New morph and new stories by BBMSN, Clarence591 and lthrjock

New stories:

• Marooned by BBMSN
• Second Chances 6 by Clarence591
• New Year's Resolution 7 by lthrjock

New morph: Roland Kickinger 2

Mormons

• President's Late Mother Improperly, Posthumously, Baptized as a Mormon--Digusting and reprehensible.
• Latter Day Saints lawyers, psychologists had a hand in torture policies
• Church has a beef with Mormon beefcake calendar

Sleepy Sunday

• The sexsomniac builder who forces himself on his wife in his sleep
• What if I sleep-talk about my secret crush? Salon
• Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online
• Mystery of Sleepless Boy Solved
• Wouldn't let her sleep, suspect told deputies, so she shot him

Star Trek--Watched it twice already, and planning to watch it a third time some time this week. Looks like it's going to last long and prosper.

• A history of Klingon, the language
• Top 10 Star Trek Movie Moments
• Instruction Manuals for the USS Enterprise

New stories: Stupid Cupid 8 by baboonfan and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 07:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: Stupid Cupid 8 by baboonfan and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 07:00 by CallMeCrazy

Newspapers

• Future of online news may be 'hyperlocal'
• A Web Site’s For-Profit Approach to World News
• Spare change for news Salon
• Can design save the newspaper?
• Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers--Or maybe not

Old vs. New Media

• Who owns the facts? The AP and the "hot news" controversy
• A.P. Seeks to Rein in Sites Using Its Content
• AP launches campaign against Internet "misappropriation"
• Does Google Really Control The News?
• Hey, journalists! Stop getting all huffy about the Huffington Post's "lifting" of stories.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! New stories: The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 2 by Londonboy and The Salt 2 by RdyRoger

Happy Cinco de Mayo

New stories: The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 2 by Londonboy and The Salt 2 by RdyRoger

Gay Marriage

• Poll: Support For Same Sex Marriage Grows
• Same-sex marriages gradually gain legal ground
• CNN Poll: Generational gap on gay marriage
• Handwriting on the Wall
• Miley Cyrus targeted over gay marriage
• Anti-Gay Rights Group Calls its Marriage Campaign '2M4M'--'M4M', seriously?
• The Bigots' Last Hurrah
• Funny Anti–Gay-Marriage Ad Sparks YouTube Revolt--Watch out for the coming gay storm
• Signs G.O.P. Is Rethinking Stance on Gay Marriage

States of the Nation

• New Hampshire State Senate Votes in Favor of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
• Maine Senate Backs Gay-Marriage Bill
• Connecticut Legislature Backs Equality
• Paterson Introduces a Same-Sex Marriage Bill--I heart NY
• In Iowa, Same-Sex Couples Rush to Tie the Knot--Well, not everyone.

New stories: Hunter: B.A.B.Y. by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 08:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: Hunter: B.A.B.Y. by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 08:00 by CallMeCrazy

Economy

• Citi Talks With Treasury About Retention Bonuses
• City bankers on course for £7bn in bonuses
• White House and Congress target credit card rates
• From Highly Successful to Unemployed to Becoming Mr. Mom
• Prescient Young Blogger Did What S. Korea Couldn't -- Foresee Global Financial Crisis--And almost went to jail for it.

AIG

• AIG CEO Ed Liddy's not-so-secret Goldman ties
• Congress Probing AIG Spin Shop
• Blind Amputee Has to Fight AIG for New Plastic Leg, Wheelchair

New stories: The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash by Londonboy and The Salt by RdyRoger

New stories: The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash by Londonboy and The Salt by RdyRoger

Deep Packet Inspection

• Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
• Cable: DPI is good for us; Congressman: it's frightening
• AT&T Sends Mixed Message on Behavioral Advertising
• The Open Rights Group Calls on Big Websites to Boycott Phorm
• European Commission and UK Clash Over Phorm
• British government "colluding" with Phorm
• Privacy International Takes On Phorm

Tech and the Law

• The Officer Who Posted Too Much on MySpace
• Cop's Gutsy Gambit Nails Alleged Craigslist Child-Sex Predator
• Juror's Twitter posts cited in motion for mistrial

New morphs and new stories: Legacy 5 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 6 by lthrjock

New stories: Legacy 5 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 6 by lthrjock

New morphs: Bicep Boy 4 and Geek2Jock 3

Wingers

• How they lie: a case study
• The GOP: divorced from reality
• The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition
• But Can Obama Make the Trains Run on Time?
• The Civil War On the U.S. Right
• Welcome to the Incredible Shrinking Right-wingo-verse! Salon
• Right-Wing Extremist Congresswoman Denounces Attacks Against Right-Wing Extremists
• FBI Arrests Oklahoma Teabagger For Twitter Threats
• Aryan Nations recruiting again in northern Idaho

New stories: Second Chances 4 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 8 by Flashpoint

New stories: Second Chances 5 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 9 by Flashpoint

Gay Marriage

• Iowa Supreme Court: Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional--Read a summary of the Court's decision which Rep. King was none too happy about
• Vermont lawmakers give OK to gay marriage
• Sweden allows same-sex marriage

Sexting the Children

• 'Sexting' Hysteria Falsely Brands Educator as Child Pornographer--The prosecutor should be disbarred for ruining an innoncent man's life.
• Judge blocks Tunkhannock sexting charges--Albeit temporarily.
• 'Sexting' isn't a crime

Zealotry

• Outcry in Pakistan after video of a 17-year-old girl's flogging by the Taliban is shown on TV
• Free Expression Assault Continues at UN Human Rights Council
• Scientology Official Addresses Works of L. Ron Hubbard--"I'm not interested in somebody else's version of my religion or somebody else's idea of what my religion is." Well, your religion is not a religion in the first place.

New stories: Facets 2 by screamingmoist and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 09:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: Facets 2 by screamingmoist and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 09:00 by CallMeCrazy

Economy

• The Quiet Coup--"If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform."
• Does ABC News understand how income tax works?
• Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
• For Debt Collectors, the Dead Are a Healthy Bet
• Economic collapse puts graduates on unforeseen paths
• Young and Old Are Facing Off for Jobs
• Now-needy FDIC collected few premiums from banks for decade

Cards

• Credit card reform gets another look
• Don't miss a credit card payment, or the APR could soar
• Another twist for the unemployed: Debit card fees

New stories: Old Man Stevens 9 by Londonboy and Joey's Genie by RdyRoger

New stories: Old Man Stevens 9 by Londonboy and Joey's Genie by RdyRoger

Kiddie Pr0n

• Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown--Though cyberbullying is on the rise.
• Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history
• ISPs charge child abuse investigators for data
• Child-porn cartoon conviction upheld
• Minister admits thought crime is on the agenda
• Home Office clueless over its own anti-child porn measures
• Prosecutor Who Threatened Teens With Child Porn Charges For Taking Pics Of Themselves Gets Sued--Question is, Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal?

Protecting Adults from Minors

• Big brother filter plan insults parents
• Hey, Senator - leave us discerning viewers of pornography alone
• Graphic artists condemn plans to ban erotic comics

New morph: Boy2Bear 4 and New stories: Hank the Mechanic by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 5 by lthrjock

New stories: Hank the Mechanic by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 5 by lthrjock

New morph: Boy2Bear 4

Condom-nation

• Pope tells Africa 'condoms wrong'
• France chastises Pope on condoms
• Facebook users wage condom campaign against Pope-- Get out our bedrooms, Ratzinger.

Bad Cops

• Police officer sorry after detaining NFL player at hospital
• Cop seen on video knocking over bicyclist has been indicted
• In rush-hour labor, ticket delivered
• Former drug officer launches 'KopBusters' TV show
• LAPD tried to reverse a coroner's verdict in girl's death

Support Earth Hour! New stories: Second Chances 4 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 8 by Flashpoint

Support Earth Hour

New stories: Second Chances 4 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 8 by Flashpoint

D'OJ!--There's change we can believe in

• DOJ releases, abjures Bush administration surveillance memos
• Obama DOJ Defies Federal Judge
• Despite Obama pledge, Justice defends Bush secrets
• Obama Admin Backs Bushies On Missing Emails
• DoJ supports RIAA in Sony v. Tenenbaum three-ring circus

Poly Ticks

• Why some foreigners can't believe Obama won the presidency fair and square.
• Why Washington Worries--Eschewing Establishmentarism
• The newest fear-mongering campaign from the Right and the media Salon
• Social Security isn't broken; don't 'fix' it
• CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years The Onion

New stories: An Alternative Choice by xythan_shadow and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 10:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: An Alternative Choice by xythan_shadow and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 10:00 by CallMeCrazy

Gay Marriage

• NY Sen. Charles Schumer now supports gay marriage
• Gillibrand Inches Leftward, Now Supports Gay Marriage
• Governor Douglas says he'll veto same-sex marriage bill
• Mick Huckabee and Jon Stewart on Gay Marriage
• Dallas same-sex divorce case a first for Texas
• Same-sex marriage movement looks to 'Obamify'
• Can California gays make it legal? Salon

AIG

• A.I.G. Sues Government for Return of $306 Million in Tax Payments
• Commentary: Boards are real culprits in AIG mess
• Ex-AIG boss slams bonuses
• Cuomo Says Some A.I.G. Bonuses Will Be Repaid
• AIG Europe Execs: Returning Bonuses Is Blackmail

New stories: His Cup of Tea 5 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 6 by RdyRoger

New stories: His Cup of Tea 5 by Londonboy and The Gene Gene 6 by RdyRoger

Flaming

• How to Disagree
• Post Apocalypse
• Memo to Internet nutjobs: Please, think before you post
• You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy
• Court: No right to shout "douchebag" in a crowded blog

Trolling

• Trolls
• Flame First, Think Later
• Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling
• The 8 Most Obnoxious Internet Commenters
• Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet The Onion

New stories: Teacher's Pet 12 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 4 by lthrjock

New stories: Teacher's Pet 12 by Redkage and New Year's Resolution 4 by lthrjock

UK not OK

• CCTV turned off - for privacy--Silly landlord. That's the government's job to spy on people.
• Rory Bremner: Our liberty is on the line. It's time to act
• Government abandons data-sharing scheme
• Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic
• Private firm may track all email and calls
• Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
• UK filters in the Wikpedia amendments

Down Under

• Row over web blacklist
• Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end
• Australia's Internet filter ruled by a single bureaucrat
• Australia Censors Wikileaks Page
• 'Leaked list of banned websites' was not the ACMA blacklist, says Stephen Conroy

New stories: Second Chances 3 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 7 by Flashpoint

New stories: Second Chances 3 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 7 by Flashpoint

Premier Election Solutions AKA Diebold

• Report: Diebold Voting System Has 'Delete' Button for Erasing Audit Logs--Also it's unable to audit ballot deletions.
• State Files Claim Against Texas Firm--"...to recover $8.5 million spent by the state to fix problems with the company's touch-screen voting machines. "
• Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California County
• Diebold faces GPL infringement lawsuit over voting machines--Elections aren't the only things they've helped steal.
• Criminals sneak card-sniffing software on Diebold ATMs--I thought their ATMs were supposedly more secure their voting machines. (After all, bank money is worth more than your votes.)

Votes

• Al Franken stole the election? Prove it or shut up--So, will Norm Coleman allow "the healing process" to begin or continue the fight? Salon
• Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Allows Voting Rights Case to Proceed
• Supreme Court to hear challenge to voting rights act--"... now that a black man has won the presidency."
• Several Clay County Officials Arrested On Federal Charges--One of the charges was for 'Changing Votes at E-Voting Machines'
• E-voting security fixes will get us nowhere without stats

New stories: Hunter: BFF by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 11:00 by CallMeCrazy

New stories: Hunter: BFF by Aardvark and The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 11:00 by CallMeCrazy

The New AIG: "Arrogance, Incompetence, and Greed"

• Fire the AIG management
• AIG bonus flap may cost recipients
• AIG chief asks for bonuses back
• Outcry builds in Washington for recovery of A.I.G. bonuses
• US to force AIG to repay bonuses
• The dishonest "Blame Dodd" scheme from Treasury officials Salon
• The real 'outrage' behind AIG's bonuses

Economy

• Note to NBC's boss: Dude, try watching your own channel sometime
• Does ABC News understand how income tax works?
• Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own
• Economic collapse puts graduates on unforeseen paths
• The Crisis of Credit Visualized--The short and simple story of the Credit Crisis

New stories: How Does He Do It? by MS_Alberta and The Gene Gene 5 by RdyRoger

New stories: How Does He Do It? by MS_Alberta and The Gene Gene 5 by RdyRoger

End of the Print Run?

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
• Last Rites
• Newspapers are dying, but the news is thriving
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer to go Web only
• Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source--First demonstrated with campaign news, it's shown that its quickness outflanks the MSM.
• Skype Legend Morten Lund Bankrupted By Newspaper
• Is Jeff Jarvis gloating about the death of print?--"The fall of journalism is, indeed, journalists' fault. It is our fault that we did not see the change coming soon enough and ready our craft for the transition. It is our fault that we did not see and exploit—hell, we resisted—all the opportunities new media and new relationships with the public presented."

Blogging

• What Makes for a Good Blog?
• Will Blogs Kill Political Magazines?
• Blogonomics: The End of Micropublishing?
• Time to Hang Up the Pajamas: Growing Rich by Blogging Is a High-Tech Fairy Tale
• Who killed the blogosphere?

New stories: That Summer of Jake by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 3 by lthrjock

New stories: That Summer of Jake by bossfo and New Year's Resolution 3 by lthrjock

Vatican

• Vatican Backs Excommunications Stemming From an Abortion--So, they excommunicate a doctor who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim, and they welcome back an excommunicated Holocaust denier.
• Pope Concedes 'Mistakes' in Bishop Controversy--Where's your papal infallibility now?
• Stem cell go-ahead puts Obama at odds with pope--Ah, the kind of church and state separation I'd like to see more of.

Islam

• Malaysia re-imposes ban on word Allah usage
• ACLU to sue Twin Cities charter school that caters to Muslims
• The radical Islamist who came in from the cold Salon

Religulous

• Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
• Why Believers are Ethically Bankrupt
• Christians should keep Scripture out of politics

New stories: Second Chances 2 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 6 by Flashpoint and New morph: Beach Boy

New stories: Second Chances 2 by Clarence591 and Not As I Do 6 by Flashpoint

New morph: Beach Boy

Brawl Street Salon

• Cramer vs. Stewart, in person
• There's nothing unique about Jim Cramer
• On "Mad Money," Cramer back to normal

Money Men

• A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout --Don't these guys ever learn? Updated: 15 Mar 09
• Madoff Goes to Jail After Guilty Pleas--What happens to his victims?
• RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin: minister approved my pension and I'm keeping it
• Lehman Brothers' Richard Fuld 'sold' mansion to wife for $100
• Thain Refuses to Answer Cuomo's Bonus Questions
• Anger over executive pay misplaced--"We might do well to remember that much of the excessive compensation was a symptom of the economic crisis and not necessarily the cause of it." Interesting points, but the kinda hard to reconcile with all the shenanigans these CEOs engaged in.

New stories: The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 12:00 by CallMeCrazy and The Interview 4 by Titan

New stories: The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 12:00 by CallMeCrazy and The Interview 4 by Titan

Digital Restrictions Management

• Friendly DRM Is An Oxymoron
• Ebook DRM provider goes dark, the books you paid for disappear
• Microsoft defends return to DRM
• Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable
• Apple, MPAA, RIAA attack DRM circumvention requests

Fare Use

• Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don't equal 17,000 lost sales
• Copyright cop wedding crashers fined by Spanish court
• Court Upholds DMCA Protections In Suit Brought Against It By UMG
• Judge says BU can't turn over infringers' IPs in P2P case
• FCC chair nixes MPAA bid for selectable output control