“Faced with some of the world’s strictest anti-drug laws, some addicts in Malaysia are sniffing fresh cow dung to get high,” CNN Europe reports. An official at the National Narcotics Agency said Thursday the problem was small but growing among addicts who cannot buy drugs. Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz was quoted in The New Straits Times newspaper Wednesday as saying she wanted the government to deal with addicts who sniff

“More than 20 years after he exchanged vows with Lady Diana Spencer in a fairy-tale ceremony billed as the wedding of the century, Britain’s Prince Charles may be one step closer to marrying the love of his life.” ABC News is reporting that “[t]he governing body of the Church of England this week voted to sanction the remarriage of divorced persons in the Church, even if a former spouse is

“Cattle rustling has a new face: A $3,200 fiberglass cow has been stolen from a Chick-Fil-A billboard near C-470 and Santa Fe Drive,” The Rocky Mountain News reports. The cow, one of the company’s well-known mascots urging customers to ‘Eat Mor Chikin,’ was apparently taken during the weekend by thieves with far too much time on their hands. They unbolted the 150-pound cow from the billboard and lowered it to

Professor Mona Baker. Professional Jew hater.

Two years and a fine my ass! I say we take this asshole out to a field and put a half-dozen slugs into him. I’ll bring the picnic basket. For afterwards, when I’m enjoying a nice tuna sandwich over his lifeless, bullet-riddled carcass. [Feel like helping? Donate here; more on this story here]

In the unlikely event you haven’t already done so, go read Mark Steyn’s National Post piece, “Whatever you do, don’t call it a hate crime.” Here, I’ll even get you started: Suppose it was Judy Garland’s birthday and I went to my local gay bathhouse and opened fire on the fetching young men handing out the towels. How many minutes would tick by before the word “homophobia” was heard? Or

Is the Prez “shredding the Constitution” by invoking his war time powers without Congress having first declared an official war? Many of Tom Tomorrow’s frenetic little gadflies seem to think so. But how has the Supreme Court interpreted the President’s war powers? And need it even do so [cough cough Dellums] in every scenario that involves U.S. military operations…?

[update: From Nature, “Palaeoanthropology: Hominid revelations from Chad“]