press to deliberately falsify news.

Universal Press Syndicate edits Ann Coulter to make her racism and inanity seem more sane to its subscribers

(no subject)

USSC rules 5-4 that executing people for crimes committed as minors is unconstitutional.

"Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justice Clarence Thomas and Scalia, as expected, voted to uphold the executions. They were joined by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."

Note that the judges most IN FAVOUR of executing minors are also the ones the most AGAINST abortion.

Postcards from Iceland.

(no subject)

Many, many books, from manybooks.net

All free, all ready to be downloaded to your PC or PDA.

"Horrible violence is okay, as long as it doesn't have any naughty words!"

The FCC said its indecency and profanity guidelines were not applicable to violent programming.

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

Newt Gingrich says:

We ought to say to [state university] campuses, it's over... We should say to state legislatures, why are you making us pay for this? Boards of regents are artificial constructs of state law. Tenure is an artificial social construct. Tenure did not exist before the twentieth century, and we had free speech before then. You could introduce a bill that says, proof that you're anti-American is grounds for dismissal.

On a completely unrelated note that has absolutely *nothing* to do with the above quote,

On 7 April 1933, the Law for the Restoration of the German Civil Service ordered the dismissal of persons whose political and religious backgrounds made them unfit to work as civil servants of the Reich. In four crucial articles, the law specified the categories for "cleaning up" the civil service, to which professors belonged....Article 4 demanded the termination of the appointments of civil servants who were considered politically unreliable, a clause that applied to alleged communists and socialists....Under the April 7th law, all security of position, including tenure, was eradicated.

Just sayin', y'know.