Mashed potato wrestlers stir up trouble at barMADISON COUNTY - Four scantily clad women who wrestled in a swimming pool filled with mashed potatoes have whipped up a legal mess for a bar owner here, police said Monday ( Read more... )

Today is World AIDS Day. New reports by UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that, as of 2006, the epidemic continues to spread in every region of the world. By now, more than 65 million people have been infected with HIV and well over 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981, 2.9 million in 2006 alone. At this rate, the ( Read more... )

Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning officeWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning and abstinence ( Read more... )

Bonobo pulls alarm for attention -- again


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WAVE OF DANGER HITTING SMALL BUSINESSES AROUND THE US!

Oh the irony of it all.

And people wonder why we need laws against this shit. "Oh, get a different landscaping service", I can hear it now. What if it was McDonalds? What if it was Kroger? Just because this is some backwoods, podunk, bigot family business doesn't mean that discrimination in business is ok. Otherwise businesses could simply ( Read more... )

And she's PISSED ( Read more... )

Atlas
66% Extroversion, 80% Intuition, 16% Emotiveness, 38% Perceptiveness

You totally rock. Even if you don't like Ayn Rand, you're the kind of person she wrote about. You're one of the prime movers. You can think on your feet in a way the imposter Icarus type can only dream of, you can manage people and put them to their best uses, and you ( Read more... )

Wow, talk about fancy footwork! They struck down the Domestic Partnership Act because "The Domestic Partnership Act has failed to bridge the inequality gap between committed same-sex couples and married opposite-sex couples. Significantly, the economic and financial inequities that are borne by same-sex domestic partners are also borne by their ( Read more... )

And she worked pretty damned hard to do it. She tore open a hole in the fence and got out. C got home and Vega was gone, he called me on my cell and told me Vega was missing but Pedo was here. I got all misty-eyed in Aldi's, and rushed through my grocery shopping to cruise the highways near the house in hopes that I wouldn't find her there. ( Read more... )