Daily Rotten Archives January 23, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Mo' Better Indecency Legislation XBiz | Submitted by: anonymous "Even staunch supporters admit they face major 1st Amendment issues with new indecency legislation being bantered around Washington this week, but with several new initiatives announced during Thursday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Internet pornography, it’s clear that indecency laws are heading for a change." Read article... Comments (65) South Dakota pushing the abortion envelope KELO-TV 11 Sioux Falls | Submitted by: mel` "In the next six weeks, South Dakota lawmakers will decide whether to make abortion a crime. A bill that would ban abortion in the state will be introduced within the next two days. The bill will be called the Woman's Health and Life Protection Act." Read article... Comments (245) American Taliban freaked out over iPod Porn American Taliban Monthly | Submitted by: oddser5050 "Parents need to know that they are potentially putting an X-rated porn shop right into their kid's hands when they buy these [portable video players] for them." Read article... Comments (80) Teacher makes Broncos fan take test on floor Denver Post | Submitted by: cmu sucks "Embracing diversity and practicing tolerance had been mainstays of Joshua Vannoy's Pittsburgh-area high school ethnicity class - until the student wore his Denver Broncos jersey to school." ... "He had warned students before not to wear another team's jersey in his classroom." ... Update: I feel awful, like I was dehumanized Read article... and This article... Comments (60) Duhhhhhhhhh CNN | Submitted by: Ms. Crappy Pants "More than half of students at four-year colleges -- and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges -- lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found." ... "Almost 20 percent of students pursuing four-year degrees had only basic quantitative skills. For example, the students could not estimate if their car had enough gas to get to the service station. About 30 percent of two-year students had only basic math skills." Read article... Comments (126) Fatty arrives, skinny leaves CBS News | Submitted by: onesliceshort "A prison inmate who shed 31 pounds so he could escape through a narrow hole in a wall has been recaptured after three days on the run in Sydney, the prison department said Sunday." ... "He reportedly managed to escape by reducing his weight to 123 pounds by taking laxatives." ... "He was recaptured in a Sydney shopping mall Saturday disguised with a beard drawn on his face with a pen." Read article... Comments (35) Ankle bracelet can catch catching DWI offenders St. Louis Today | Submitted by: oddser5050 "More and more area judges who order drunken drivers to avoid alcohol are using a snitch to monitor them that's more powerful than a nosy neighbor or suspicious spouse. The device weighs less than a half-pound and is strapped to the offender's ankle to measure ethanol vapors as they leave the body. It takes hourly readings around the clock of the person's sweat to detect alcohol consumption." Read article... Comments (34) I was an undercover rock CNN | Submitted by: Depleted Your Cranium "Russia's internal security service has accused four British Embassy employees of conducting a high-tech spying operation that included using an 'advanced electronic spy gadget' in a fake rock, news agencies reported." ... "The program said four British officials and at least one Russian informant downloaded classified data to and from the transmitter onto handheld computers. One Russian citizen, allegedly recruited by British agents, was later arrested, the program reported." Read article... Comments (18) New Meaning for Friend With Benefits gainesville.com | Submitted by: Crime Dawg "University of Florida employees have to pledge that they're having sex with their domestic partners before qualifying for benefits under a new health care plan at the university." ... Quote: "Are you going to police it?" Read article... Comments (32) Pants down all around MSNBC | Submitted by: Bitter Cynic "Eight pranksters who dropped their pants and showed their underwear on the subway on Sunday were taken into custody and issued summonses for disorderly conduct. All were ultimately released, said Improv Everywhere, the group that organized the stunt." Read article... Comments (24) Glub glub glub Stamford Advocate | Submitted by: anonymous "An illegal alcoholic drink that gained notoriety in the 19th century for its hallucinogenic effects is emerging as the latest twist in a modern mystery surrounding a Greenwich man who vanished from his honeymoon cruise last summer. Passengers say that absinthe, made from grain alcohol and the common herb wormwood, was consumed by a group of men last seen with George Allen Smith IV on July 5, the day he disappeared from a Royal Caribbean cruise of the Mediterranean." Read article... Comments (33) Like poop through a goose ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: athenstexman "Piles of goose poop at a city lake have officials struggling to find a way to clean up the mess for picnicking parkgoers." ... "Chasing the birds away is another popular trick. Cities hire firms with names like Goosebusters or Wild Goose Chase, which use dogs -- trained to harass, not harm, geese -- to chase the birds away." Read article... Comments (27) Whatever you do, don't call for the nurse Reuters | Submitted by: Geto Prisoner "A Japanese nurse who tried to relieve her work stress by tearing off patients' nails was sentenced Monday to three years and eight months in prison." Read article... Comments (33) Who would do such a horrible thing Contra Costa Times | Submitted by: zsoul "Enough already, say the residents of Gaywood Road..." [more] Read article... Comments (55)