I never got this:
Sometime after midnight, nearly 200 people will throw toast at The Artists' Studio stage.
Though some consider throwing food to be poor manners, it's all part of the fun of "The Rocky Horror Show LIVE!" which encourages audience participation.
For the "world keeps getting stranger" file:
A JAPANESE man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world".
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"I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world," he wrote.
The group, which included teachers, school board members, district administrators and leaders of nonprofits, recommended that the state consider making personal finance part of Oregon's math graduation requirement.
Ultimately, the committee wants students to have to show they're proficient in the subject to receive a diploma.
Let's see if I have this straight. "Ethnic whites" who feel discriminated against -- not are discriminated against necessarily but feel so -- are much more likely to be obese than ethnic whites who do not feel discriminated against. This connection between perceived discrimination and obesity is not present among blacks, Hispanics or "other whites." This is because:
This is stunningly dunderheaded:
Today, when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama returns to Toledo, The Blade, on its front page, asks Mr. Obama a simple question: Do all Americans who want to work have the right to a job where they live?
John Robinson Block, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper, said the answer to that question is important to all Toledoans and to all Americans.
You know the old "give 'em inch and they'll take a mile" warning. University officials in Indianapolis have discovered the "give 'em the sidewalk and they'll take the buildings" corollary:
Students at a downtown Indianapolis university are encouraged to use chalk to express their political views, but when those messages move from the sidewalks to the sides of buildings, that constitutes vandalism, school officials said.
Issues such as gay marriage should be decided by legislatures, but it's obvious that we're not headed that way. Connecticut has become the third state to say that same-sex partners are entitled to all the benefits of traditional marriage, including the title, and all three were court decrees. Furthermore:
Plants have feelings, too!
ZURICH -- For years, Swiss scientists have blithely created genetically modified rice, corn and apples. But did they ever stop to consider just how humiliating such experiments may be to plants?
That's a question they must now ask. Last spring, this small Alpine nation began mandating that geneticists conduct their research without trampling on a plant's dignity.
In my effort to keep you up on the latest trends, I note that senior citizens turned out at the fairgrounds to get "flu shots and ham and beans" during the annual Putnam County Senior Health Fair. But those who live in Casselberry, Fla., have a more exotic option:
A strip club offered free flu shots on Tuesday to Casselberry residents who are at least 55 years old.
