Rain, rain, go away

MOSCOW 5/28/09 - When a Russian woman was rebuffed in her marriage proposal, she then got her boyfriend drunk at their breakup dinner and proceeded to detonate fireworks on his penis. She now faces 12 years imprisonment. {metro}

LONG ISLAND 6/4/09 - A deli owner who made headlines when he showed mercy to a would be robber by brandishing his rifle and then giving the failed-con a loaf of bread and $40, was busted only 2 weeks later for selling weed pipes in his store. So much for compassionate care. {daily news}

MATTER 6/11/09 - For all you chem-heads, a new element has been introduced to the Periodic Table and it is the heaviest element on the table. To date scientist are still looking for a new name. {sari}

VRIGINIA 6/12/09 - To curb sexual activity, Virginia's largest women's prison has decided to segregate lesbian-LOOKING inmates from the rest of the population. {conan}

EARTH 6/14/09 - A 14 year old boy somehow survived a 30,000 mph pea-sized meteorite crashing into his hand. This is only the 2nd documented case of a non-fatal meteorite impact. {telegraph}

BRITAIN 6/29/09 - BBC News Magazine had a 13 year old trade in his ipod for a walkman and document his thoughts. Pretty funny stuff that makes me feel old as I rocked a walkman when I first moved to nyc.

A recent study states that 50% of women have used a vibrator and more than 45% of men have incorporated them into their sex lives. Granted the study was done by Trojan Condoms, but here's to vibrating pleasure!

April Showers

- The Washington Post reported that Obama recently met with the [Grateful] Dead. "After admiring the Scarlet Begonias, the band went next door to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to meet with the most prominent Deadheads in the Obama White House: senior advisors David Axelrod and Pete Rouse, and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina. All three are planning to go to tonight's one and only Dead show in Washington..." {g.kral}

-Apparently there's this electric cigarette that vaporizes nicotine, thus eliminating the most harmul part: smoke. Check it out HERE. {jc}

-Gothamist recently made me aware of this sad craze of "Pumping Parties" where people who can't afford legitimate silicone implants, take a DIY approach and inject themselves with "industrial-grade silicone, available at most hardware stores.... but one E.R. doctor says substitutes like castor oil, mineral oil, petroleum jelly and even automobile transmission fluid have been used."

-Happy Holidaze for all my heads!

Spring Chickens

~ A SF writer postulates on using boobs as an energy source HERE.

~ Props to Kal Penn for ditching Hollywood for eastside's Tinseltown and becoming the associate director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Sounds like a great PR gig for a stoner from Jers. Go Brown!!!

~ From the land down under, we get reports of a mother arrested for drunk driving and breast feeding AT THE SAME TIME!!! HERE.

~ Fox news told me that Obama hosted a seder dinner in honor of the chosen's tribe Passover holiday. However, unlike Clinton who did the same, Obama actually attended the dinner. Le Chaim!

~ And some news to put you in your place this Spring Friday:
One of this year's NYTimes scholarship winners is "a 20-year-old who immigrated from China with her parents in 2007 (but her parents returned, because it was too tough), makes $560/month and pays $550 in rent, leaving $10/month, 'which she spends carefully on large bags of rice, chicken leg quarters at 49 cents a pound, and whatever vegetables are cheapest.' Thanks to 'two free meals a day at school, a student MetroCard and the unexpected kind act— her English teacher, for instance, gave her $100,' she manages—and has a 93 average at her high school."

"Which way to the Ground Zero Giftshop?"

{Doyle}

-The NZ Herald reports that "The severed head of King Badu Bonsu II is going home to Ghana, around 170 years after it was hacked off in retaliation for the slayings of two Dutch emissaries whose skulls were hung from the tribal leader's throne."

-Scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have developed a form of polyurethane that repairs itself under ultraviolet light. {sciencemag.org}

-A Queens, NY construction worker used the financial whore Bernie Madoff's prison inmate number to win $1500 in the State lottery.

-Finally, peep the American tide HERE. {vivs}

Asian Spacian Racian: India vs. China

India threw its turban into the ring as it launched an unmanned probe to the moon last Wednesday.

Fin-job

Ayveq, the famous masturbating walrus from the NY Aquarium on Coney Island, died yesterday.....

"But the spirit of Ayveq lives on in his still-unnamed newborn. An Aquarium source told me that the tot has already discovered Ayveq’s secret pleasure spot and has started to entertain himself, even though he’s just three-and-a-half-months old.

Like father, like son."

{brooklynpaper}

great story

Read more of a this awesome story here.

{bernard}

Sweet Dreams

Albert Hoffman, the creator of LSD (acid), died yesterday at the age of 102.

Don't Try This At Home

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Made in India

After 40 hours of surgery she is on the road to recovery with 4 less limbs.



........she is kinda adorable.

Mr. DNA is racist

The Nobel Peace Prize winner for describing the double helix model of DNA as well as the head of the Human Genome Project, James D. Watson, was forced into retirement last week after he made comments alluding to a belief that people of African descent were less intelligent than those of European descent.

Now the whole taking-things-out-of-context argument can be leveraged but it is slightly disconcerting that the man who ran the program that is responsible for mapping the code of all life has, if only tinges of, these beliefs. He argues that people of differing geographical locations can't be expected to develop the same which I understand but to then make the jump to the fact that intelligence is one of those differences is kind of shady in my book.

Read the article and see for yourself.