BME:  How did you decide what exactly to cut off?
GILLIAN:  That was obvious — it had to be our ring fingers. We were both just out of rough relationships, and wanted to both reclaim and be rid of those fingers... this has a permanence to it as well. You can take a ring off your ring finger, but you can never put your ring finger back on once you take it off. It’s something that will last forever — it’s a physical testament to how much I actually do love him.
CLIVE: And if we ever break up we’ll just tell people it’s a permanent shocker.
Think about it...
BME: Did either of you have an interest in amputation before this?
GILLIAN: No, and to be honest I never thought I would do one, but I think it’s one of those things that’s hard to understand until you feel it. It just sort of happened, and it feels right.
CLIVE: Like our love.

Diamonds are out. The deBeers control of the market for tetra-carbon be damned, people are coming up with new and more insane ways to show their commitment to each other.

I put my ring finger in Clive’s mouth and he put his ring finger in my mouth with our teeth resting right on the last joint. We looked in each other’s eyes, nodded, and bit down as hard as we could. It was a little disappointing because we couldn’t actually get all the way through, but we did pop the joint open and tear it a little. We cut the rest, just some skin and the tendon, the normal way.

Don't miss the pictures.

Update: This had been an April Fool's joke. Good one..

Love at First Bite

Those of you who live in LA can now get your morning weather report from David Lynch.

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Dead President Bush:

This is to inform you of my decision to retire from my position as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States effective upon the nomination and confirmation of my successor. It has been a great privilege, indeed, to have served as a member of the Court for 24 Terms. I will leave it with enormous respect for the integrity of the Court and its role under our Constitutional structure.

Sincerely,
Sandra Day O'Connor

Here we go... Let the selection process begin. Bureaucrats, start your engines!

Sandra Day O'Connor Announces Retirement - July 1, 2005

p to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim. Many of these "Lost Boys", some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah, by the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and told they will never see their families again or go to heaven.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives

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A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights.

In a bitter dissent, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the majority had created an ominous precedent. "The specter of condemnation hangs over all property," she wrote. "Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory."

"Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private property, but the fallout from this decision will not be random," she wrote. "The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms.

"As for the victims," Justice O'Connor went on, "the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result."

Justice Stevens was joined in the majority by Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

Justice O'Connor's fellow dissenters were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

Justices, 5-4, Back Seizure of Property for Development - New York Times

Bangkok — Authorities in Thailand say it's something they've never seen before: death by super glue.

A young Thai man said to be suffering from stress killed himself by sealing his mouth and nose with glue, police said Thursday.

The Globe and Mail: Thai police say man glued himself to death

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

Clinton apparently made some recent statement about running again... I think term limits are a good idea.

Democrats want to repeal the 22nd Amendment.

] The reason, according to scientists at the independent
] institute in England, which studies all sorts of hair
] problems, is that just 4 percent of the world's
] population carries the red-hair gene. The gene is
] recessive and therefore diluted when carriers produce
] children with people who have the dominant brown-hair
] gene.

Cool. I'm an endangered species... This gives me extra rights and such right? And think of the pick-up lines.

Scientists question whether rare reds are headed for extinction

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