Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Oral sex has been declared illegal in Singapore unless it is practised as a prelude to full sex, the island's Court of Appeal ruled. The...

Rep. Helen Chenoweth said that term limits would get rid of out-of-touch politicians. Still holding those endangered-species campaign BBQs,...

This is from www.pennpals.com, a website for folks in the joint. (Update: link no longer works) This is the women seeking men section, but ...

The guy who got life under CA's 3 strikes law for stealing a slice of pizza has had his sentence revised on appeal. He will be out after...

Tom Carson of the Village Voice says that Clinton's new cabinet does look like America--pudgy, bamboozled, potentially truculent, bereft...

Italian prison inmates will be allowed to keep pet birds and fish, the Vatican came out against smoking, the ban on pornography in military ...

Some Federal District Court judge in NYC decided not to find anti-abortion clinic blockaders guilty of contempt of his own injunction. He s...

2 women leave the Citadel, citing harassment. The president of the Citadel says nonsense, it's customary to set all new recruits on fir...

A pig just got a face-lift. There are real reasons, but the story's funnier if you don't know them. Poland is starting a cavalry u...

At the South Pole, the tradition is the annual run around the world, 2.7 miles that covers 24 time zones. The mayor of Moscow decreed that s...

I love Christmas news stories. Here's one: 6-year old British girl electrocuted by xmas tree lights while family looks on in horror. Y...

Our first story, broken by the London Sunday Times , is that Israel smuggled tons of hashish into Egypt from the 1960s until the late 80s f...

John Major, in an interview with Good Housekeeping designed to increase his appeal to women, revealed that he calls his wife "Little G...

By the way, the last words of Len Tuggle, executed in Virginia yesterday: "Merry Christmas." And to all a good night, I guess.

British fox-hunters, in their perrenial fight against hunt saboteurs, are now going after them with helicopters, which sounds a heck of a lo...

At Carl Bildt's party celebrating the 1st anniversary of the Dayton peace accords for Bosnia, many celebrants were hospitalized with sal...

According to the SF Examiner, the word Nixon used for the rich Jews was cock-sucker. I was hoping for something ethnic.

New story from the Nixon tapes: September 1971 Nixon asked Ehrlichman on several occasions to go after the tax returns of the rich Jewish co...

It seems that "prescriptions" for marijuana under Prop 215 are valid under current Nevada law, and possibly other states as well. ...

A heart-warming story from the NY Times: a 14-year old girl sets fire to her house after years of physical and sexual abuse such that one co...