"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." - H. L. Mencken

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Pregnant 6 times by lover - "Pleading for leniency, lawyer P.O. Ram said his client, who came to know Mr Ng when she was 18 in 1996, paid for his car loans, petrol and other expenses including travel overseas. She also bought him expensive clothing, watches and his collections of gemstones, crystals and Chinese tea pots. Counsel said Mr Ng informed Leong he was married in 2007 but she continued to sacrifice herself for his love. Over a period of time, she became pregnant on six occasions and had terminated each of them. After her arrest, the lawyer said Mr Ng abandoned her. The lawyer said after serving her prison term, Leong hopes to 'impart her experience to other errant souls''."
Uhh.........

What Will Happen When You Move to Dubai - "You’ll quickly wisen up to the idea that money doesn’t talk, it shouts. And it’s not a nice sound. Wow. How do I even begin to convey the true extent of this? Capitalism on steroids is one way. Unreserved passion for money is another. Money really is everything here, is all I can say. Even if you like the sound and smell of money, you should really come live here for a while and see if it doesn’t sicken you just a little bit."

YouTube - Microsoft Songsmith Ad - ""Everyone Has A Song Inside" Yes it actually is real!"

Build your own Penrose triangle | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog - "It’s not impossible, because Jarek has shown that it can be done! There’s no photo-editing involved either. The whole process took him only five minute (four to find the camera batteries)!"

Who Would Jesus Smack Down? - Mark Driscoll, a Pastor with a Macho Conception of Christ - "what is new about Driscoll is that he has resurrected a particular strain of fire and brimstone, one that most Americans assume died out with the Puritans: Calvinism, a theology that makes Pat Robertson seem warm and fuzzy... What really grates is the portrayal of Jesus as a wimp, or worse. Paintings depict a gentle man embracing children and cuddling lambs. Hymns celebrate his patience and tenderness. The mainstream church, Driscoll has written, has transformed Jesus into “a Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ,” a “neutered and limp-wristed popular Sky Fairy of pop culture that . . . would never talk about sin or send anyone to hell.”... Reducing God to a projection of our own wishes trivializes divine sovereignty and fails to explain how both good and evil have a place in the divine plan. “There are plenty of comfortable people who can say, ‘God’s on my side,’ ” Harris says. “But they couldn’t turn around and say, ‘God gave me cancer.’ ”... the doctrine of total human depravity has always had a funny way of emboldening, rather than humbling, its adherents."
Caedite eos! Novit enim dominus qui sunt eius

Destroyed in Seconds: Freeway Carnage - "A disabled car sets off a chain reaction that turns a Los Angeles highway into automobile carnage... 'The city of Los Angeles is known for its fast freeway system... Which makes breaking down in the carpool lane all the more dangerous.'"
American driving FAIL

American Liberals Are Idiots. - "The much larger counter-protest devolved into surrounding the conservatives and shouting insults at them. Many called for the University to silence them. The liberals never saw the irony. Free speech means ALL speech. Those students had every right to protest that play, as the players had every right to put it on. Liberals have got to stop censoring opinions they do not agree with. It represents complete cowardice and self-righteousness. In this light, campus speech codes must be abolished outright... Ladies, pull your heads out of your asses. Stop the self-victimization escape of blaming men for all your problems. Take some responsibility for how you treat other women. Negative body image is not caused by a patriarchal society. Most men prefer women with curves. The fashion industry is controlled by gay men and other women, so stop blaming straight guys because you hate how you look... And congratulations ladies, you have successfully Oprah-ized the American male. The gender war is over, you won. Are you happy now? There are no real men any more because you have made masculinity a dirty word... You attacked men with emotion and not intellect, and as a result men have responded with emotion and not intellect. You have made us the weakest specimen of man to ever walk the planet. Is that really what you want?... I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to go to war protests and see huge parties of people marching to “Free the Cuban Five.” In our efforts to care as much as possible, we have developed ADD."

Rent-a-friend in Japan - "There is a service for women who are about to wed too. Apparently, they can practise for married life with a hired husband, although whether this involves seduction or sock washing is not exactly clear. And if things are not working out with a real husband, a woman considering a divorce may choose to hire a "mother" in order to discuss her marital anxieties."

'Carbon cost' of Google revealed - "US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims that a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g CO2. "

Ameobi's affairs in even worse mess than Magpies - "It was revealed this week that [Shola] Ameobi called the police because his house had been burgled -- only to discover that it had not actually been broken into at all. It turns out that he had left his pad in such a state of upheaval that when he unlocked the door and saw the mess he assumed the worst. Not being able to find his cheque book and other important items, Ameobi called 999. However, as he began sifting through the debris he realised his mistake and called the police again to tell them what had happened."

Global rush for 'best job in world' crashes Australian website - "Huge global interest in "the best job in the world" -- earning good money for lazing on a paradise island -- has crashed the Australian website where it is advertised, according to officials. "We've been inundated, with around 300,000 people visiting the site yesterday," said a spokeswoman for the Queensland state government, which is offering the six-month post of "island caretaker"... The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars (about 100,000 US dollars) and includes free airfares from the successful candidate's home country to tropical Hamilton Island on the famed Great Barrier Reef. In return, the winner will be expected to have as much fun as he or she can -- soaking up the sun, swimming, snorkelling, sailing -- and report to a global audience via weekly blogs, photo diaries and video updates. The successful candidate -- who will stay rent-free in a multi-million-dollar three-bedroom beach home -- must be over 18, a "fantastic and charismatic" communicator, and able to speak and write English."

Shafts of Sunlight - "The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day... So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is."
Most people with tough lives don't spend them writing poetry. If you have the time/energy/brain power to write poetry, your life probably isn't that tough after all