New stories by Aardvark, baboonfan, CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, dymondbolt, lthrjock and RdyRoger

New stories:

• Hunter 17: Living the Dream by Aardvark
• The Island of Dr. Mortimer 3 by baboonfan
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 04:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 10 by lthrjock
• The Salt 5 by RdyRoger
• Second Chances 9 by Clarence591
• Special Delivery 2 by dymondbolt

Police Powers

• Justices Ease Rules on Questioning
• Supreme Court Eases Limits on Evidence
• Supreme Court says police may search even if arrest invalid

Pushback

• Supreme Court: Feds Abusing Identity Theft Law
• Supreme Court scales back police right to search cars
• NY Top court: Police cannot track suspect with GPS--Tell that to Wisconsin.

Prop. 8

• Prop. 8 upheld, but existing same-sex unions to stand
• Prop. 8 ruling draws attention to state's easy amendment process
• The Olson/Boies Challenge to California's Proposition 8: A High-Risk Effort--Bush/Gore lawyers team-up

New stories by CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, Jaypat, Londonboy and lthrjock

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 4 by Londonboy
• The Gifted Child by Jaypat
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 05:00 by CallMeCrazy
• New Year's Resolution 9 by lthrjock
• Second Chances 8 by Clarence591

New morph: Speedo Kid 5

War on Terror

• Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you... President Obama--And Glen Greenwald gets into the nitty-gritty of this unconstitutional proposal.
• Why Sen. Lindsey Graham thinks anti-torture laws sometimes need to give a little
• And He Shall Be Judged--Donald Rumsfeld hopes history will vindicate him.
• CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes
• UK apology over rendition flights

Torture

• Torture planning began in 2001, Senate report reveals Salon
• Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects
• My Tortured Decision--FBI agent Ali Soufan speaks up and speaks out against enhanced interrogation techniques.
• Call It Torture --Dan Froomkin takes a look at one of the Bush administration's dark legacies.
• Showing the money--Olbermann pledges to donate $10,000 to charity after radio talkshow host and frequent Fox & Friends guest "Mancow" undergoes waterboarding which he calls "absolutely torture." Hannity, you watching? You should also listen to your friend Shep.

New stories: Green Legacy 8 by Jaypat, The Salt 4 by RdyRoger and Special Delivery by dymondbolt

New stories:

• Green Legacy 8 by Jaypat
• The Salt 4 by RdyRoger
• Special Delivery by dymondbolt

Mary Jane

• Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory
• Legalizing Marijuana the Federalist Way
• Schwarzenegger: High Time for Marijuana Debate
• U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states
• Stiff sentence upheld for medical pot supplier
• Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'
• Marijuana Advocates Point to Signs of Change
• 420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief
• Michael Phelps, marijuana, feigned outrage Salon

New stories by BBMSN, CallMeCrazy, Clarence591, Londonboy, lthrjock, RdyRoger and Texzilla

New stories:

• The Alpha Dog Gets a Leash 3 by Londonboy
• Jekyll Genes: My Friends Call Me Pony by Texzilla
• The Jocking: 3rd Quarter: 06:00 by CallMeCrazy
• Marooned 2 by BBMSN
• New Year's Resolution 8 by lthrjock
• The Salt 3 by RdyRoger
• Second Chances 7 by Clarence591

Torture and Religion

• The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate
• An Evangelical Call on Torture and the U.S.--Written two years ago, this declaration seems largely ignored and forgotten by their own.
• Richard Land of SBC: No room for torture in U.S. intelligence-gathering

The Onion

• Christian Salt Introduced
• It Was Then That I Carried You vs. Bullshit, Jesus, Those Are Obviously My Footprints
• God Makes Surprise Visit To Local Church
• Panicked, Sweat-Covered Pope Reverses Longstanding Ban On Abortion
• Muslims To Boycott All Pope Merchandise

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