A BOOZER downed ten pints of cider and kidnapped a GOAT, a court heard yesterday.

How drunk do you have to be? Of course, this reminds me of the frat that lost its national charter while I was at the University of Washington: Police found two agitated sheep in a station wagon outside the house and investigated. In the lower level of the frat, they found initiates in their underwear with peanut butter and shortening on their hands, and a couple more agitated sheep.

Ah, college.

~Heathyr

The Sun Online - News: Boozy reveller nicked goat

Yule says she was fired from her job at the Catholic hospital because it doesn't recognize her religion -- ordinarily a violation of state and federal civil rights law.

But her situation isn't so simple. Yule's religion has no formal deity or buildings of worship. Some of its adherents suspend themselves by hooks dug into their skin. You can apply to be a minister by e-mail.

Yule, 24, of Waterford, says she is a member of the Church of Body Modification, whose members meet online to share a passion for changing their bodies.

You know, on the surface, it just seems like someone being difficult, but as the article points out, it is quite a sticky subject and slippery slope. Some policies are outdated and need to be revamped, in my opinion. Our hospital has the same policies, and while they are valuable to a point, they do reach the point of ludicrousness. For example, no tattoos can be visible whatsoever. If you are tattooed (even if it is not vulgar), you have to cover it with a bandaid or clothes or something. Our marketing director has a simple yin/yang on her ankle that she has to cover with a bandaid even under her nylons (since you can see it through nylons). The "oooh tattoos=bad" mentality has got to go. This situation is quite similar.

Where do you draw the line though? It's drawn too far back, in my opinion, but I don't know how to justify moving it a bit forward, but not throwing it away.

~Heathyr

A lost job and a case of faith -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

To wit: the wishful thinking of clicking your heels together and murmuring, "There's no place like home," should not be the basis of our foreign policy.

Excellent blog. Great points and amusing. Read some of the blog responses wherein the respondees take up the blogger's challenge to write replies to "If I Only Had A Brain." The first one is brilliant, and the one later on that uses Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is quite clever as well.

I'm feeling overly inadequate about now!

~Heathyr

The Blog | Chris Weigant: American Foreign Policy: Wonderland, Oz, and Never-Never Land | The Huffington Post

Maybe it's because he has to wake up so early. Or maybe he just doesn't like Kevin Smith.
Either way, one thing's certain: "Good Morning America" film critic Joel Siegel really, really hates "Clerks II," set to open Friday at theaters across the country.

I love Kevin Smith, and I adore his reply to Joel Siegel. Personally, we're going to the movie tonight. I'm leaving work early, so we can watch it before the kids get back from visiting their dad. I'm up for a lot of good natured, offensive material!

~Heathyr
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"

The View Askewniverse - GMA's Siegel storms out of 'Clerks II' screening - Kevin replies

Nifty little colour-coded map of how people designate that bubbly beverage so many of us know and love.

I personally call it soda, but Washington state mostly calls it "pop". I attribute this to being raised by Californians and spending all my summers in Canada.

~Heathyr

Any Way You Slice It, I'm Addicted!

In the old empires, there would be a lot of marriages between the royal families. And from time to time, these inter-family marriages would produce a mentally challenged son who would inherit the throne. This would set the empire back for hundreds of years. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying. Russia is big and so is China.

Heh. Blogger on Bush.

~Heathyr

The Blog | Cenk Uygur: The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile | The Huffington Post

The US government said it could not find the men that Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.

Just. Not. Right. The ends do not justify these means. The man should have had his witnesses found, or we become as bad, if not worse, than those we seek to subdue.

~Heathyr

Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

The Armageddon Flow Chart...or how to make my morning before work more entertaining (because I would never sneak a few minutes of web browsing at work, it's just not right, you know. I'd go straight to hell. Or worse. The unemployment office).

~Heathyr

Fully Ramblomatic.com - Features

Citing the potential bride's protruding teeth, bad complexion and poor English, a family in Massachusetts called off an arranged marriage and filed a lawsuit for damages.

A lawsuit for ugliness...just when I think our court systems have reached their all time lows, something like this reminds me that people are just, well, ridiculous.

I must admit, I feel for the poor girl. First, she's got to be subjected to arranged marriages anyway. Definitely not my cup of tea. Then, she has the realization that not only is she not pretty enough for the wedding to take place, but that she's SO homely, people are going to sue to get money back from a trip out to see her.

Makes my normal teenage/young adult angst, oh those many years ago, seem like absolutely nothing.

~Heathyr

WorldNetDaily: 'Homely' bride prompts lawsuit

"I'll be a couple of minutes late" translates as anything up to 15 minutes after the agreed time. "I'll be 15 minutes late" translates as anything up to half an hour. "I'm running very late" means it might be time to look for more punctual friends.

We have what's called "Vicky time" in our office. On time to her means 15 minutes-30 minutes late. She's also constantly on her phone or blackberry and seriously addicted to it. I adore the woman--she's hysterical and awesome at what she does. But sometimes, I want to rip the cell phone/blackberry out of her hands and throw it into the bottom of Lake Washington.

~Heathyr

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Manners on the move