On a more serious note, Bacha Bazi is an Afghan tradition meaning boy play, in which teenage boys are forced to dress as women, perform dances with bells on their hands and feet, and be auctioned off to the men watching for sexual pleasures later. Seems the Catholic church isn’t the only offender these days.
This picture scares me more than anything else I’ve posted on here.
Which would you rather lose? The right to bear arms or the right to vote. America was put to the task of answering this question, and the votes were tallied by state. Via.
The Beast File (the people behind the “Google: Don’t Be Evil” video) have done it again, this time singling out the Catholic church for it’s proudest scandal in history, dating back 2000 years.
And to prove this, someone did an analysis of the fines of 7 crimes in comparison to downloading music. The full article is here. Thinking about file-sharing? Don’t. You’ll get fined, and crime doesn’t pay (unless you rob banks and/or armored cars, then it pays very well). Take it from Jammie Thomas, who was fined…
Now I don’t normally post this kind of news, but when I started to think about it I just couldn’t believe the statistic. More here. Go New Jersey! For the first time in more than 40 years, an entire calendar month has come and gone without a homicide in [New Jersey]’s largest city.It’s been 32…
I think the whole article is worth giving a gander, but here are the key points. In 1974 researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institute of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of…
Due to a recent ruling on a Supreme Court case, the 5 year old company Murray Hill Inc decided to run for office. Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today announced it was filing to run for…
I’ve been saying this for a while, but it’s only recently that I’ve realized that someone has done statistical analysis on the subject and proven my point. It’s a long read, so here are some of the highlights. The prize for the single most inconsistent forecast goes to Channel 5’s Devon Lucie who on Sunday,…