wow, this makes PETA seem sweet and cuddly

Check out this fantastic new "report" from the Onion News Network. It's a barely veiled attack on animal testing.

Study: Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful To Monkeys

airbrushing! hooray!

Here's a great article from Huffington Post about finding two different versions of a magazine photograph. Yikes. Lighter skin, slimmed waist and stomach, and airbrushed thighs. Says a lot about our priorities...

I Love Assassinations. But only if we don't tell anyone about it. Shhhh...

Not much to say to this, except for something that doesn't surprise me it certainly makes me sick to my stomach.

Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight

You've gotta love this post from funnyordie, Will Farrell's website. In an Obama world, you gotta have a black friend. Of course, I'm not sure what to do if you have a bunch of black friends...one of mine suggested I auction him off on Ebay and write a paper about it, and I'm not sure if that's (a) the most screwed up thing I've ever heard, (b) the geekiest thing I've ever heard, or (c) both. I think (c).

Black Friend Finder - watch more funny videos

T & A & Red America

This is a fascinating story about how the states with the most anti-sex rhetoric in schools (and in legislature) are actually the states with the highest rate of pornography consumption. Not too surprising, to tell you the truth, but crazy nonetheless. Two things come to mind: one, that pornography is our biggest (illegal) export, and makes the U.S. billions of dollars a year. Two, that although conservative and reactionary interests always say they're hard on sex (no pun intended), they seem to have the most sex scandals. Hmmmm....

Unions meet PR's "Dr. Evil"

Union-busting in the U.S. is not unusual, and there's a ton of evidence to suggest that anti-anti-corporate activism (meaning expensive ad and PR campaigns and governmental lobbies) has until recently been far more effective than grass-roots organizing by people without tons of money. This article's a pretty fascinating look at the new war on organized labor, and the man behind it all.