Asexuals are getting more assertive ("Celibacy is a choice; asexuality is an orientation"), denying they're repressed, even if they have a history with doing the deed. ("I enjoy golf [too], but if I never play it again, I don't care.") Good point: Why do we yawn at a lot of the odd paraphilias, yet insist that asexuals are strange? (Bonus: The reporter on the case is "Olly Bootle.")
The Independent (London)
If you drive a
$185,000 Porsche, and you want some audio put in, do you drop it off at
Circuit City (whose rogue employee took it on a $50,000 joyride)?
Home News (New Brunswick, N.J.)
The style to which the divorcée had become accustomed requires, er,
$53,000 a week—no, wait, she's in court complaining that's not enough.
Associated Press via Yahoo
Things are not as they seem: The Smoking Gun produces Michelle Owen, 24, who's really kinda cute, but on the other hand, they did find those
two videos of her having sex with a dog.
TheSmokingGun.com
Update: In this chaotic world right now, with threats of tectonic-like shifts in our daily lives, it's reassuring that at least one institution promises to always remain constant: Texas "justice." For example, the highest criminal-appeals court just officially reaffirmed that Andre Thomas,
the guy who plucked out both his eyeballs (after plucking out his murder victims' hearts), is sane and can be executed. (Bonus: The court did concede that Andre's "crazy," just not "insane.")
Associated Press via KFDM-TV (Beaumont)
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