New stories by Aardvark, BBMSN, Cicero, dymondbolt, fillups44, hypnoboy, IsoGAYCop, Londonboy, Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper and zulator

New stories: Sorry for the lack of updates lately as I just had wrapped up a months-long project that culminated last week, but I've been working behind the scenes as well in inviting new contributors to archive their stories on this site. Some of you may have noticed some new names on here like Gentry DuVane, Markjo342 and Seekingsometruth over the past few weeks, and so I'd like to formally welcome them as well us the guys who'll be joining us today: Otaru_grower, R Christopher Cooper, hypnoboy and IsoGAYCop.

• Alphaman Meets Mr. Cole Lector 2 by Cicero
• College Finals: 1 | 2 by BBMSN
• The Destroyers 3 by fillups44
• Fine Tuning the Bull 2 by dymondbolt
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 11 by Londonboy
• Hunter: Hello, Houston by Aardvark
• Hypno Cop: 1 | 2 by hypnoboy and IsoGAYCop
• A Magical Mid-Life Crisis by zulator
• Stepping Into Dad's Shoes by Otaru_grower
• The Thrill of the Hunt 2 by R Christopher Cooper

Your mom

• Happy Mother's Day
• My Son is Gay?
• The Phone Call
• The Christmas Tree
• Make Your Mom Proud

Losing your Facebook

• Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
• Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
• What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account
• Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy To ‘Everyone’
• Understanding Facebook's privacy aftershocks

New stories: A Real Bug's Life 2, or From Jock to Cock(roach) by baboonfan and Just to Make Sure by Touchstone

New stories: A Real Bug's Life 2, or From Jock to Cock(roach) by baboonfan and Just to Make Sure by Touchstone

South Park

• ‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning--Comedy Central capitulates to extremists' threats by censoring the episode which executive producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker stand behind.
• Islamist Death Threats Aren’t a Cartoon Joke--"[W]hy have there been no arrests?"
• Seattle cartoonist: May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’
• 'Simpsons' show support for 'South Park'
• 'South Park' Creators Threatened By Extremists TheOnion

Your Privacy and Facebook

• Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information
• Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How
• Facebook privacy hole 'lets you see where strangers plan to go'
• Schumer challeges Facebook over info sharing
• Facebook's Great Betrayal--What's the real reason behind the move?

New stories from Aardvark, Cicero, dymondbolt, in2other, Londonboy, musl4life, Seekingsometruth, Wrestlr, z119z and zulator

New stories:

• Alphaman Meets Mr. Cole Lector by Cicero
• Communion Ver. 2 by zulator
• Finetuning the Bull by dymondbolt
• Hunter: Father's Day by Aardvark
• Latex Manacles by Seekingsometruth
• Mid-Life Crisis by in2other
• Night at the Carnival by muscl4life
• Polar Opposites by Londonboy
• Training Andrew by Wrestlr
• White Noise 5 by z119z

Gays@Work

• BioWare rethinks policy on homosexuality
• Gay videogame designer sues Microsoft for discrimination
• Gay Britons Serve in Military With Little Fuss, as Predicted Discord Does Not Occur

Gays and Religion

• Pope Benedict attacks government over Equality Bill
• Ex-Archbishop Speaks About Catholic Church and Homosexuality
• Gay couple cuffed, cited after kiss near LDS temple
• Straight believers find a home in gay churches, synagogues
• Clergy say, "I won't" Salon

The Sassy Gay Friend saves...

• Ophelia
• Juliet
• Desdemona

New stories: Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 9 & 10 by Londonboy, Night Blind by Wrestlr, and Taking an Interest by Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 9 | 10 by Londonboy
• Night Blind by Wrestlr
• Taking an Interest by Tyler Bernard

iPad

• How Apple's iPad Succeeded Where Microsoft Failed
• My iPad as a tool
• iPad: Do they *really* get it?
• I was shown the media's future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it's here

iBad

• What's wrong with the iPad? Let's start with the lack of a clock
• Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
• Steve Jobs: Apple owns the trademark on 'Pad'
• Tinkerer’s Sunset
• iPad FAIL

Adobe vs. Apple

• The Adobe - Apple Flame War
• Excuse me? Why does God need a Starship?
• Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
• Apple against the world
• Its all about the framework…
• Apple's wager

AppStore

• Apple Adult Content Purge Encouraged By Developers
• The App Store Isn’t about Control
• The App Store: Quality control without the quality

New stories by Jaypat, Londonboy, Walter Ego, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• The ABCs of Desire by Wrestlr
• The Happy Place by Water Ego
• The Hulk Pill 5 by Jaypat
• The Thrill of the Hunt by Londonboy
• White Noise 4 by z119z

Poles Mourn, Await President's Coffin After Crash

The Unfriendly Skies

• Air France may bar obese passengers from flights
• Airline to charge for carry-on bags--Last year it was for checking bags at airport instead of online.
• United Breaks Guitars
• Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint letter?

Security Theater

• Pomona Senior Detained at Philadelphia Airport--Hope he wins his lawsuit
• Man takes knife through airport security but stopped for bottle of water
• It was no joke at security gate
• The Terrorists Win

New stories: Catching Jaocb Tritt by Gentry DuVane and The Health Club by Markjo342

New stories: Catching Jaocb Tritt by Gentry DuVane and The Health Club by Markjo342

Haters

• We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?
• The Rage Is Not About Health Care
• Censuring the census
• Wingnuts approximate “clever” while threatening the President
• Why Republicans Make Sore Losers--Written a year ago, still true today.

Teabaggers

• Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP.
• Teabaggers: No one saw nuthin'!
• Congressman Spit On By Tea Party Protester
• Teabonics--A Flickr feed of signs
• The Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence

Beck

• Conservative Libertarian--Jon Stewart doing what he does best
• The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work
• James Cameron trashes Glenn Beck

New stories by Randy Dragon, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• Barnstorm by Wrestlr
• Unfinished Business 4 by Randy Dragon
• White Noise 3 by z119z

Telecoms

• 4G in America: Lies, Lies, and More Damn Lies
• This Is Why People Hate the Phone Company, AT&T
• Final Word on AT&T 3G MicroCell: Meh
• You want broadband? That'll be £45,000, BT tells couple
• Bell Canada doesn't want to share next-gen fiber network

Credit Cards

• Credit law should help, but read the fine print
• New credit card laws won't stop gouging by companies
• Credit Card Rates and Fees Soar as New Credit Card Law Takes Effect
• Watch out for new credit card traps
• AmEx, Discover Ditch Overlimit Fees

New stories: Coyete Creek Chronicles by muscl4life and Stolen by zulator

New stories: Coyete Creek Chronicles by muscl4life and Stolen by zulator

#passthedamnbill

• Congress Finishes Health Care Reform--For Good This Time
• Why This Moment Matters
• Health Care Reform Reax
• Health Reform Bill Summary: The Top 18 Immediate Effects
• Project for a Healthy American Future by Steve Benen--The roadmap to success

Ain't so Grand these days

• An Absence of Class in the G.O.P.
• Frightening GOP Behavior
• Fox News, health care, and the right-wing nervous breakdown
• The backlash: Reform turns personal
• Can the GOP Succeed by Running Against Health Care?
• How GOP Treats the Tea Party Could Sway November Elections
• Health Care Repeal Wars Fracturing GOP Primary Candidates
• Waterloo--And how it can save itself from it

Catholic guilt or innocence?

• Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys
• Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'
• Tear down the wall of silence in the Roman Catholic Church
• Sin Or Crime?
• Vatican attacks media on 'Pope role' in sex abuse cases

New stories by Jaypat, Touchstone and Tyler Bernard

New stories:

• The Hulk Pill 4 by Jaypat
• The Penthouse Apartment by Tyler Bernard
• Rough Sketch by Touchstone

Health Care Reform

• House Approves Health Overhaul, Sending Landmark Bill to Obama
• Fear Strikes Out
• An open letter to conservatives
• Man With Parkinson's Who Was Berated By Tea Partiers: 'I Embody The Controversy' Thanks Wolfie!
• SOCIALISM!

New stories from Aardvark, AbsMan420, Londonboy, Wrestlr and z119z

New stories:

• Cratus' Coots 4: Old Man Jasper by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 7 | 8 by Londonboy
• Handsome Boy by Wrestlr
• Hunter: An Education by Aardvark
• White Noise 2 by z119z

Bullying

• Schoolboy Jai Morcom beaten to death during recess
• Studies Reveal Why Kids Get Bullied and Rejected
• School pays out $150,000 after boy stoned, scalped in bullying incident
• Black belt teen strikes back at bully, and rallies community against racism
• Bullied Swedish schoolboy given bodyguard

Net Neutrality

• A Wrong-Headed Right-Wing Take on Broadband and Net Neutrality
• How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"
• Big Cable: Net neutrality violates ISP 1st Amendment rights
• Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don't matter
• Google begins effort to find Internet blockers--This was a year ago. Haven't seen any updates to this story yet.

Happy Pi Day! New stories by Aardvark, Londonboy, TImelord65, Wrestlr and z119z

Happy Pi Day!

New stories:

• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 5 | 6 by Londonboy
• Hunter: Breathe Me by Aardvark
• Jokers by Wrestlr
• Secret Mission 5 by Timelord65
• White Noise by z119z

The L Word

• Catholic School Rejects Child Because Of Lesbian Parents--Religions, despite their calls for inclusivity, trumpet their exclusionarity (i.e. You go to hell if you're not _____.), but where is the line before their actions go beyond discriminatory?
• Mississippi School Prom off After Lesbian's Date Request
• Driver's suspension urged after lesbian couple denied bus ride

Educamation

• Another Dumbass School Official Story--Innocent casaulties in the so-called war on drugs.
• School Pays Educator Falsely Charged In ‘Sexting’ Probe
• A library without the books
• L.A. Unified pays teachers not to teach
• Warning over narcissistic pupils

New stories from Aardvark, Drakkenfyre, Jaypat, John D., Londonboy, rtrose, Touchstone, Ultrabeef, Walter Ego and z119z

New stories:

• Babysitting an Alpha Kid by John D.
• The Car Lot: Copped by Aardvark
• Daddy Issues by Touchstone
• Dont' Try This Online! by rtrose
• Escape by z119z
• Friday Night Freaks by Ultrabeef
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable: 3 | 4 by Londonboy
• The Great Mysto by Walter Ego
• The Hulk Pill 3 by Jaypat
• Room Service by Drakkenfyre

Creationism

• Meet the Flintstones--Nearly 1/3 of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed.
• Revisionaries: How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks
• Muslim academics and students are turning against Darwin's theory--Embracing ignorance is one of the hallmarks of extremist religious teachings
• Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin Salon
• Evolution T-Shirts on Trial in Missouri Town
• Molecular Evidence Supports Key Tenet Of Darwin's Evolution Theory
• Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
• More ‘Evidence’ of Intelligent Design Shot Down by Science

New stories by Aardvark, Absman420, Jaypat, Londonboy, purejetfuel, Randy Dragon and stimle

New stories:

• Bases Loaded 2 by stimle (nc coll)
• Cratus' Coots 3: Daman by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable 2 by Londonboy
• The Hulk Pill 2 by Jaypat
• Klutz by Aardvark
• Unfinished Business 3 by Randy Dragon
• Virus by purejetfuel

|_0\/3

• Science Valentine
• 10 Ways to a Geeky Girl’s Heart
• Facebook Employee Proposes to Google Girlfriend

New stories by Absman420, dymondbolt, Jaypat, Londonboy and Richard Jasper

New stories:

• Cratus' Coots 2: Ravishing Rick by AbsMan420
• Getting Used To Being Unstoppable by Londonboy
• The Hulk Pill by Jaypat
• Hey Edgar by dymondbolt
• Superman Gets BIG! by Richard Jasper

iPad Aftermath

• Apple Finally Unveils iPad TheOnion
• The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine
• The Morning After

New stories: Based Loaded by stimle, Hunter: Phone-Sexed up by Aardvark and Unfinished Business 2 by Randy Dragon

New stories:

• Bases Loaded by stimle (nc coll)
• Hunter: Phone-Sexed Up by Aardvark
• Unfinished Business 2 by Randy Dragon

Apple Tablet

• Malignant Rumor
• Rapidly Pressing The Button Beneath The Counter
• "It's everything!"

App Store

• App Store Is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry
• Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process--How efficient can it get?
• Apple relaxing App Store rejections in certain cases?
• Steve Jobs intervenes, approves Knocking streaming video app
• Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.2 Is Now Available--The apologists can STFU.
• iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store--That's now how Google Voice bypasses Apple's ATT's restrictions.
• The only 2 fixes for the iPhone platform

New stories by Aardvark, AbsMan420, buff cf, Randy Dragon and Timelord65

New stories:

• Building Walls 2 by buff cj (mc musc)
• Cratus' Coots: Cameron by AbsMan420
• Hunter: Once Gawky, Once Cocky by Aardvark
• Secret Mission 4 by Timelord65
• Unfinished Business by Randy Dragon

Religion

• Opponents to continue fight after blasphemy made illegal--In Ireland.
• GOP Introduces 2010 'Year of the Bible'
• Pentagon reports no longer quote Bible--"The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the White House as was practice during the Bush administration."
• Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition--"A Michigan-based supplier of advanced optical gun sights for use on military weapons announced that it was discontinuing its practice of engraving the side of the sights with references to the chapter and verse of scriptures from the New Testament."
• Pastor Urges His Flock to Bring Guns to Church --Or "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Part 2"
• Washington's Plan B ruling overturned--"A federal judge overreached when he sided with religious-freedom arguments to block Washington state’s rules mandating the sale of 'morning-after' birth control, appeals judges said...."
• HOTT Professor convicted of harassing Fritz Coleman over TV weathercasts-- Professor convicted of harassing Fritz Coleman over TV weathercasts says, "I did what I felt God was calling me to do."

Religion in School

• Judge: School must allow 'God' on posters
• Don't go to prom, school tells teen--"A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music."
• Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian TheOnion

New stories: Behold the Power of Words 2 by F_R_Eaky, Building Walls by buff cj and Secret Mission 3 by Timelord65

New stories: I'd like to welcome a new mind control/muscle growth author to the site, buff cj. The more, the merrier.

• Behold the Power of Words 2 by F_R_Eaky (mc musc)
• Building Walls by buff cj (mc musc)
• Secret Mission 3 by Timelord65

G.O.P. Takes Massachusetts Senate Seat--Time for little schadenfreude served to the Democrats who richly deserved this ass-whuppin for being spineless saps.

TSA

• Stop the panic on air security
• TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers
• The TSA's Flying Circus
• Baby toys and national security Salon
• Eight-Year-Old on TSA Terrorist Watchlist Gets Frisked

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

New stories by Muscl4life, Tyler Bernard and Ventrego

New stories:

• Genie Trouble 4 by Ventrego (tf)
• Hit F1 to Continue 4 by Tyler Bernard (mc musc)
• The Ninth Dragon 2 by Muscl4life

Late Night

• The Late Night War Reaches Its Boiling Point: All the Clips You Missed
• Why We're on Team Conan O'Brien
• Why Some Comics Aren’t Laughing at Jay Leno

Marijuana

• Weed Takes Root
• Calif. judge orders police to return 60 pounds of marijuana
• Puff, Puff, Pass: Ammiano's Pot Bill Clears Assembly Committee

New stories by Muscl4life, Timelord65, Tyler Bernard, Ultrabeef7 and Ventrego

New stories:

• Genie Trouble 3 by Ventrego (tf)
• Hit F1 to Continue 3 by Tyler Bernard (mc musc)
• Muscle-Frat 3 by Ultrabeef7 (musc)
• The Ninth Dragon by Muscl4life
• Secret Mission 2 by Timelord65

Marriage Equality

• Same-sex marriage bill defeated in New Jersey Senate vote
• New York Senate Rejects Gay Marriage Bill
• California Gay-Marriage Legal Case Divides Activists
• RI lawmakers override gov's veto, approve funeral planning rights for gay, unmarried couples
• Argentina: First Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America
• Mexico City moves to legalize same-sex marriage
• DC City Council votes to legalize gay marriage
• Same-Sex Marriage and Time
• Jon Stewart Enlist Pro-Wrestler Mick Foley To Protect 10-Year-Old Gay Marriage Activist
• Drama Queen

New stories: Rings by z119z, Secret Mission by Timelord65 and The Truth by Walter Ego

New stories: Please welcome Timelord65 into the fold.

• Rings by z119z (hypno)
• Secret Mission by Timelord65
• The Truth by Walter Ego

Character Building

• Boy, 5, made to walk two-and-a-half hours to school
• Marysville's Kung Fu 4 Kids focuses on how to deal with bullies
• Teenager completes UK coast walk--To make up for the £20,000 search and rescue operation he caused when he stole a speedboat for a joyride