She is charged with the attempted murder of a woman she believed to be her rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut. Police officials say she drove 900 miles to Florida from Texas, wearing a diaper so she would not have to stop for rest breaks. In Orlando, they say, she confronted her rival in a parking lot, attacking her with pepper spray.

Captain Nowak was in disguise at the time, wearing a wig, the police said. She had with her a compressed air pistol, a steel mallet, a knife, pepper spray, four feet of rubber tubing, latex gloves and garbage bags.

Why couldn't this scenario have happened in space? That would be so Sci-Fi...

From Spaceflight to Attempted Murder Charge - New York Times

Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all. They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own. In some cases, children are confined and denied normal social interaction with other people.

So do you adopt these things via a pet rescue or through regular means? Oh, and there are pics.

FeralChildren.com | Feral children: isolated, confined, wild and wolf children

Colbert on O'Reilly:

O'Reilly on Colbert:

Colbert meets O'Reilly

A campy Mormon theology cartoon which makes them seem more like sci-fi enthusiasts than Mormons. More like Scientologists maybe...

YouTube - Story of Mormonism - Real Mormon theology revealed

Edge Designs is an all-women run company that designs interior office space. They had a recent opportunity to do an office project in NYC. The client allowed the women of this company a free hand in all design aspects. The client was a company that was also run by all women execs. The result, well, we all know that men never talk, never look at each other, and never laugh much in the restroom. The men's room is a serious and quiet place, but now, with the addition of one mural on the wall......lets just say the men's restroom is a place of laughter and smiles.

I was sent this image and figured I would share. Unfortunately there are not embedded images here so clink on the linky

Men's Room Mural

As U.S. leaders struggle to communicate with people in the Middle East, they might look to musician Lionel Richie for inspiration.

In the current issue of GQ magazine, writer Andrew Corsello reports that Richie has become a musical phenomenon in the Arab world.

Host Mike Pesca speaks with him about Richie's appeal in that region.

Apparently, Lionel Richie is the new Messiah.

NPR : Lionel Richie: The Key to Peace in the Middle East

Mike the Usurper wrote:

The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What an enormous pile of crap.

I want a picture of Kim on a segway!

"GO! Super Death Chariot Scooter of DOOM! Kim Kim go Vroom! Vroom!"

RE: U.S. bans sale of iPods to North Korea - Yahoo! News

Get together with fellow Freethinkers at this seasonal bash sponsored by American Atheists!

The Venue: The Winter Solstice Gala venue is the luxurious Crowne Plaza Hotel (Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor), Clark NJ just off exit 135 of the Garden State Parkway, and two miles from the Rahway Train Station for convenient access to New York City. There is also the Metro Park Station for New Jersey Transit and AMTRAK. You may make shuttle arrangements with the Crowne Plaza. The hotel is located at 36 Valley Road, Clark, NJ 07066, phone 732-574-0100.

Atheists throwing a pagan-esque party. Interesting...

American Atheists - Winter Solstice Celebration 2006

skullaria wrote:
"Dr. Eric Keroack
On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation's family-planning program got a new boss who doesn't believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms "offer virtually no protection" against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. "

Apparently, you're just a hapless prairie vole who doesn't know what's good for her. :)

I loves dis corn... i want no udder"

RE: Bush appointee for family planning 'NO BIRTH CONTROL' WTF?

Rattle wrote:

Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist who helped shape and define free-market economic theory, died Thursday at the age of 94 in San Francisco.

RIP.. We owe much to Friedman.

Do you think instead of going to heaven, that he became CopyBot on Second Life?

RE: Nobel economist Milton Friedman dead at 94 - Nov. 16, 2006