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Fetishes of the Week

By Cecil Adams
POSTED // Mar 19,2012 - Seeking sexual gratification by blindfolding pupils to play a "tasting game" and then spoon-feeding them his ...

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Big-Bang Theory

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 12,2012 - He was puffing on one when it exploded in his mouth, severely burning his face, knocking out his front teeth and blowing off a chunk of his tongue.

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Scam-a-Rama

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Mar 7,2012 - Rigging pay phones in the Washington, D.C., area to make phantom calls to toll-free numbers so he could collect a fee for each call.

News Quirks

Better Than Billboards

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 27,2012 - The Los Angeles Police Department warned city real-estate agents to stop using unmanned aircraft to take aerial photos and videos of homes for sale.

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Hoodwinkery

When did the KKK start supporting black and white interracial marriages?

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 20,2012 - He admitted setting the fire and writing the note, hoping to frighten her so she wouldn’t divorce him.

News Quirks

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 13,2012 - Controlling wildfires in Australia by introducing elephants and rhinoceroses Down Under.

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Supply-Side Economics

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Feb 6,2012 - The Environmental Protection Agency is penalizing the companies that supply motor fuel about $6.8 million for failing to comply with the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act,

News Quirks

Democracy in Other Lands

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 30,2012 - A federal court in Brazil sentenced politician Talvane de Albuquerque to 103 years in prison for ordering four of his aides to kill congresswoman Ceci Cunha so he could replace her in the Chamber of Deputies. Albuquerque was Cunha’s alternate and would have assumed her seat. Albuquerque was also convicted of ordering the murders of Cunha’s husband and two of her relatives. (Associated Press)

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Shirking-Class Heroes

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 23,2012 - Scott Bennett, 45, published a newspaper obituary for his mother, even though she was still alive. Brookville, Pa., police Chief Ken Dworek said Bennett submitted the bogus notice to The Jeffersonian Democrat

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Entitlement Programs

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jan 16,2012 - After an internal review of the metropolitan Washington, D.C., transit authority showed 645 items missing from one branch, investigators found 74 items in the home of a branch employee.
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