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News of the Weird

News of the Weird for February 4, 2010

Being the first licensed male prostitute in Nevada (and thus the U.S.), explained "Markus" in a January interview for Details magazine, is to him "a civil rights thing." "It's just the same as when Rosa Parks decided to sit at the front (of the bus) instead of the back."

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News of the Weird for January 28, 2010

Chuck Shepherd

New York City, under Mayor Bloomberg's leadership, has taken aggressive positions against cigarette-smoking and restaurant dishes made with trans fats, but the city's Department of Health is apparently more tolerant regarding heroin.

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News of the Weird for January 21, 2010

Chuck Shepherd

The Continuing Crisis

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News of the Weird for January 14, 2010

Chuck Shepherd

While reporting on Britain's oldest newlyweds in November (husband 94, wife 87), the Daily Telegraph also noted that in 2008, Bertie Wood and her husband, Jessie, of Falmouth had decided to end their 36-year marriage, evidently at a point where they felt they needed a fresh start.

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News of the Weird for December 31, 2009January 7, 2010

Chuck Shepherd

The Scranton (Pa.) Diocese, Needing Confession: Father Edward Lyman of the diocese was removed as a parish administrator in November after he inadvertently (using his personal computer during early Mass) clicked on photos of four bare-chested young men in provocative poses.

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News of the Weird for December 31, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

A 55-year-old British man whose bowel was ruptured in a nearly catastrophic traffic accident has been fitted with a bionic sphincter that opens and closes with a remote controller.

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News of the Weird for December 24, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

From a police report in the North Bay (Ontario) Nugget (Nov. 7): An officer in line at a traffic light, realizing that cars had not moved through two light changes, walked up to the lead car to

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News of the Weird for December 17, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

In the past three years, at least 39 drivers in Dallas have been ticketed by police officers for the "offense" of being"a non-English speaking driver," according to a Dallas Morning News investigation in October.

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News of the Weird for December 10, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

Veteran marathoner Jerry Johncock, 81, was four-fifths through the Twin Cities Marathon in October when he was overtaken by a medical problem common to men of his age: urinary blockage. As he stopped to discuss his plight with...

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News of the Weird for December 3, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

Inexplicable

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News of the Weird for November 26, 2009

Chuck Shepherd

Many mixed-race ("coloured") teenage boys in Cape Town, South Africa, secure their ethnic identity by having several upper front teeth removed, according to an October dispatch in London's...

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