New stories by stimle, O'Melissokomos, Peterbilt, xythan_shadow and

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 zulator

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 and Brian Gets What He Wants by derek phillips

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• Teens losing touch with historical references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

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

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 by Peterbilt, screamingmoist, Londonboy, Redkage and Jaypat

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 by Peterbilt, derek phillips, Iainlthr, Jaypat and Londboy

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."

More new stories by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, and Londonboy

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 by Peterbilt, redkage, Naedre, Jaypat, Londonboy and muscl4life

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