Random links
- Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
- "An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one."
- Norway asks parents to go on dates in effort to curb soaring divorce rate
- It's almost like relationships might involve some work to maintain.
- Utah woman pleads guilty in "telepathic rape" case
- "On Oct. 30, 2011, Selleneit’s husband, Michael Selleneit, shot neighbor Tony Pierce in the back two times with a handgun. Meloney Selleneit had convinced her husband that Pierce had telepathically raped her on many occasions, court documents said."
- Bankers Groups To Obama: Stop Criminalizing Credit Standards
- A quick reminder that while greedy bankers bear partial fault for the housing bust in the US, legislation similar to some of that which preceded the bust like this is being reintroduced again. "HUD recently launched 22 separate investigations against lenders alleging that their policies of requiring minimum credit scores 'had a disparate impact on minorities in violation of the Fair Housing Act.' Dozens of similar actions have been brought against lenders by Attorney General Eric Holder. He is basing claims of bias on statistics showing differences in loan outcomes by race while ignoring racially neutral credit-risk factors that explain those differences."