Huffington Post has what they believe is how right-wing eyes see the New York Times. Whether you agree or not with the content, it’s funny.

From CNN:

Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don’t pay.

Stephen Colbert, in character, roasted Bush at the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner. It was so good that it can’t be contained in one movie.

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He gives Bush so thorough a beating, you almost feel bad for him.

Here’s the music video from 1985 that was sponsored by Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign. Some notable participants: New Edition, Toni Basil, David Hasselhoff, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tootie from the Facts of Life, Boogaloo Shrimp (aka Turbo) from Breakin’, and for a delicious bit of retro-irony… Whitney Houston.

In Dover, PA, creationists are now proselytizing door-to-door. Jehova’s Witnesses and creationists might show up at the same time. So the question is: without using words, how do you make it clear that when you slam the door on them, the sentiment is intended for both of them?

From the AP article:

A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of lawsuit filed by a Rankin County adult store, which challenged the constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bans the sale of sex toys.

So it remains a crime for adults to sell vibrators to other adults there, but a gun? No problem. Maybe an effective protest would be for citizens to put double-ended jelly dongs in their pickup truck gun racks.

From elsewhere,

Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.

Wired has an article on a proposed windfarm for some town in upstate NY. The usual not-in-my-backyard arguments are asserted with regard to aesthetics and property values. But here are some new arguments against it that you might not have heard before:

Group members also warned of health problems ranging from strokes caused by the sunlight as it pulsates through the spinning turbine blades to mange in cattle. Others claimed that women living near the wind farms are having as many as five menstrual cycles a month.

…one speaker compared the sound of the spinning blades and whirring machinery (which most people find inaudible from fairly close distances) to the noises Nazi troops tortured Jews with during the holocaust.