New stories:

• Outrageous Fortune 2 by stimle
• The Biker Bar by O'Melissokomos
• The Garage Mechanic by Peterbilt
• Yet Another Choice by xythan_shadow
• My Roommate's Body 15 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: Virtual Insanity

• Mannie the Marine
• The Prick (tt oral anal hs)
• Summer of Change
• Trapping Travis
• Wade and Christian

Creation Museum Selling Mastodon Skull--Only 6,000 years old!

The shy, fragile face of ID

Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

Do You Teach Your Kids About Darwin?

Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?

Evolution Wins as Creationists (Accidentally) Switch Sides in Florida--However, the battle goes on.

Expel, expelling, expelled!--Will this movie sway lawmakers? Salon

New stories: High School Wrestler by Peterbilt and Fitting In by zulator

Stories I'm Reading: Justin Shorts

• Bulging Nylon Briefs Teen Orgy
• Juicy Young Bulges
• Nylon Bulges

Five Years of Iraq Lies--Was it worth it? Salon

• War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past
• What I Got Wrong About Iraq
• My Iraq War Retrospective

Lessons on the Surge from Economics 101

'NYT' Op-Ed Recalls Errors of 'Liberal Hawks' on Iraq

Bushwhacking

• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush
• The Illustrated President
• Bush's legacy

Moussaoui prosecutor kept CIA tapes secret

Waterboarding is legal, White House says

Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers

McCullagh's Law: When politicians invoke the do-this-or-Americans-will-die argument

New stories:

• Blind to Love by Iainlthr
• Boy Without a Name by Peterbilt
• Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

Stories I'm Reading: xangel (inc)

• Bayberry Broken Hearts
• Blue Lights & Blue Balls
• Garage Sale Son

Education

• "The head of the Nazis was a killer named Hitler whose evil partner, Mussolini, was president of the USSR. Ultimately, the war ended with the bombing of Iwo Jima and Hitler's suicide."
• Churchill flew to the moon... right?
• Teens losing touch with historical references

Religion

• Wrath, Lust, and Littering? The New Seven Deadly Sins
• Indians blinded looking for vision of Mary
• Viagra ruled kosher for Passover

The Onion

• Pornography-Desensitized Populace Demands New Orifice To Look At
• 87 Killed In Violent Kerfuffle
• Wii Video Games Blamed For Rise In Effeminate Violence

New stories: Dakota and His Dad by Peterbilt and My Roommate's Body 14 by Londonboy

Stories I'm Reading: karl williams

• Dad's Workmate
• Gym Buddy
• Scoring at the Pool

Why Apple fans hate tech reporters--Actually, it's more the question of why tech reporters seem to hate Apple, but yeah, some fans can be annoying. Salon

• Apple Death Knell Counter--Apple Has Been Declared Dead 52 Times Since April, 1995
• Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work--Six years later, here's why it does.
• How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a Fucking Jackass
• Roger Kay’s Wax Wings of Icarus vs the Flight of Apple
• Bampot of the Week: Alexander Wolfe

Apple and the value of design--More often than not, it just works.

Forget MTV - Apple's iPod ads are the new music-star makers

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future--Coincidence? I think not.

The Apple Product Cycle

Mac Tricks And Tips: Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

New stories: Construction Worker by Peterbilt and Lost Needs by Iainlthr

A Brilliant Reply to Sally Kern

"Giving money to institutions that failed at their only job, which was to have money, may not be the best strategy."--Things aren't looking too good right now.

Privacy

• Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a High-Speed Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier
• Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses Salon
• Hoover-Era Spying on Father Motivated Anti-Wiretapping Plaintiff
• Wiretapping's true danger
• Montana Governor explains why Real ID sucks

Supreme Court may rethink broadcast indecency--Fuck yeah.

Put young children on DNA list, urge UK police--This is to target 'potential offenders'. Thoughtcrime, much?

You're racits!--What passes as intelligent discourse

New stories:

• Brocker, Baseball Player by Peterbilt
• Academic Changes by screamingmoist
• Size Doesn't Have to Matter by Londonboy
• True Heroes 3 by Redkage
• The Orphanage 7 by Jaypat

Dear Sally Kern--Homophobia's always ugly [Thanks Wolfie!]

House Democrats reject telecom amnesty, warrantless surveillance--Dem's do good this time. Keep up the fight. Salon

Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaida--Good luck reading about it.

A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears

GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com

New stories:

• County Fair by Peterbilt
• Mark's Birthday Present by derek phillips
• Continuity by Iainlthr
• The Orphanage 6 by Jaypat
• My Roommate's Body 13 by Londonboy

Afghan MPs oppose Prophet cartoon--Money quote: "Freedom of expression has its limits - it should not harm religious feeling and beliefs."

Retired Priest Sentenced for Bilking Two Churches

Catholic nuns and monks decline

Banned from church--"Reviving an ancient practice, churches are exposing sinners and shunning those who won't repent."

Preacher under investigation claims financial documents belong to God--"It’s not yours, it’s God’s and you’re not going to get it and that’s something I’ll go to prison over."

New stories:

• First Big Date by Peterbilt
• True Heroes 2 by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 4 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 5 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 4 by Londonboy

Privacy and accountability, or the lack thereof

• House Democrats may move to split spy bill--Watch these losers cave in yet again.
• On Cusp of Senate Telecom Immunity Passage, White House Admits Phone Companies Spied--And they'll do everything to keep them in business.
• Sen. Rockefeller Lets Slip the Spying Truth: Drift Nets To Be Legalized
• FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
• Why does AT&T want to know what you're downloading?
• US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search--They'll be monitoring everything.
• Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
• White House guts Intelligence Oversight Board

New stories:

• The Architect's Son (inc) by Peterbilt
• True Heroes by redkage
• Sinners and Saints 3 by Naedre
• The Orphanage 4 by Jaypat
• Read My Lips 3 by Londonboy
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action 2 by muscl4life

Vegas chapels' unholy hustle--So much for the sanctity of matrimony.

Avoiding scientists' protests, pope cancels university speech

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized--But they're standing their ground.

Oxford to Study Faith in God

War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One