Eclectic links for your reading pleasure below. And with this post, I'm all caught up on the backlog! Onward and upward from here on out!

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser Ten Times - Yes, that's right. A 56-year-old woman. With a knife. In a wheelchair. What choice did the cops have but to Taser her ten times!

Federal Government: "We're winning the War on Drugs. Cocaine prices are higher!" Drug dealers: "It's because everyone's buying Meth now."

News Flash: War on Drugs futile.

Reactionary thinking is not the way to outsmart terrorists - From the article: "To understand what makes these measures so absurd, we first need to revisit the morning of September 11th, and grasp exactly what it was the 19 hijackers so easily took advantage of. Conventional wisdom says the terrorists exploited a weakness in airport security by smuggling aboard box-cutters. What they actually exploited was a weakness in our mindset — a set of presumptions based on the decades-long track record of hijackings.

In years past, a takeover meant hostage negotiations and standoffs; crews were trained in the concept of “passive resistance.” All of that changed forever the instant American Airlines Flight 11 collided with the north tower. What weapons the 19 men possessed mattered little; the success of their plan relied fundamentally on the element of surprise. And in this respect, their scheme was all but guaranteed not to fail."

George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm

The world's single most comprehensive, detailed, updated, accurate, and complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news.

Tug of War: World Champion Sumo Wrestler vs. Orangutan

Sample pages from new Intelligent Design textbook

You think using an unnecessary apostrophe is bad? You'll love these signs!

I don't know anything about the culture of cosplay (short for "costume play"), but these pics are hilarious!