A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.
Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a [...]
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Student punished for spaghetti beliefs
World’s tallest man ties knot
BEIJING, China (AP) — After searching high and low, the world’s tallest man has married a woman two-thirds his height, a Chinese newspaper reported Wednesday.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch (2.36-meter) herdsman from Inner Mongolia, married saleswoman Xia Shujian, who was 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 meters) tall, several days ago, the Beijing New reported.
Bao’s 28-year-old bride [...]
Dog saves choking owner with ‘Heimlich’
CALVERT, Md. (AP) - Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman’s chest. The dog’s owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.
Debbie Parkhurst, 45, of Calvert told the Cecil Whig she was [...]
Pope confirms hell and damnation ‘real and eternal’
HELL is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, Pope Benedict XVI has said.
Addressing a parish gathering in a northern suburb of Rome, the Pope said that in the modern world many people, including some believers, had forgotten that if [...]
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Masturbating trespasser booted from frat
Police have been unable to locate a woman who entered the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house without permission on Thursday and began to masturbate on a couch.
While fraternity members were eating in the dining room, a woman entered the house’s living room, took off her clothes and started masturbating, said LSA junior Dan Nye, the [...]
Woman Calls Detective Wanting To Buy Meth
SEDALIA, Mo. — A woman was arrested after police said she dialed a wrong number and told a police detective that she wanted to buy drugs.
Detective Phil Stewart said he was sleeping last Thursday morning when he got a call on his cell phone from Tammy Banks, 41, of Sedalia.
The call was a wrong number, [...]
Will Bush Live to See End of His Mandate?
George Bush still has 667 days to live to become the first president to stay alive despite the Tecumseh curse.
The story of the so-called Tecumseh curse, although known in the world, is part of the American culture and is taught in schools in history classes. How else to explain the horrifying sequence of seven American [...]
Seattle Times: 10th-grade WASL may ditch math and science
State lawmakers appear on the verge of dumping the math and science sections of the 10th-grade Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), and replacing them with a very different kind of test.
The idea is to do something about the fact that so few students pass the math and science sections. But the proposed remedy is [...]
The evolution of “slut”
As with so many fraught or politically tricky words, context is everything when it comes to “slut.”
These days the word is often used as an affectionate tease among friends, especially adolescent girls. Or it has metaphorical meaning – you’re a slut for something you can’t resist.
At first it might seem that feminism and the sexual [...]
No sex please, we’re daddy’s little girls
It has all the ingredients of a wedding. The proud tuxedo-clad father, the frosted white cake, the limousines and an exchange of vows.
But there is no groom and the girl in the long gown is no bride. She’s daddy’s little girl, there to take a vow of chastity.
In what is becoming a trend among conservative [...]
Private school students banned from using myspace…AT HOME!
Students at a suburban Catholic school are being ordered to take down their photos, snappy comments, or anything else they may have posted on MySpace.com.
Today is the deadline for students at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School to follow orders or risk suspension. School Principal Sister Margaret Van Velzen sent letters home to [...]
Couple offered toddler for $3,000 and an SUV
OWENSBORO, Kentucky (AP) — A couple are charged with trying to sell a 15-month-old girl for $3,000 and a sport-utility vehicle.
Charles G. Hope Jr., 32, and Amber M. Revlett, 26, both of Owensboro, planned to use the money to pay off his fines for previous criminal charges, said Daviess County Sheriff’s Lt. Bill Thompson. They [...]
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