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Tawkify is an online dating service that requires men to submit a photo, answer ten questions, and then await a match from the honed, laser-guided algorithm of the whimsy of its founder, E. Jean Carroll. For $8 per “match,” $15 for three matches, or $99 for a paternalistic hand-holding program, E. Jean will impose her will on you by deciding who you should date – blindly.  Under the veil of anonymity, you submit your photo, job information, and other personal data to be perused by Ms. Carroll, who describes her methodology’s rationale, and prospective customer base, thusly: [Men] have to

Amanda Clayton is a 24 year old from Lincoln Park, Michigan, who won the Michigan Lottery.  She got $1 millon, but complained that it wasn’t really that much, since the government took 1/3 of it in taxes.  She got caught using $200 a month in food stamps, despite her million dollar (before taxes) windfall. When she got caught, she said “I feel that it’s okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay…I have two houses.” (source) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xTjEwuuBRBE]

Congratulations to Tera Patrick and Tony Acosta, on the birth of their baby girl. Sophia Evelia Acosta, was born on Feb. 25 at 5:01 a.m. in Los Angeles, according to Xbiz. The father, Tony Acosta, is a prominent Hollywood special effects artist known for his work in “300,” “Dawn of The Dead,” and the recent Superman movie, “Man of Steel.”

A bouncer at a St. Petersburg nightclub told some transgendered women that they couldn’t participate in “ladies night,” because they were “dudes.” (source) But, the story has a happy ending. The bar owner got wind of the issue (after a boycott was organized on Facebook) and both apologized and pledged to train his staff. “Our staff, in my opinion, didn’t do anything with the intent to harm somebody,” Marshlack said. “I don’t think the bouncer’s statement came from a place that was meant to be harmful. I think it came from a place of being misinformed.” Marshlack said he plans

Well, if she lived in Zimbabwe, that is. There, a 17 year old boy has been sentenced to caning for calling a woman a “prostitute.” The charge, “criminal insult.” (source) Under Chapter II, Part V of the Zimbabwean Criminal Law Act, a speaker can be criminally punished for such insults. 95 Criminal insult (1) Any person who, by words or conduct (a) seriously impairs the dignity of another person; or (b) seriously invades the privacy of another person; shall be guilty of criminal insult if he or she intended his or her words or conduct to have an effect referred

By J. DeVoy San Diego County authorities are investigating the death of a 33-year-old woman who appears to have been killed by a homemade cannonball while her four-year-old child slept nearby. (source.)  The victim’s husband, whose name has not been released, was making a homemade cannon with a  friend around midnight on March 6, 2012; the cannon exploded, apparently sending the cannonball into the mobile home, striking his wife. (source.)  Alcohol is believed to be a factor in the incident, which occurred in a Potrero mobile home park, on Mexico’s border. (source.)

I mean this without a shred of sarcasm: This is an absolutely awesome study of various images of what I was raised to call The Pietà.

Isn’t the point of natural selection to get rid of animals like this?