Day: April 12, 2010

Love, love them don’t

The Vatican posted a new set of rules on its Web site today for how to handle pedophile cases. Apparently, the rule now is to report them to the police.

The quick response–a mere two weeks after reports started turning up in the news concerning Pope Benedict’s wild and heady days as a young archbishop–stunned critics as the Church normally embraces new ideas, like our heliocentric solar system, once every 500 years.

And just to drive the point home about forgiveness, the Vatican followed up this announcement with another one forgiving The Beatles.

Brother, give that man a hand

Because if you’re in Britain, there’s a chance that your request might end up giving him an eye instead. Or a liver. Or a hypothalamus.

The National Health Service, or NHS, made just a little bit of a mistake by incorrectly recording which organs of some of the citizens are to be donated.

And by some, I mean up to 800,000. Whoopsidoodle.

She’s not randy, she’s just horny

It’s not easy being old. It’s not easy being a woman (in countries where it’s a masculine dominated culture and society). And in the olden days, it wasn’t easy being a unicorn (or any other horned, mythical creature).

These days, it’s really not easy being Zhang Ruifang.

And yet, she would say otherwise.

Ruifang, a 101 year old woman from China, has a pair of 6 centimeter (2.36 inches for the Bruce Springsteen crowd) ‘devil horns’ growing from her forehead-and it couldn’t bother her any less. She’s refused to have to the growths removed. Why?

‘…I’m quite looking forward to when the matching one has grown a bit,’ she explained.

Now, we’re not gonna say that she’s a mutant or anything like that, but finding out if the growths are cutaneous based or dark demon pact based would be absolutely fascinating.