Ananova:

Dog-size rats take over power station
Rats the size of dogs which can even eat through concrete are threatening to plunge parts of Montenegro into darkness.
Workers at a hydroelectric power station on the River Piva say they are too scared to tackle rodents who are also gnawing their way through cables.
One worker told the local daily […]

WHY IS THIS MONTH SUCH BULLSHIT ARGH ARGH I HATE WRITING
Hey Thag: Here’s your thing.

Uh. Yeah. I know, I know, move along.

Anonymous was kind enough to correct me: It wasn’t all Millar. Which may actually be worse, because now I can’t blame it all on one dude with Issues.
Right - I was going to talk about the Spider-marriage, but I think we could all use a little refresher in recent comics history. So […]

Okay, this is some seriously classist shit:

[ Daring Fireball, 2006.04.06: ]
For people in the market for a new laptop and who are at least somewhat curious about Mac OS X, what reasons are there now not to buy a MacBook? (Feel free to use your imagination to fast-forward a few months to a time where […]

In Utah, anyway.

Senate: Incestuous dad knows best
Incest is no exception to a father’s right to know what’s going on in his daughter’s life.
That was the message from Utah lawmakers who refused Monday to make an exception for incest victims in a proposed law that would require parental consent and notification before […]

If you’ve got it, hit it. (and apparently you can donate straight from a Coinstar machine. that’s pretty cool.)
Julia’s massive linkdump here.
Now then. When under stress, people can say and do amazingly stupid things. Fine. All part of being human. Sometimes it’s just a total non-sequitur brainfart. Sometimes […]

(edit: interblog links to be added later. done.)
Lately there’s been some serious shit on sexism over at Pandagon. It started out from that Kos bullshit -
(this post continues in the link.)

CBC News, February 4 2005:
Members of the Toronto Police Service Child Exploitation Section and Toronto Crime Stoppers are trying to find the place where a nine-year-old girl was sexually abused two or three years ago.
If you have information about these locations call the Sex Crimes Unit at (416) 808-7474.

The kid’s been digitally removed so that […]

The official line:

Yuma Sun, May 20 2005:
YCSO says Corrales murder ‘lends itself’ to hate crime
BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, STAFF WRITER
May 20, 2005

Amancio Corrales, a 23-year-old Yuma man who was dressed as a woman when he was murdered, may have been the victim of a hate crime, according to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office.
“A hate crime is […]