New stories: Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 11 by fillup44, Muscular Debt Collector by R Christopher Cooper, and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice

New stories:

• Doug: One Man's Saga of Massive Muscle 11 by fillup44
• Muscular Debt Collector by R Christopher Cooper
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 16 by Alyn Roze

Craigslist

• Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
• I will walk your dog
• Roommates

Boing Boing

• Book made using 4 daisy-chained printers spanning 100 years' worth of technology
• Photo of Pegasus--"'Shopped. I can tell by the pixels."
• Escher/escalator mashup

Banksy

• Exit Throug the Gift Shop--A Oscar-nominated documentary
• Banksy Storyboarded and Directed Opening of The Simpsons
• Outdoors

The Wonderful World of Disney

• What Disney's princes teach men about attracting women
• What Disney's princesses teach girls
• Alice in Wonderland Demonstrates Various Drug Use

Man's Best Friend

• The pups of war, by the British soldier who saved them from horrors of the Afghan front
• Guilty!
• Last Minutes with ODEN--A documentary.

New stories: Muscle Fantasy Island 7 by Londonboy, The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 15 by Alyn Roze, and The Voodoo You Do by Solomon

New stories:

• Muscle Fantasy Island 7 by Londonboy
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 15 by Alyn Roze
• The Voodoo You Do by Solomon (musc theft)

Books

• The Most Targeted Books
• New Law Could Keep Books Out Reach For Children
• Atwood novel too brutal, sexist for school, Toronto parent--"I'm not looking to ban books," and yet he is.
• Beulah School Board bans popular 1994 book--"None of the Beulah School Board members have read the book, though some researched it..." Yeah right.
• Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand

Teachers

• Stand up for teachers now
• For Richer and Poorer - Teachers and Wall Street--It's all about "shared sacrifices".
• I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More
• "What Teachers Make"
• No strong teacher unions, lower SAT/ACT scores. Any correlation?
• Arizona Teacher Fired Over Bumper Sticker
• Chickamauga School Board Fires Accused Teacher--Even when the allegations were proven false.

Revisionist History

• Local schools using textbook with inaccurate Civil War history
• Bachmann Flubs Fifth Grade American History--Now she's acting all butthurt about it.
• Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence The Onion

Creationism

• 9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom
• Profiles in (Evolutionary) Courage, Part 4: Bringing Sanity to Louisiana Schools--"Zack Kopplin, a high school senior from Baton Rouge (LA) Magnet High School... has set his sights on overturning a 2008 Louisiana law that permits creationism to creep into public schools under the cover of scientific openness."
• Florida State Lawmaker Takes Heat For Bill That Would Require Teaching Of 'Non-Evolution'
• Libertyville High School teacher was referencing creationism in science class, administrators say
• More conservative Legislature considers evolution bill
• 'Creationist Theme Park' Group Prez Accused Of 'Ungodly' Remarks
• Creationists suffer defeat in Oklahoma
• Former JPL employee claims he was fired for doubting Darwin
• Meeting a Creationist

New stories: The Juicehead 2 by BBMSN, The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 14 by Alyn Roze, and Power Tie 3 by SS

New stories:

• The Juicehead 2 by BBMSN
• Power Tie 3 by SS (musc mc)
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 14 by Alyn Roze

Wiconsin

• Scott Walker Kills His Wisconsin Union Busting Bill By Publishing It
• Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere?
• Wisconsin’s Radical Break--An editorial that brought out the McCarthyism in the Republicans hoping to bullying a critic into silence.
• Emails to Walker initially favored union rights, review shows
• Indiana Prosecutor Encouraged 'False Flag' Assault On Walker To Discredit Wisconsin Unions--In this case, it was "to fake an assault or assassination attempt on Walker in order to discredit the unions and protesters."
• Wisconsin recall ads hit Randy Hopper on his mistress getting a state job with a 35% raise

Utah lawmakers repeal HB477--"After enduring two weeks of public fury, Utah lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Friday to repeal a bill that would have restricted public access to government records."

HCR

• Healthcare hurdles, one year on
• Obama backs Brown’s bill tempering health care rule--Which the Republicans have rejected.
• Wisconsin's Sen. Ron Johnson claims healthcare reform could have killed his baby
• Vt. House Passes Single-Payer Health Care Bill--Hundreds of Doctors Say They'd Move to Vermont for Single-Payer Healthcare
• About a Quarter of Americans Actually Believe Healthcare Reform Has Been Repealed

Bill would end abstinence-only sexual education

Unhealthy

• $10 preemie preventive now $1,500--Senator Brown is asking why there's a 14,900 percent increase for a drug whose development has already been paid for by the taxpayers.
• HIPAA Bares Its Teeth: $4.3m Fine For Privacy Violation
• Illinois Blue Cross To Pay $25 Million After Denying Coverage To Sick Kids In Need Of Nursing Care
• Accidental Death Becomes Suicide When Insurers Dodge Paying Life Benefits
• Rick Scott: Florida's Drug Fraud Enabler?--He's also ordering random drug testing of state employees which has already been deemed unconstitutional.

50,000 Call For Resignation Of Rep. Republican Peck from Kansas Who ‘Joked’ About Shooting Illegal Immigrants Like Hogs

Abortion

• Georgia Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages
• Nebraska Resurrects "Justifiable Homicide" Abortion Bill
• South Dakota passes law to require 'counseling' for women seeking abortions--And what do you think of the 3-day waiting period they enacted?
• Ohio Senate Schedules a Fetus to Testify About Abortion Bill
• Woman Forced To Watch Her Baby Die Because Nebraska Anti-Abortion Law Prohibited Doctor From Acting

Legislators seek to make embryonic stem cell research a felony

Rape

• Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape--"After struggling for nearly an hour to resist removal by Colonel Qaddafi’s security forces, she was dragged away from the hotel screaming."
• Egyptian women protesters forced to take ‘virginity tests’
• Woman who reported rape is charged with illegal sex
• Rape victim receives 101 lashes for becoming pregnant
• What Kind of Sick Culture Blames an 11-Year-Old for Being Gang-Raped?
• A 16 year old girl was gang raped almost for one month -- perpetrators were released by the police
• Raped Peruvian Teen Jumps Out of Window, Then Denied Abortion
• Canadian judge under review for controversial remarks in sex case
• Rape charges dropped after deleted messages recovered from iPhone
• Jail for student who cried rape for homework time

New stories: Embracing True Colors 3 by Farenheit80, The Good Freak 13 by AKA, and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 13 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• Embracing True Colors 3 by Farenheit80
• The Good Freak 13 by AKA
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 13 by Alyn Roze

Bad Sector

• Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire
• Why Are You Defending Apple?--Is 30% so dirty?
• Flickr Confirms Taking Down Egyptian Blogger's Photos, Cites Community Guidelines Violation
• "Dear Twitter"--Twitter has been getting its 3rd-party developers riled up.
• Ticketmaster Is Evil And Must Die--Having a monopoly isn't illegal; abusing it is.
• Etsy reacts to user outrage, makes changes to feedback system--Exposed user data to the public in the name of going "social".
• MySpace Won't Let Me Delete My Account
• Fan backlash over adverts injected in Angry Birds HD
• Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do
• Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist--Expectations matter.
• Global Virus Alert! ZoneAlarm's scare tactics raise hackles
• Buyer beware: Misleading HDMI cable labels suggest needless upgrades

Facebook

• Facebook Is AOLifying the Internet -- And That Sucks
• Activist Michael Anti Furious He Lost Facebook Account--While Zuckerberg's Dog Has Own Page
• Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes
• Confirmed, Facebook Automatically Bans Users--But they're doing a good job banning underaged kids.
• Survey: 41% of Facebook Users Total IDiots

Faceboob

• Facebook forced to lift ban on breast cancer victim's 'sexual and abusive' mastectomy scar photos
• Facebook bans Rochester breast cancer survivor's photo
• Facebook tells CNET but not Victoria Buckley they have apologized for Nipplegate

New stories: The Good Freak 12 by AKA, Brady Cannon's Unexpected Medical Exam 6a by Glaucon and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 12 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• The Good Freak 12 by AKA
• Brady Cannon's Unexpected Medical Exam 6a by Glaucon
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 12 by Alyn Roze

War on Terror

• Anti-war activists arrested near White House as they mark 8th anniversary of start of Iraq war
• US Army apology for photos of soldiers with Afghan body
• E-mail on interfaith marriage gets St. Charles man on no-fly list--"He said the agents offered to get him off the list — if he would become an undercover informant at mosques. [...] 'I feel like I'm living in communist Russia, not the United States of America, for someone to jump into my life like that.'"

The Haves

• The American Dream
• The Importance of Saving Money
• Dumbing Down the American Population
• Inequality And The Right
• Corporations Versus Individuals: The End of the Left/Right Paradigm
• What if we’re not broke?
• Koch Brothers Increased Wealth by $9 Billion Last Year As They Fund Laws to Make Working Class Poorer
• Koch Brothers and US Chamber: Polluting Our Earth and Our Democracies
• New York slashes hospital spending, but can't touch multimillion-dollar CEO paychecks
• Must See Chart: Tax Breaks for the Rich Versus Budget Cuts
• Putting money in perspective--1 pixel = 1 million dollars
• Millionaires: It Takes $7.5 Million To Be Rich The Onion

Wall Street, Mortgages and Foreclosures

• The War on Warren--"But we underestimated the speed and determination with which opponents of regulation would rewrite history. Almost instantly, that free-market boom was retroactively reinterpreted; it became a disaster brought on by, you guessed it, excessive government intervention.
• Wall Street Won! Nothing to Prevent Another Crisis, Says Former FDIC Chairman Bill Isaac
• Don’t Shed a Tear for Wall Street’s Dwindling Bonuses Just Yet
• U.S. Inquiry on Military Family Foreclosure
• Foreclosure King David Stern Shuttering His Law Firm--A journalist exposed firm employees "routinely falsifying legal paperwork in an effort to push borrowers out of their homes as quickly—and profitably—as possible."

Pushback

• The government sues some bankers. Finally! Salon
• Supreme Court Lets Fed Bailout Records Release Stand--Americans have a 'right to know' where and how their money is being used
• SEC moves to charge Fannie, Freddie execs

New stories: The Good Freak 11 by AKA, The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 11 by Alyn Roze and Titanification 4 by Jaypat

New stories:

• The Good Freak 11 by AKA
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 11 by Alyn Roze
• Titanification 4 by Jaypat

Film-flam

• The Day the Movies Died
• Why Movies Are Getting Worse
• Hollywood's conservatism: why no one wants to make a "risky" movie

Even Harry Potter Pic Loses Money Because Of Warner Bros' Phony Baloney Net Profit Accounting

Fun at the Movies

• How to Write a Nicholas Sparks Movie
• If Movies Followed Their Original Casting
• Things That Always Happen in Movies, But Never Ever in Real Life
• Watch Topher Grace Re-Enact BTTF, Ghostbusters And More In This Take Me Home Tonight Video
• 100 greatest movie insults--And here's 100 More
• How Jason Statham became the world's biggest B-movie star.
• Johnny Depp thrills as Jack Sparrow in school mutiny
• RoboCop Detroit Statue Gets An Appeal From Peter Weller
• World's Greatest Extra
• Tin Man, How Can I Ever Thank You?

New stories: Embracing True Colors 2 by Farenheit80, The Good Freak 10 by AKA and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 10 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• Embracing True Colors 2 by Farenheit80
• The Good Freak 10 by AKA
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 10 by Alyn Roze

US judge blocks Wisconsin union bargaining law

Transparency in Government

• Nation criticizes Utah's call for records secrecy--They went ahead with it anyway.
• Ohio governor forbids broadcast of budget announcement--"Journalists can bring only pens, notepads and tape recorders to the afternoon briefing."
• Obama politicos make a mockery of Sunshine Week

Media

• Few things could be more anti-American – and anti-free market – than the effort to keep Al Jazeera English off the air.
• Journalists angry over the commission of journalism--Anderson Cooper is doing his job.
• Why cable news never punishes liars
• The military/media attacks on the Hastings article--"Hey! Rolling-fucking-Stone Magazine!"
• Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

NPR

• House votes to cut NPR funding--"NPR receives about $90 million in federal funding annually, but the Congressional Budget Office calculated that the net savings from defunding the network would be zero."
• Weiner Mocks GOP For Defund NPR Bill--Amazing what they can do in 72 hours for an 'emergency'.
• NPR Sting: Edited Video Makes Schiller, O'Keefe Look Bad

US military launches Operation Sock Puppet, pays contractor $2.76m for social media ops

Happy St. Patrick's Day! New stories: The Good Freak 9 by AKA, Hypped to be Square by buffster67, Thom21 and O'Melissokomos, and The Sorcerer's New Ap

New stories:

• The Good Freak 9 by AKA
• Hypped to be Square by buffster67, Thom21 and O'Melissokomos
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 9 by Alyn Roze

Alpha Male

• Be honest: we all love the sexist alpha male
• The 8 Manliest Images on the Internet
• This will put hair on your chest

Men with sexist views 'earn more'--What do you think?

Manly Men

• "The Body Shop": The decline of the American muscle man
• Are men stuck in a state of perpetual adolescence? Salon
• Is it macho to moisturize? More men are doing it
• 16 Famous Man Myths… Debunked!
• The PUMA Hardchorus
  

Man Receives Oral Sex, Ordered to Pay Child Support--" The reason? [His ex-girlfriend] saved his semen after performing oral sex and secretly impregnated herself. "

Nice Guys vs. Bad Boys

• The Alpha Male
• Sweet Nothings
• Nice Guys Finish Last
• Men Who Do The Housework Are More Likely To Get The Girl
• "Bro"

Casey the Punisher--It appears that organizations such as the Calgary Counselling Centre are out of touch with what really happens in schools to bullied kids who are expected to take the abuse like good little bitches and not cause more trouble rather than stand up for themselves.

New stories: The Good Freak 8 by AKA, The Juicehead by BBMSN and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 8 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• The Good Freak 8 by AKA
• The Juicehead by BBMSN
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 8 by Alyn Roze

Net Effect

• Al Franken: 'They're coming after the Internet'--The motives of corporations and the politicians they've paid for have never been clearer: destroy the democratization of knowledge espoused by the free flow of information that has been a hallmark of the Internet by enacting artificial economic and legislative barriers in the name of the so-called free market that undermines Free Speech while lining their own pockets at the expense of the public trust.
• AT&T Implementing Home Internet Caps Starting May 2nd--Just when legal content is becoming more easily available. This should be open to scrutiny.
• GAO: High U.S. Broadband Prices Hindering Adoption And High U.S. Broadband Prices Are Due To Limited Competition

Manning

• Brian Manning Talks to PBS About His Son’s Detention--More like abuse.
• Report: State Dept.'s Crowley out, days after criticizing Manning treatment as "counterproductive, stupid"
• The clarifying Manning/Crowley controversy Salon

NPR

• Ira Glass: I Don't Understand Why NPR Is Not Fighting Back--After a while, they issued a statement.
• The editing of that NPR video
• Undercover video of NPR executive was taken too far

War on Terror

• BBC claims Al Qaeda a concoction by the US government
• Jon Stewart: I Accept Your Apology, Mr. Rumsfeld
• Texas Student Khalid Aldawsari Arrested on Terror Charges; Targeted George W. Bush
• 9/11 Experiments: The Great Thermate Debate
• The Liberty Underground: What is Really Happening in Iraq
• Al Qaeda Populating U.S. With Peaceful 'Decoy Muslims' The Onion

Bullying

• Bully power-slammed into concrete by fed-up kid victim
• At White House Conference, President Obama, First Lady Focus on Bullying
• 'Seth's Law' to Prevent Anti-Gay Bullying at California Schools Introduced
• Facebook's New Social Safety Features Lets Users Confront Bullies, Ask Friends for Help
• Friends of Brighton woman say web bullies drove her to kill herself
• Pain May Be Pleasurable for Some Bullies
• Teen Arrested for Creating Website to Bully Other Teen

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

New stories:

• The Christmas Journal 12 by F_R_Eaky
• Embracing True Colors by Farenheit80
• The Good Freak 7 by AKA
• Mr. Ross 7 by Londonboy
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 7 by Alyn Roze

Happy Pi Day

• How to Celebrate Pi Day
• What Pi Sounds Like--Can be done with Chess too
• Pi in the sky

Fun with Math

• Mathmatical proof of STUDY=FAIL?
• Fibonacci Spiral
• Möbius Story: Wind and Mr. Ug

Space

• The Universe to Scale--Reminded me of one of my favorite Simpsons openings
• Beautiful Time-Lapse of Milky Way over Lake Tahoe
• Voyager: Still dancing 17 billion km from Earth
• Man uses computers to discover four planets--With no telescope.
• "The 4 Percent Universe": Dark matter and dueling scientists Salon
• Black Hole Blows Huge Bubble: Big Pic
• How to Make a Bigger Black Hole Jet
• The Earth -- For Physicists
• Have scientists discovered proof our universe wasn't the first?
• What Came 'Before' the Big Bang? --Here's one theory.

Time Travel

• Why Time Travel Will Never Work
• 6 Time Travel Realities Doc Brown Didn't Warn Us About
• Time travel experiment demonstrates how to avoid the grandfather paradox

Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space

New stories: The Good Freak 6 by AKA, The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 6 by Alyn Roze and Titanification 3 by Jaypat

New stories:

• The Good Freak 6 by AKA
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 6 by Alyn Roze
• Titanification 3 by Jaypat

Websites collect clueless, racist internet comments made about Japan, post-quake--Abhorrent lack of historical knowledge on display.

Religion

• A blow to religious freedom in Pakistan
• London imam subjected to death threats for supporting evolution --He has since had to retract his statements.
• Afghan Red Cross worker set to be hanged after converting to Christianity
• Peter King's subversive fantasy
• Mistaken for Muslims, Sikhs hit by hate crimes
• Professor fired over views on Israel gets job back
• Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages

Fucks News: We Distort, You Abide

• Fox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee to Lie, Records Show--Is this enough for an indictment?
• Former Fox News employee: 'Stuff is just made up'
• O'Reilly splices in footage of another protest to make WI protests appear violent
• Confronted with clear falsehood, Fox News scraps its "zero tolerance" policy--Which didn't last long.
• Fox News advocates shutting down public libraries
• Fox News Apologizes for Ron Paul Mistake
• Fox Claims Wikipedia Whitewashes Obama's Past

New stories: The Good Freak 5 by AKA, Jacob’s Cousin--Muscular Stud by R Christopher Cooper and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 5 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• The Good Freak 5 by AKA
• Jacob’s Cousin--Muscular Stud by R Christopher Cooper
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 5 by Alyn Roze

Tim DeChristopher: A Monkey Wrencher comes to Trial

Facebook and Your Privacy

• The Facebook Setting You Should Change as Quickly as Possible
• Facebook Wants to Supply Your Internet Driver's License
• Facebook plans to resume address, phone sharing--And here's how to prevent it.
• Why the Facebook Like Button Change is a 'Bait and Switch'
• Singel-Minded: Facebook Comments Are Another ‘Good News, Bad News’ Proposition
• The Facebook Breakup Notifier: Stalk someone you like
  
• Why Facebook is selling you out -- and won't stop

Do you own the gadgets you buy?

Sony and Your Hardware

• Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators
• Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site
• Donations pour in for PS3 hacker; Sony court battle continues
• Police Raid Graf_Chokolo's House - In Response Graf Releases "Hypervisor Bible"
• PSN hack lets users unban themselves, ban others

BBC video on hardware hacking

Corporations vs. Consumers

• Supreme Court: AT&T can't keep bad behavior a secret--Corporations don't have rigth to privacy as individuals do.
• Web retailer finds profit in bullying customers
• Google sucker-punches online retail bully
• Wordpress resists Canon attempt to take down Fake Canon blog
• Top Security Firm RSA Tries to Silence Blog
• Towing Co. Loses Half Its Accounts After Suing Over Facebook Page
• Nestlé backs down before the Facebook mob

F_ck Yeah Headlines--"Each weekday I find a headline on a major news site, and illustrate it without reading a word of the story."

New stories: Doctor's Orders by kurtanglefan_11 and hypnojon32, The Good Freak 4 by AKA and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 4 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• Doctor's Orders by kurtanglefan_11 and hypnojon (hypno)
• The Good Freak 4 by AKA
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 4 by Alyn Roze

NPR: Help us figure out which Senator killed Whistleblower Protection

Wisconsin

• In Wisconsin, GOP maneuver pushes anti-union bill forward--Senate Republicans omit financial provisions from legislation to curb public workers' collective bargaining rights, skirting a requirement that a quorum be present.
• WI Senate GOP Leader Admits On-Air That His Goal Is To Defund Labor Unions, Hurt Obama’s Reelection Chances
• Scott Walker Believes He's Following Orders from the Lord

NH GOP Seeks To Disenfranchise Students Who 'Just Vote Their Feelings'

Net Neutrality

• House subcommittee votes to kill net neutrality--After the GOP passed an amendment to block its funds.
• Net Neutrality, Back in Court--"The choice for American consumers is between the open broadband they have come to expect — in which they can view any content from sources big and small — and a walled garden somewhat like cable TV, where providers can decide what we can see, and at what price."
• Comcast-NBC approval protects business Internet, accidentally
• Defining Internet 'Freedom': Ars Interviews Senator Al Franken
• Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
• The Importance of Net Neutrality--A lot of the comments are blatant astroturfing came up here.

Internet 'kill switch' bill gets a makeover--This sorely misguided bill now espouses "internet freedom". How Orwellian.

Astroturfing

• The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
• Corporate-Funded Online 'Astroturfing' Is More Advanced and More Automated Than You Might Think
• Army of fake social media friends to promote propaganda--More on the HBGary scheme to poison the online conversation
• Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
• Koch Industries Employs PR Firm To Airbush Wikipedia, Gets Banned For Unethical 'Sock Puppets'
• Prominent Conservative Radio Hosts Planted Scripted Actors Among Callers
• DOD's propaganda plan to develop automated Internet sock-puppets and Troll Brigades

NPR caves to O'Keefe -- and we all lose Salon

New stories: Be Careful What You Ask For (Brainwashed) by PutU2Sleep, The Christmas Journal 11 by F_R_Eaky and The Good Freak 3 by AKA

New stories:

• Be Careful What You Ask For (Brainwashed) by PutU2Sleep (hypno)
• The Christmas Journal 11 by F_R_Eaky
• The Good Freak 3 by AKA

The War on Women--"Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer screenings and cut nutritional support for millions of newborn babies in struggling families. And this is just the beginning."

Women's Day

• Australian newscaster hits co-anchor with scathing innuendo--Belinda Heggen explains her dig at Mark Aiston
• Woman Says Citibank Fired Her Because She Was Too Hot
• Women: Do You Work Just for the Sake of Working?--That's what someone from Wal-Mart says.
• Saudi Woman Punches Religious Policeman Who Stops Her for Questioning
• Sex and the City fan beds 1,000 men
• Heidi Taillefer's Venus Envy painting

Studies

• Women Apologize More Frequently Than Men
• Study Shows Women Attracted to Men in Red
• Science Explains Why Humor Turns Women On--Jessica Rabbit said it best: "He makes me laugh."

Feminism

• Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men--Here's a few of who made major contributions.
• How feminist blogs like Jezebel gin up page views by exploiting women's worst tendencies
• Memo to Swedish Feminists: Burning Money Does Not Solve the Wage Gap

Fat Tuesday

• Military mess halls: Fried, fatty, processed foods and sugary drinks are hurting our armed forces
• 575-pound 'Heart Attack Grill' spokesman dies at 29
• Doctors Need to Tell Patients They're Overweight: Study
• Jamie Oliver in a food fight -- a fattening-food fight
• Weight of the world: Change in the world's BMI since 1980
• Americans Are Now Fat Enough to Require Larger Ambulances
• Super Size Me? How About My Car?
• Clash over beauty queen title turns ugly
• Calvin Klein: The Incredible Bulk

New stories: The Good Freak 2 by AKA, Muscle Fantasy 6 Island by Londonboy, and Titanification 2 by Jaypat

New stories:

• The Good Freak 2 by AKA
• Muscle Fantasy 6 Island by Londonboy
• Titanification 2 by Jaypat

Speaking out

• 'America Is NOT Broke': Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI--Here's the transcript.
• Throw Clarence Thomas Off the Bench--Clarence Thomas' Criminal Behavior on Financial Disclosure
• From No 1 fan to critic-in-chief, Damon takes aim at Obama--"I think he's rolled over to Wall Street completely."

Bradley Manning

• U.N. to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning--The DOD won't even let a US Representative check on him. Why hasn't Obama said anything?
• PayPal Freezes Account of Group Raising Money for Bradley Manning--It's been unfrozen (fairly quickly at that) and they say it had "nothing to do with Wikileaks."
• Wikileaks: Suspect Bradley Manning faces 22 new charges
• Justice Cranks Up Its Covert War on Whistleblowers
• In restricted speech, former MI6 chief credits WikiLeaks with ‘tidal wave’ of revolutions

REAL ID

• Terror Arrest Does Not Justify REAL ID Revival
• House Republicans Push Obama Administration to Implement National ID System
• REAL ID Drivers License Deadline for States Postponed Until 2013

FBI

• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back --The student has now filed a lawsuit.
• EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations
• Feds appealing warrantless wiretapping court defeat
• FBI: Web-based Services Hurting Wiretapping Efforts
• The NSA wiretapping story nobody wanted,
• U.S. Is Working to Ease Wiretaps on the Internet
  
• ‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years
• FBI compounds mystery with secret justification of gag order
• I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions

New stories: Chris's Work Week by z119z (hypno), The Good Freak by AKA, and A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action 3 by muscl4life

New stories:

• Chris's Work Week by z119z (hypno)
• The Good Freak by AKA
• A (Very Peculiar) Civil Action 3 by muscl4life

Pentagon Tries to Blame Financial Crisis on Foreign Financial Terrorists

Republicans

• The GOP is F***ing up the economy on purpose so they can blame it on Obama
• House GOP votes unanimously to protect big oil subsidies
• Publicly accessible product safety database hits House roadblock
• Ohio Republicans 'balance budget' by banning legal protections for gay couples
• What Republicans are Counting on Us to Forget

Muslims

• Sen. Knotts Calls Haley a 'Raghead,' Says "We're at war over there"
• Bradley Strott Stabs Samad Ebadi in the Neck Because He's a Muslim
• Hate Comes to Orange County--Tea Partyers crash fundraiser to help women and the homeless.

Racism

• KS GOP Rep. Connie O'Brien Says She Can Tell Who Is 'Illegal' Because They Have 'The Olive Complexion'
• Do Denmark's immigration laws breach human rights?
• Guess Who's Coming To Riverdale?
• Why Chris Nolan's BATMAN Isn't Racist
• Racism in America--As per Frank Boyle.
• Penny Arcade: Something To Consider
• Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult The Onion

New stories: I Met Two Huge Musclemen at the Gym by R Christopher Cooper and Pete's Gym by Touchstone and The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 3 by Alyn Roze

New stories:

• I Met Two Huge Musclemen at the Gym by R Christopher Cooper
• Pete's Gym by Touchstone (hypno)
• The Sorcerer's New Apprentice 3 by Alyn Roze

DOMA

• Obama Won't Go to Court Over Defense of Marriage Act--Not worth defending.
• Obama sets a marriage trap -- for Republicans Salon
• Marauding Gay Hordes Drag Thousands Of Helpless Citizens From Marriages After Obama Drops DOMA The Onion

US Supreme Court allows anti-gay funeral protests--As infuriating as those homophobic protests are, this is the right decision. As a fictional American president once said:

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.

Marriage Equality

• Civil unions now relationship options on Facebook
• Hawaii Lawmakers Approve Same-Sex Civil Unions
• Britain to legalise same-sex marriage
• Maryland same-sex marriage bill: House holdout Alston ready to vote, won't tip hand
• Obama extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners of gays
• Florida ends ban on gay, lesbian adoption
• National Organization for Marriage posts a pro-gay message ... sort of
• Anti-Gay Congressman Caught in Affair With Horse The Onion

White House Picks Openly Gay Jeremy Bernard As Social Secretary

Religion

• Anti-Decadence Pastor Accused Of Public Masturbation--"Grant Storms Has Been Vocal Opponent Of Gay Festival"
• Christian foster couple lose 'homosexuality views' case
• Christian B&B owners discriminated against gays, UK court finds
• Catholic college yanks courses by gay priest
• Catholics don't get to define my marriage — even if I am heterosexual
  

New Life's hero comes out--heroically --"When she informed church officials [of her sexual orientation], she said, they told her she was no longer welcome."

Schools

• Explaining American schools' gay bullying epidemic Salon
• To Block A Gay-Straight Alliance, Texas High School Shuts Down All Extracurricular Clubs
• Lesbian coach's departure stirs outcry in Nashville
• School fires gay netball coach
• Judge: Lesbian student's rights violated
• 'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science
• Rutgers' Gender-Neutral Housing Program Accomodates Gay Students

LGBT mortgages--This guide will help to explain the different approaches that same-sex couples can take to getting a mortgage, establishing ownership of a home, and creating legal documents that anticipate any legal or property-ownership issues that might occur if the couple breaks up or one partner dies.

New stories by Aardvark, CallMeCrazy, F_R_Eaky and Purplebootsgywr

New stories:

• The Christmas Journal 10 by F_R_Eaky
• The Photo Booth: A Collection of Transformations by Aardvark and CallMeCrazy
• Your Night to Remember by Purplebootsgywr (hypno)>

Libya

• US brands Muammar Gaddafi 'delusional' after interview
• Libya: African mercenaries 'immune from prosecution for war crimes'--"African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend's UN resolution that was demanded by the United States."
• Saif Gadaffi promises guns and reinforcements to murderous militias

Oscars

• Help Save The King's Speech By Refusing To See It--"That plan became a reality this week when the censored version of the film received the rating they wanted, and the R-rated version will be pulled from theaters and replaced with one that contains none of the curse words which earned the movie an R in the first place. "
• Charles Ferguson's Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: 'Inside Job' Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance-- "Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong."
• Gas industry attempted to block 'Gasland' from Oscars

Wisconsin

• Workers' Uprising: Americans Overwhelmingly on Public Workers' Side, Republicans Defect from Walker's Scorched-Earth Tactics
• Frostbite and Freedom: Tom Morello on the Battle of Madison
• 100K Turn Out In Madison For Largest Rally Since Vietnam War
• Why Wouldn't the Tea Party Shut It Down?
• The Group Behind The Group Behind That Sketchy Wisconsin Poll
• Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers
• Infographic on the relationship between the Koch Bros and Scott Walker

Fat Tuesday

• 'Cheeseburger bill' debate gets reheated in Legislature--Just passed its first house panel in Minnesota.
• Anti-McDonald's Ad Snubbed by South Florida Newspapers and TV Stations
• Happy Meals ban in Santa Clara County
• Time to Trim--Tackling Childhood obesity
• Huckabee And Christie Defend First Lady's Obesity Campaign Against Right-Wing Attacks
• Eating greens 'best way to look good', research shows
  
• FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable" The Onion

New stories: The Dorm by RdyRoger, Muscle Fantasy Island 5 by Londonboy, and Titanification by Jaypat

New stories:

• The Dorm by RdyRoger
• Muscle Fantasy Island 5 by Londonboy
• Titanification by Jaypat

Why Save PBS? --If that doesn't grab you, go listen to Mr. Rogers' stirring 1969 defense of public broadcasting.

Wisconsin

• More than 70,000 protesters participate in rally at Capitol
• Wisconsin Police Have Joined Protest Inside State Capitol
• Ex-AG sees violations by Walker in stunt call

Bush

• Fox legal analyst: Bush should have been indicted
• Remember The Legacy Of George Bush
• Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

Obama

• Jon Stewart on Obama's Bush-Like Abuses of Power
• Obama signs temporary extension of Patriot Act--Yes, he can.
• The Secrets of Obama's Underappreciated Success--Written last year, still true today? Rahm has gone. House Dems got eaten alive during the mid-terms. (Then again, that's what they get for playing fair with the always-bipartisan Republicans.)

Repubs and the Rich

• The Republican Shakedown
• Ron Paul: The Tea Party Is Now Corporately Owned
• REPORT: You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes
• Visualizing the wealth of America's super-rich ruling class
• Tax Loophole for $5 Billion Payday?
• The Solution to Our Budget Problems Is So Obvious: We Need to Raise Taxes on the Rich, ASAP
• New York State is broke, but Gov. Cuomo joins GOP push to spare wealthy

New stories: Embacing Life by Farenheit80, Kaos Presents: Life 2.0 by xythan_shadow, and Tim's Adventure 20 by Wordshop

New stories:

• Embracing Life by Farenheit80
• Kaos Presents: Life 2.0 by xythan_shadow
• Tim's Adventure 20 by Wordshop

TSA

• TSA cheat sheet: know your rights!
• GOP House chair pushing TSA privatization while contractor is campaign donor
• TSA Screeners At JFK Admit To Stealing $160K From Passengers--What do you think?
• Stay Classy, TSA
• TSA bans bikini woman for ‘unusual contour’ around buttocks
• TSA Fails to Stop Wheelchair User Placed on the Wrong Flight by Delta
• Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks
• As frustration grows, airports consider ditching TSA
• Sea-Tac Café Is Now Refusing to Serve TSA Agents

Porn Scanners

• Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners
• Speaking As A Grown Up
• TSA Bars AK State Rep. Sharon Cissna from flying--She didn't want her mastectomy scar touched
• TSA Source: Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
• Traveller re-enters USA without passing through a pornoscanner or having his genitals touched
• Senate tackles misuse of body-scan images
• People Who Touch Your Junk Venn
• 'Naked scanners': Lobbyists join the war on terror
• Cover of the Day
  

Security Theater

• Restoring sanity to airport security
• Support Grows for Tiered Screening at Airports
• So much for airport security: Man 'smuggled 80 guns into Britain' by hiding them in suitcases
• Airport security officials brand three inch toy gun "firearm"
• Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane