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[shanmonster]

Works 2006: 13 Months in the Year of the Dog: Photographic interpretations of news headlines (thanks, tdj).

Toddler Artist: This three-year-old is good.

Pics and an update: Before today, I'd never heard of anti-adoption activists. I guess it's like fetishes and the internet. If you can think of it, someone's likely protested it. And documented it online....

Vancouver patient oozes green blood: Wait. Migraine meds can turn your blood green? That ain't right.

Maison Bulle: Ken Sparkes photographed Pierre Cardin's awesome French home. I want a house like that!

Logger amputates own leg with pocket knife after being trapped under tree: Trying to one-up the mountain climber who removed his own arm, perhaps?

Gamekeeper flees for his life from angry hippo: "Hippos can reach speeds of up to 30mph on land." Gamekeepers wearing gum rubbers can run 30.5mph.

Muscle Cream Causes Teen’s Death: Ben Gay will getcha.

Boy Stomps Flag At Funeral, Mom Arrested: I think this is more a matter of bad taste than it is an arresting offense. But when you find out who the Mom is, the over-reaction becomes a bit more understandable.

Moroccan family barred from toilet: It's worse than you think. They lived there.

Invention alleviates fallout of flatulence: The extra-large one is called The Overpad.

Comments

[miraba.livejournal.com]

That boy is amazing. Holy shit.

Re: Boy Stomps Flag at Funeral...

[mybadattitudes.livejournal.com]

I'm not the biggest fan of flag-desecration laws. Mainly, I believe it raises the flag to the status of a sacred object and that goes against every religious and political belief I hold.

But (and this is a big but), I'm dangerously close to making an exception for anyone belonging to the Phelps/Westboro Baptist Club klan, I mean, clan.

So why the outrageous acts in the first place, you ask. Simple. It's one of the ways they fund their little holy road trips around the U.S. and A.

Keep in mind that many members of the Phelps family/Westboro Baptist Church (in almost all cases, one and the same) are lawyers. One of their tactics is pissing someone off to the point where that person will retaliate physically, then turn around and sue that person.

The best way to keep the God-Hates-Fags crowd from making a return trip to your town (and I'm speaking to Americans; I'm guessing that they could never get away with this crap in Canada) is to just not react to their antics. It ain't easy, but it can be done (example: my home base of Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, where they picketed several GLBT-inclusive churches in the area).

Here's their version

[doyce.livejournal.com]

http://www.godhatesfags.com/featured/epics/2007/20070605_bellevue-ne-epic.pdf