This is really bad of me

"Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was shot in the leg early Sunday during a party hosted by Grammy-winning hip hop artist Kanye West, police said."

The first thing I thought was, "Didn't he already get shot?"

Reading further in the AP store, I see that he was friends with Tupac Shakur, beat up a gang rival (along w/Shakur), and is implicated in Notorious B.I.G.'s death,* so I can understand the confusion now.

Of course, I could note the other absurdity about this, which is that I've heard of the names of these people (the ubiquity of the media and all that).

*both singers I've heard of but have never heard.

I'm sure everybody's way ahead of me on this one, but...

mda just discovered the site containing a letter to the Kansas School Board from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It makes me so happy to think that someone has created a complete absurdity to combat "intelligent" "design" (I think I will now refer to that with quotation marks; that is no where near as funny as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster).

I’m sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory. It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia. I cannot stress the importance of this enough, and unfortunately cannot describe in detail why this must be done as I fear this letter is already becoming too long. The concise explanation is that He becomes angry if we don’t.

There are bumper stickers, and mugs; hell, even the faq page is damned funny.