Travels with Headcase

PROUST OF THE ROOST‏

This issue: Sun 2/07/10 11:42 AM

Copied shamelessly without permission and in its entirety from Master of Blogz, Corey W. of Seattle, Warshington.  Collection of well prepared nuggets of web information…

Hi hi hi and ho ho ho, it’s the home of the links your into, bro!

American war vets (aged 18-29) continue to have a statistically insane suicide rate.  Like, eighteen a day.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/11/national/main6083072.shtml

http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_truth_about_veteran_suicides

Webster’s getting banned from southern Cali elementary schools because it contains dirty stuff like the definition of “oral sex.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/25/oral-sex-dictionary-ban-us-schools

Christian right in Georgia want to see teen prostitutes punished and shamed, not coddled and counseled.
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/02/01/georgias-christian-right-comes-out-against-bills-aimed-at-child-prostitution/

Her uncle sexually abused her as a child, photographed it, and shared the pix with the world.  Now she wants everyone who ever downloaded those pix to pay her.  And she’s not alone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/03offender.html?hp

Psychologist Susan A. Clancy researches child sexual abuse victims, comes to conclusions that no one can bear or bother to understand.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/26zuger.html

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2010/01/18/trauma_myth_interview/index.html

Who will fill their shoes?  They’re banning bestiality porn in the Netherlands.
http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE61137420100202

Your baby’s DNA is gathered and stored by the U.S. government.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/index.html?hpt=C2

Preposterous North Face trademark infringement suit garners cheeky response from future defendant, South Butt.
http://consumerist.com/2010/02/south-butt-rebuts-north-face.html

Spray-on silicone dioxide (liquid glass) to change the world?
http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html

Scientists trick slime mold into entertaining humans.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/121/1

Dude loses fingertip to magnets that just can’t be kept apart.  Ouchie pix.
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/guy_loses_finger_to_neodymium.php

Why does time pass more quickly as we age?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122322542

You are more likely to be murdered for a karaoke rendition of “My Way” than for any other song.  At least in the Philippines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/world/asia/07karaoke.html

Two crocs in Britain have apparently taken to name-calling.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7053745/British-crocodiles-taught-to-recognise-their-names.html

Who is that whale?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6764-lonely-whales-song-remains-a-mystery.html

PIX

Wildlife photographer of the year gets his title yanked for wolf photo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/wolf-wildlife-photographer-award-stripped#

Statue groping.  Everybody’s doing it.
http://www.photocliches.com/search/label/Statue%20Groping

Zoo animals in Germany winter slide show.  Last pic is the best.
http://www.thelocal.de/gallery/news/807/

Sloths of Panama slide show.  Including grumpy sloth!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8498000/8498058.stm

Leopard vs. porcupine.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7136786/Pictured-amazing-moment-leopard-loses-fight-with-prickly-porcupine.html

Way too many panda cubs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1248678/Panda-monium-Sixteen-panda-cubs-pose-class-shot-day-nursery.html

Caterpillar says “hi.”
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4972485-lg.jpg

Platypus hand warmers.
http://dailysquee.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/129077993331390866.jpg

Wait a sec.  Am I the only one who sees a similarity between this panda pic and this album cover?

MOVIETIME!

Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, is back with new vids!  My faves:
Oil addiction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHYU3u0pPOM

What marriage is (according to the bible).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw

And all that,
Jim-Jim the dancing monkey pants

CORNOCOPIA OF SEXUAL DYSTOPIA‏

this iss: Sun 1/31/10 3:23 PM

Well, hello there and welcome to a special sex-soaked edition of da Hotlinx!
Except it’s not so much sexy as sex-challenged.

Another pair of kids “sext” and are now facing felony charges.  Enjoy probation you little perverts!
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0128102text1.html?link=rssfeed

In Papua New Guinea, a young man sexts a young woman.  Tribal violence erupts.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/27/2802857.htm

Australia is now banning porn featuring female ejaculation (’cause women having squirty orgasms is, like, peeing or something). It’s still OK if guys spray semen all over women’s faces, though.  Oh, and no more porn actresses with A-cup boobies.  You don’t look adult enough.  You look like child pron.
A pop-up will obscure the article, but you can close it easily, so don’t miss this one!
http://www.sexparty.org.au/index.php/press-releases/619-depictions-of-female-orgasm-being-banned-by-classification-board

Jamie Leigh Jones’s “work injury” (AKA gang rape-by-co-workers), continues to be contested by Halliburton/KBR.  Funny guy Al Franken drafted legislation to allow people to file claims against defense contractors in such cases, which Obama has signed into effect.  Thanks, Jefferson.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/26/kbr-jones-appeal/

Two Tennessee women have sex with dude for a pack of cigarettes.  The sex wasn’t much fun, so they filed a rape charge against him.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0128101cigs1.html

If you’re a woman having surgery in a Canadian teaching hospital, some students might come in and do a pelvic exam on you while you’re under anesthesia.  And they don’t have to ask your permission.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/time-to-end-pelvic-exams-done-without-consent/article1447337/#

Coerced reproduction for girls.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/232542

Grandma likes sexting, too!
http://www.aarp.org/family/love/articles/sexting_not_just_for_kids.html

Italy is opening it’s first prison for transgender people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7092137/Italy-opens-first-prison-for-transsexuals.html

Pakistan’s hijra community seeing a societal change in attitudes about MTF transgender folks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/29/hijra-pakistan-transgender-rights

Former CIA douchebag John Kiriakou retracts prior statements about the effectiveness of waterboarding.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/26/cia_man_retracts_claim_on_waterboarding?page=full

Real estate boom in China means thousands upon thousands of people have been forced out of their homes.  Just like in Avatar!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7103231/China-moves-to-calm-unrest-over-property-seizures.html

China bans Avatar from theaters.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/media/entertainment-/entertainment/China-irked-by-political-message-bans-Avatar/articleshow/5479805.cms

It’s nice to know teenagers can bully a peer into suicide without having to suffer any legal consequences.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/24/the_untouchable_mean_girls/

Detroit. Freezers full of unclaimed bodies and neither relatives nor the city can afford to bury them.  Curiously, this story seems to be almost blog-exclusive.  I don’t see U.S. papers covering it, even though Shanti Das (former Motown/Uni exec) has set up a non-profit organization with major contributions from Akon and Busta Rhymes.  Is the story too shameful or too Black to report?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6926247.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

http://hothiphopdetroit.com/uncategorized/whtd/busta-rhymes-and-akon-contribute-to-bury-unclaimed-deceased-detroit-residents/

Bellevue, WA couple starves baby for being too fat.  I think it’s telling that the mother’s name is Brittainy.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/414685_starve26.html

Indians protest the culture of bribery by carrying zero rupee notes.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/paying-zero-public-services

Philadelphia woman gets a surprise when she picks up a stick in a parking lot.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100127_Phila__Zoo_called_to_action_to_save_Md__cobra_victim.html

Moscow has 35,000 stray dogs roaming it’s streets and even riding it’s trains.  Wildlife biologist and wolf specialist Andrei Poyarkov has been studying them for 30 years.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/628a8500-ff1c-11de-a677-00144feab49a.html

Dog rescue on the Baltic sea.  Brrrr!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246539/Baltic-mongrel-lucky-escape-drifting-20-miles-sea-ice-floes.html

PIX

Alex Wild is a biologist and photographer.  He likes photographing insects and arachnids and stuff.
http://myrmecos.wordpress.com/

Mr. owl goes fast.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SqhhJb_P3Kk/S1O8xhhBBQI/AAAAAAAAKsw/uFhHsEdui5o/s1600-h/owl+in+flight.jpg

Blaaarrrg!  Mr. Bulldog likes to swim.  Thanks, Krispijin.
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktce4sFRPm1qz7tiao1_500.jpg

AUDIO!

In 1957 Buddy Holly called Paul Cohen of Decca about the status of his expired contract and whether or not he could record different versions of songs he had already recorded for Decca.  Apparently, Mr. Holly recorded the conversation.  Welcome to the majors, Buddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHw5hEUPq38

MOVITIME!

Hey, let’s check out those crystal caves in Mexico some more!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8466493.stm

Royal de Luxe invade Santiago, Chile with one of their giant marionettes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlVjKPOcltE

Gosh gobblety,
Lancy Mavis