When God's law becomes a cop-out

The Catholic church is a sad mess these days. Their stance on sexuality (or lack thereof) for priests has resulted in well-documented and publicized acts of molestation and inappropriateness between priests and young boys in the church. That's just shameful.

And then you have this. A 9 (!!!) year old, eighty pound Brazilian girl was allegedly raped and impregnated by her stepfather. It was discovered she was four months pregnant with twins (!!!!) when she was taken to the doctor for stomach pains. With her mother's support, Brazilian doctors performed an abortion since given her size and age the little girl's own life could be endangered if she were to carry the babies to term. The little girl, her mother and the doctors were each excommunicated by the church for violating the Catholic church's stance on abortion. The stepfather has been arrested, but NOT excommunicated because - you know - murder is worse than rape.

Under sharp criticism for the excommunication on everyone involved in the abortion, but not the stepfather who raped his own stepfather and started this terrible situation in motion, came out with this astounding comment in their own defense:

"God's law is above human law. The real problem is that two innocent lives were conceived and they have a right to life."

The adults in the situation will be okay, but the little girl has been victimized all over again. By her church. Absolutely terrible. Apparently, the Catholics read a different Bible than the one I read.

Get drunk, kill a girl, get knighted

You'll be happy to know that Edward Kennedy is now a knight. Now he's officially a British nobleman. Apparently, the idea of having actual nobility to become a nobleman is a quaint idea that the queen no longer feels befitting the honor.

Good thing too! Now there's hope for anyone who gets drunk, drives, crashes off a bridge, kills someone and then covers it up because of family connections...

I got your "Nugnuts" right here

What to do when you go to McDonalds, craving a McNugget, pay up, find out they're out of nuggets and are told you can't get your money back but have to order something else off the menu?

If you're Latreasa (and that might be part of the problem right there), you call 911. Three times. Yes, the McDonalds advertising campaign has finally spawned a real-life nugnut. Meanwhile, real emergency calls in Fort Pierce, FL were put on hold as 911 operators tried to get to the bottom of this McDonalds mishap.

Oddly, McDonalds has apologized to Letreasa. Latreasa apparently feels she had no other option but to call 911. And 911 operators will be reviewing tapes to prevent future McNugget meltdowns from slowing down aid to the injured and dying.

Career possibilities uncovered!

I'm so happy to know that now - safely removed from the interests of most 18-22 students - it is finally possible to go to college and major in the Beatles! I don't mean a class or two. I mean an MA in the Beatles. As in an actual degree.

So practical. So likely to be every parent's dream for their child. I love the irony of it being offered by Liverpool's Hope University. As in, hoping to get a job that pays off the investment I made in my Beatles degree!