My Sick Mind

The August 2006 cover of Babytalk magazine. Readers of a US parenting magazine are crying foul over the publication's latest cover depicting a woman breastfeeding, with some calling the photo offensive and disgusting(AFP/HO) When are we ever going to get over this nonsense that parts of the body are "offensive and disgusting?" It's a baby and mother, for chrissakes. My guess is that the people calling the magazine cover disgusting have other issues that they should explore over at Psychology Today magazine. Meanwhile... LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of Britons are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe's first "Masturbate-a-thon", a leading reproductive healthcare charity said on Friday. Marie Stopes International, which is hosting the event with HIV/AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust, said it expected up to 200 people to attend the sponsored masturbation session in Clerkenwell, central London, on Saturday. The Marie Stopes spokeswoma...

This is Paula Creamer, a pro on the LPGA tour. Are those the greatest eyebrows you've ever seen, or what? I know ... what am I doing looking at eyebrows? I figure she spends so much time on them, that someone should appreciate it. Plus, the girl can golf like nobody's business. I don't care if you think I'm strange.

CHARLOTTE , N.C. - Charlotte-Mecklenburg police supervisors offered prizes to officers who wrote the most traffic tickets during an eight-day period over the July Fourth holiday. Five officers from the department's North Division earned $10 gift certificates to Dick's Sporting Goods. "I don't think there is anything inherently evil or bad about rewarding officers for putting in extra effort for a good cause," Major John Diggs (who oversees the division) said. So, now we know the high priority that some law enforcement agencies place on their job. GIve a guy a ticket for going 45 in a 35, make his day miserable, cost him more on his car insurance and make him write a check -- all for a Dick's gift certificate. It seems unethical to me - because it is. I thought police were supposed to be above treating their job like a game show? No, they're just people. People with a badge. Otherwise, they're no better than the rest of us. As far as being heroes , well...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National Muslim Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said Wednesday. Alton Towers in central England was to open on September 17 for Muslims -- with halal food [meaning: permissible under Islam] , a strict dress code and prayer areas. Sounds like a hoot! Geez, I can't imagine why there was no interest. Probably because there were no freedom fries...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - French fries are back on the menu of cafeterias that cater to US lawmakers on Capital Hill, more than three years after they were replaced by "freedom fries" in anger over France's refusal to join the US-led war in Iraq. It was a ridiculous over-reaction to the terrorist attacks, and a perceived slap at France, and I'll bet you that not one of the lawmakers that ordered them referred to them as freedom fries. Fries will do. Sometimes our lawmakers do things that they think will make them look good, but wind up being silly. France is looking smarter every day. Meanwhile, the Phillies are running ads spotlighting centerfielder Aaron Rowand, and calling him a "hero" because he chased a fly ball into a fence and broke his nose. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember a lot of hubbub that started around September 12, 2001 proclaiming that we shouldn't use the word hero loosley. They're athletes who play a sport for our ent...

Try as I might, I couldn't find a list of celebrity Satan worshippers to go with yesterday's Famous Mennonites. They must be out there, and I wonder why they are so shy to share their stories? Shy, I guess. But I did manage to find a site where you can buy a celebrity's soul: http://www.demonical.com/soulforsale.htm I think that I can, however, direct you to a partial list of Satan's pals on FIRESTARTER5 . Meanwhile... It's as hot as Hell. Nice tie-in, eh? It didn't quite get to 100 degrees, but what difference would it make? They tell us that the Heat Index is something like 110, but all they have to tell us is that it's humid, too. I swear, TV news producers must be nursing little woodies when it's really hot or it snows. They love their silly weather stories. Ironically, it's the only news story we can literally look out our window and see for ourselves. You'd think it wouldn't be that big a deal. But that didn't stop our local news s...

* Famous Mennonites Floyd Landis , who was raised conservative Mennonite. JC Chasez from boy band N'Sync. Adolph Rupp is a basketball coaching legend. Cindy Klassen is a Canadian skater and Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian. Jeff Hostetler is a former NFL quarterback. Graham Kerr created the cooking show "The Galloping Gourmet." Simpsons creator Matt Groening is a descendant of Russian Mennonites . James L. Kraft founded the cheese company J.L. Kraft & Bros. Co., which later became Kraft Foods . Milton Hershey founded the Hershey Chocolate Company . Jerome Smucker founded the food conglomerate J. M. Smucker Company, popularly known as Smuckers . Canadian actor Brendan Fehr stars on the television series " Roswell ." Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly from the TV series "Lost" has some Mennonite ancestry. I read some things about the Mennonites, but nowhere did it say that they had unusually high levels of testosterone. Certain...

Canadian actress Pamela Anderson is seen before her wedding ceremony with US musician Kid Rock, aboard a yacht in St. Tropez, southern France Saturday, July 29, 2006. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) Nice wedding dress, Pamela. I'm guessing those are new boobs, an old hat, blue pants and she probably had to borrow underwear. Although, I think she could have taken the time to cut the pockets off the pants - or had one of her "people" do it. Which reminds me, where are the bridesmaids? Who knew she was Canadian? Or that Kid Rock was a musician?

One of the major problems with traveling a great distance for an event is that there is a heightened probability that the event will not justify the effort. Such was the case when we ventured almost 300 miles to Connecticut to see the Dave Matthews Band and Gov't Mule in Hartford, Connecticut. The endearing charm of both bands is that one could follow either of them from city to city and never see the same show twice. That has as its downside the fact that one of the shows may be the dog of the bunch. I've seen the DMB four times this summer (twice in Camden and once in Hershey, PA) and twice last year (Camden and NYC) and I would say that Saturday's show ranks as the dog of the bunch. My friend, who has seen them dozens of times, agreed that it wasn' t one of her favorite shows, either. I've seen Gov't Mule even more than Dave, but always as headliners of their own shows. I wondered how they would react to opening for such a big act. Their set was subdued and...