It's official: minors can be arrested for farting

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flatulence_arrest

Apparently now, in the USA, land of the free, home of the brave: teenage boys can be arrested for farting and turning off computers. What the heck ever happened to discipline? All of a sudden everything is a matter for the law? What the heck is this? A police state?

I'm ashamed that 1) we need police in our schools at all, 2) we're seeing increased reports of students being arrest, not for breaking the law, but for being unruly or uncooperative. There was a case a while back where a little girl was handcuffed, again, for being uncooperative.

People: when I was a kid, we used to MAKE paddles for our favorite teachers in shop class. The kids would drill holes through the board to cut wind resistance so the paddle would swing faster. It used to be popular to drill the words BOARD OF EDUCATION into the paddle too. And those paddles got used, and occasionally broken (they were full of holes after all).

Piano abduction is it now?

I'm sure there's a rational explanation, but this just struck me as surreally funny.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_piano_in_woods

The Exorcist (The True Story)

I ran across this today, and thought it was interesting and wanted to share.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/exorcist.html

This is the story that inspired "The Exorcist". Quite scary stuff. I especially liked the information at the end about the hospital room that was kept locked.

What do you think of this?

Dueling debates

I saw this on another site. I thought this was clever and hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5g8Y_Jqo

Is the earth actually flat?

It is my belief that the Earth is flat and square, and that transdimensional tunnels allow planes and ships to be instantly teleported from one side to the other.

Look at maps ... flat and square ...ish.

I flew really far once. Looked pretty flat to me ... and the window was square.

Have ANY of you ever circumnavigated the globe? Were you awake the ENTIRE time? How do you know that during one of those moments when you closed your eyes 'just for a second' that you weren't warped through a transdimensional tunnel by alien beings intent on keeping YOU from knowing the TRUTH! That our planet is flat and square. I tell you, there is a vast conspiracy here, meant to make fools of us ALL!

The globe is a MYTH! Not ONE person I've ever spoken to has ever seen the Earth from space. WHY? There IS no space! My spirit guide (the celestial were-squirrel Blippity-bop) has told me that transdimensional aliens are simply having a bit of fun with us.

C'mon people: have we never considered that sometimes the only conspiracy ... is a conspiracy of conspiracy theories whose only purpose is to make fools of us!

SO THROW AWAY YOUR GLOBE AND NO LONGER ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE ENSLAVED IN LIES!