Okay, I surrender.

The horse and his boy, it didn't gross me out.

The explicit voraphilic Disney snuff furry porn involving the alimentary cycle running backwards, that didn't gross me out. Neither did the Severus Snape/George W Bush slash fic, nor the photgraphs of dead babies or jet-assisted "roadkill".

I even was okay with the filmed accounts of murder of unarmed Iraqi prisoners, and the video of Budd Dwyer shooting himself. Disturbing, horrifying, and unpleasant, but not... gross.

THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST SICK.

Work-safe. You may never eat again. I don't plan to.

Once again, proof that the failure to teach critical thinking to children has expensive consequences

He went to prison for fraud and was ordered by the U.S. government to stop touting health products on infomercials, but Kevin Trudeau's book "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About" is a bestseller.

Trudeau, who for years sold snoring remedies and memory enhancers through long-format commercials dressed up as talk shows, says he is a consumer advocate battling the "unholy alliance" of drug companies and government regulators. "It's all about money. The drug industry does not want people to get healthy," he says in a commercial for his book. Trudeau says he has sold about 4 million copies of the book in under a year, a huge amount for a self-published book marketed initially only through the Internet and television infomercials.

The book -- whose back cover says "Never get sick again!" and "Learn the specific natural cures for herpes, acid reflux, diabetes ... cancer ... and more!" -- has topped the Publishers Weekly nonfiction bestseller list for the past three weeks. That attracted the attention of the New York Consumer Protection Board, which issued a warning this month that Trudeau promised cures he did not deliver. "This book is exploiting and misleading people who are searching for cures to serious illnesses," said Teresa Santiago, who chairs the board. "From cover to cover, this book is a fraud," she said, adding that a doctor quoted apparently endorsing the book died in 2001.

Trudeau filed a lawsuit to stop the Consumer Protection Board from approaching TV stations to persuade them not to air his infomercials. He says he recommends herbs, vitamins and other alternative treatments and, while urging people to consult doctors, lists cures such as shark cartilage for tumors and organic dark chocolate for stress.

"There are multiple ways to cure cancer without drugs and surgery," Trudeau told Reuters, adding that drug companies eschew natural products because they are unprofitable.

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The Happy Listener's Guide To Mind Control - a collection of the propaganda of the past, in MP3 format.

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That sounds like a challenge.

The Austrian town of Fucking has erected theft-proof road signs embedded in concrete blocks. Officials acted because they were fed up with English-speaking tourists stealing them as souvenirs. They are bolted and welded to steel posts embedded in concrete in the ground and the mayor added: "It would take all night to steal one."

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Hick who beat his 3-year-old son to death because he was afraid the boy might be gay sentenced to 30 years in jail.

With more than a year to go before the next American "election", the lying "attack ads" have already started.

A Brooklyn artist has, as his new piece of art, planned a fully-functional suitcase bomb.

He said the strength of the bomb would be equivalent to "about four pounds of TNT. It doesn't sound like much," he allowed, "but it's enough to kill everyone in the gallery." Mr. Hackett's bomb is designed to be triggered from "anywhere else in the world - you call a cell phone." He said that he had already purchased the cell-phone trigger. Only he knows the number - but, of course, he has no plans to explode it.

No, there's NO WAY for THAT to go wrong.


Don't *you* trust this guy?

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"Conversations At The Gas Pump": a San Francisco journalist interviews random people at an small-town Oklahoma gas station about why they think gas prices are so high.

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The Saddest Picture In The World.

Good Advice.

Extreme Biking!