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First up, religious scholars are actually discussing our lord, The Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Craig over at Puntabulous has two things to celebrate: this hilarious debate with Bossy and the fact that his (fantasy) wife, Natalie Portman, supports him being able to marry some undisclosed future man.

Well, damn it. Who is going to tell the girlz to rock their boyz and warn us about the dangers of mental health?

Cartoon Network has started to air an anime called “Death Note” on [adult swim]. I’m enjoying it, but it certain has its over-the-top moments. The premise is a high school kid finds a notebook from a god of death and discovers he can kill people with it. It certainly didn’t take long for a real kid to copy it. (Yes, I’m aware of all the puns in that.)

Video section:

• Just Giblets gave us a cute video and a remix of it.
• Funky Brown Chick posted this hilarious video.
• Cute Overload shows us how compassionate doggies can be.
• Spencer found this hilarious white-boy rap.
• Upcoming Pixar found the real Nemo!

I’ve been wanting to write a piece about Harry Potter and His Dark Materials series, but waited too long and now all the anti-everything groups have started to surface. The Catholic League has added their voice against “The Golden Compass” with quotes like, “Now you’ve introduced your kids to atheism. I don’t think most parents want to do that.” I like to think that most parents would want them to mind your own damn business and stop telling them how to raise their kids. But I would also like to think that parents will tell their kids about the world so they can have the intelligence to make up their own damn minds.

“We’ve traced the terrorism. It’s coming from within the country!” …or so our government’s new safety law would have us fear.

Yawn.

Diesel had some hilariously gross things to say about his past.

And finally this bi-polar section: Andy told us the story of a man arrested for consensual sex… with his bike! However, life throws many curve balls and he got another one with the loss of he and D’s rescued cat, Drusilla. It seems she was struck by a car and Andy was moved to write from where he does his best work — his heart.

Listening to: “New York Is A Woman” - Suzanne Vega