Humor

A novel way of establishing one's patriarchal authority: > Marlon Brando Gill may have taken AT&T's "reach out and touch someone" slogan too far, according to officials. Police have charged the Missouri man with felony assault, suspecting that Gill crammed a cell

> Time has named former Presidents Bush and Clinton the partners of the year. These two are now so close they're thinking about making a cowboy movie.

Top strange stories of 2005 [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051218/od_afp/yearoffbeatstrange;_ylt=ApNInJuwRLudSs_ZlgCTgAKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-] . There are some good ones in here.

> Remember when you used to tie the tree to the top of your car and drive home? Now our SUV's are so big, the trees fit inside. The new Cadillac Escalade actually has a Christmas tree holder on the dash. > That is a big controversy this

> A Peruvian woman spent a month in a male prison in Argentina after she was mistaken for a man. > And, when she was finally discovered and transferred to a women's jail, she asked to be transferred back.

From the New York Post: [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/58828.htm] > The MTA begins its crackdown on bad behavior Monday with a series of new rules prohibiting everything from rollerblading on the subway to putting your feet up on an empty seat. . . . > It will be a

How long until the EU makes such subsidies a fundamental human right? > When Jurgen turned 18, his mother Frie Van Acker told him all about sex and asked whether he would like to have sex. Jurgen indicated “No.” One evening three years later, however, he wrote on his computer:

Real estate developer forced to modify plans because the proposed digging would hurt the faeries: > Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000. His first notice of the

Both pro-choicers, I might add: > A busy time in the U.S. Senate, the "world's greatest deliberative body." Judging from the 2006 conference report, the Senate subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education -- Chairman Arlen Specter (R), ranking member Tom Harkin (D)