Not much in the way of quantity in store for y’all today… instead, we’ll be tweaking the site design (always striving to make it better), and watching football playoff games (always on the lookout for excuses to drink beer). More this evening — the protein wisdom crew

A follow-up to our entry on Manuela Ruda and her husband, the London vampire duo who slaughtered a German friend, drank his blood, then (for dessert?) fornicated in some satin-lined coffins they keep lying around… From The Telegraph: “A woman who says she and her husband killed a German friend with 66 knife wounds on orders from the devil has claimed that she became a satanist in Britain.” […] Manuela

Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas writes that volcanoes should better respect the people and animals who live around them…

“Airline security personnel at Phoenix’s international airport questioned a retired general and war hero about the Medal of Honor he was carrying before he boarded a flight to Washington, D.C.,” The Washington Times reports. “‘They just didn’t know what it was but they acted like I shouldn’t be carrying it on,’ retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph J. Foss of Scottsdale, Ariz., said yesterday in a telephone interview.” ‘I kept explaining