"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself." - Henry Morgan

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Dress right for your body type - "If you have an…Inverted Triangle Body:
Characteristics: You are generally top-heavy (generous bust; full back and wide middle) Wear: Tops with narrow collars to avoid drawing too much attention to your full bust."
This is stupid. I thought they WANT to draw attention to a full bust.

PRISONS ACT - Corporal punishment - "No sentence of corporal punishment shall be passed upon — (b) a man sentenced by a court to death"
Ah, the small mercies in life. Someone: we can be the world's cruelest nation by having the death penalty as being rattaned to death

Singapore to buy 66 tanks from German army - "Singapore said Monday it will buy 66 refurbished Leopard 2A4 tanks from the German military to replace some of the city-state's AMX-13 SM1 tanks."
Yay, we're upgrading from 50 year old technology to 30 year old technology. But at least we won't only have toy tanks now.

The Straight Dope: Deck the halls with balls of fire: Why is it dangerous to burn wrapping paper? - "The fire is the wrong place for other holiday detritus as well — der Tannenbaum, for example. My assistant Una had an Uncle Bob, a manly man who felt throwing the Christmas tree away was a waste of good firewood. So he tossed it in the fireplace — gave him a nice warm glow. Unfortunately what was glowing was the roof, presumably ignited by embers. Fortunately the fire was small and anybody with a hose could have put it out. Unfortunately the hose was frozen solid and the fire department had trouble getting the nearest hydrant to work. Fortunately the firefighters were able to throw a ladder up against the house and put out the fire with a chemical extinguisher. They then hacked off a small hunk of charred roof with axes, peered into the crawl space, and declared the fire out. Unfortunately, having by now found an operational hydrant, the firemen declared they needed to hose down the roof "as policy," sending a torrent of water through the hole and collapsing the living room ceiling. Really unfortunately, the house that all this happened in belonged not to Uncle Bob but his in-laws. Bob bought them an RV and matters were pronounced square, but it was a lesson he won't soon forget, and neither should you."

Straight Dope Staff Report: Who has the power to arrest the President? - There is no ambiguity in the Constitution. If the Founding Fathers had intended to make it possible to arrest the President, they could have easily provided for it. They did not. The mischief that Impeachment is intended to address is found in the Constitution. It reads: "The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and misdemeanors." The Founding Fathers were addressing the possibility of the President being impeached. There is therefore no doubt whatever that this provision was never intended to cover the President being arrested.

Colorado Homeowner To Be Fined For Peace-Sign Wreath - "According to Bob Kearns, the association's president, three or four residents have complained and at least one believes Jensen's decoration is a symbol of Satan. "The peace sign has a lot of negativity associated with it. It's also an anti-Christ sign. That's how it started," said Kearns."

Facebook | Burning of books and the burial of scholars (Just kidding) - "This Saturday, we will revive a tradition made popular by two of the greatest leaders of the past -- Qin Shi Huang and Hitler, by burning books and hunting down and torturing scholars (by today's relaxed definitions, professors and students with a GPA of 4.0 and above). Feeding the fire with cheap vodka, bullshit class notes and books that the store refuses to take back, we will create the greatest bonfire of the century and through that, make a statement that will forever change the way education is conducted in this modern world."

Soy is making kids 'gay' - "Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them."
Wth is this guy on? Maybe he had too much soy. Oh wait. He's "chairman of Megashift Ministries and founder-chairman of Open Church Ministries". That explains it.

Top Ten Viral Videos - Free Viral Videos - View a Viral Video - "Here are some of the top viral videos around the Web today. A viral video is a video that has been passed around many times and has gained popularity largely by word of mouth, email, instant messaging, or online bulletin boards, rather than a publicity campaign. I've received all of these videos at least once by email."

DYSKE - ALLLOOKSAME?/TUTTTUGUALE?—Art from Japan, China and Korea - "I once wrote to a professor of philosophy, asking him why he never mentioned the similarities between the philosophies of certain Western philosophers and Eastern philosophies. In his response, although he agreed about the similarities, he said he could not write about them because he respected Eastern philosophies too much to speak of them “ignorantly.” He further explained that, to do an “authoritative” job, he must have much “deeper” knowledge of the entire system of thought, as well as the ability to read the original texts in the original language. This little vignette captures a uniquely Western tendency of thought; the attempt to dig “deeper” into the essence of an object, as opposed to extending one’s knowledge wider to see the relationship of the object to the whole. To the scholar above, “ignorance” consisted of not knowing deeply enough, but to an Eastern philosopher, “ignorance” would be not knowing widely enough."

Women talk thrice more - "It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man... the simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high... Dr Brizendine says the brain's "sex processor" - the areas responsible for sexual thoughts - is twice as big as in men than in women, perhaps explaining why men are stereotyped as having sex on the mind."

Fiji cabinet jobs in classifieds - "Cabinet posts are being advertised in Fiji's newspapers as the military regime attempts to give credibility to its interim government."

World War One Color Photos - Color Photos from World War I - "Although color photography was around prior to 1903, the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, patented the process in 1903 and developed the first color film in 1907. The French army was the primary source of color photos during the course of World War One."

Chinese Public Health Posters: Public Health Movement

Career Intensity Blog - David V. Lorenzo - "This week’s Business and the Bible Passage is from The Gospel of St. Mark, Chapter 10 verses 42–45."
Someone needs to cleanse the Temple again.