The New York Times reports that American churches are turning to violent sport to attract converts...apparently the "marriage of faith and fighting is intended to promote Christian values."

The Guardian reports that schools in Southern California have banned the dictionary because it contains words parents do not like. Here is a word that you will find in any dictionary, "Stupid"!

South Africa has changed the way it measures its GDP to include the "non-observed economy". This includes drugs and prostitution.  Iafrica reports that "Cannabis farming will now form part of the agricultural sector while prostitution falls within the personal services sector ", some analysts have said that the estimates were probably too low! Welcome to South Africa!

Liberia is literally lawless as the government no longer has a complete record of its laws! But all is not lost...the one-time Minister of Justice has compiled a set and has offered to make them available to the government...for a "small fee"....welcome to Africa

Detained without trial...put to work at a dollar day to pay for food...no access to legal counsel....Soviet Gulag? No...the fourth floor of a US federal office building in Greenwich Village, New York.

Rocky Mountain Bank sends banking info to the wrong email address and then gets a judge to deactivate the email account. Google stepped up to the plate to protect it's unknown user's right to a Gmail account, but lost. Scary to think that your email account could be shut-down because some idiot accidentally sends you something you are not supposed to see.

Australia’s "leading" criminologist, Russel Smith believes that people should get a license before using computers....I have a better idea Russel: lets ban stupid people!

In this case (Davis case) Justice Scalia said that even if the district court were to find Davis to be innocent, there would still be nothing unlawful about executing him.

"Two weeks ago, the French Energy Regulatory Commission, the C.R.E., decided that Voltalis, a company that installs electricity management devices in homes and businesses and then manages their use, would have to, in effect, pay power producers for the power that it saves." - NYTimes.com

Nothing says a country is over-policed like...British riot police (4 police cars, a riot van and a helicopter) raiding a private birthday party of 15 people at 4pm because the Facebook invites showed it as an all-night party.