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Under normal circumstances, I’m kinda pro when someone takes a stand on a ticket or what not and does something stupid. Not this time… some dude, unhappy over a $206 traffic ticket decided to send his payment in coins. Ok, not the first time. But his addition to this tried and true method? To put the coins in a plastic bag and then to pee into said bag. Yup. He sent a bag full of pee and coins. Man, that’s just wrong. I mean, it wasn’t guys who’re going to get the package that gave him the ticket. Interestingly enough, it seems that there’s not much to be done against him (except that every cop is going to now be targetting him…) – the post office says as long as it’s safely packed it’s legal to send bodily fluids!

Another in a line of sites I expect to get sued out of existence one day (although, it hasn’t happened yet as far as I know, so I guess I’m wrong) – PersonRatings seems to be a site that let’s you rate actual people on a few metrics (smart, sexy, classy, etc…) and comment on said ratings. It’s this lack of anonymity and ability to comment that seems to me to make it a libel suit just waiting to happen. Hear me?

Finally, and most depressingly, Texas has just passed a law requiring text books to evaluate the scientific explanations of evolution – students have to be able to “look at all sides of the issue”. Creationism continues forward pushing it’s anti-science agenda onto schools – this time since it will now have the ability to reject text books that don’t start calling into question evolution it could have a real effect on US science. Texas is obviously a major buyer of text books, publishers may be forced to alter their content to comply with this. Maybe other, more sane states will pass laws to ban Creationist crap to help combat this. Argh.