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WEIRDNUZ.M152 (News of the Weird, March 7, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Pastor John Renken's Xtreme Ministries of Memphis, Tenn., is
one of a supposedly growing number of churches that use "mixed
martial arts" events to recruit wayward young men February 25,

WEIRDNUZ.M151 (News of the Weird, February 28, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* When Dexter Blanch's dog nearly died from complications
during spay surgery, he decided to use the event as inspiration and
recently brought to market a chastity belt to give pet owners more

WEIRDNUZ.M150 (News of the Weird, February 21, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd.  All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* In all likelihood, convicted murderer Paul Powell would have
been sentenced to life in prison for his 1999 crime – but he could
not resist gratuitously ridiculing the prosecutor.  Powell's original

WEIRDNUZ.M149 (News of the Weird, February 14, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* White People in Turmoil: (1) April Gaede, who four years ago
guided her teenage daughters, Lynx and Lamb (performing as
"Prussian Blue"), to a brief music career singing neo-Nazi songs,

WEIRDNUZ.M148 (News of the Weird, February 7, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers
confiscated a live, jeweled beetle that a woman was wearing as an
"accessory" on her sweater as she crossed into Brownsville, Tex.,

WEIRDNUZ.M147 (News of the Weird, January 31, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* What Recession? A December USA Today analysis revealed
that during the first 18 months of the recent recession, beginning
December 2007, the number of federal employees with six-figure

WEIRDNUZ.M146 (News of the Weird, January 24, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* In December, a prominent online game player, Buzz "Erik"
Lightyear, won the auction for ownership of a virtual space station
in the Planet Calypso game, paying 3.3 million Project Entropia

WEIRDNUZ.M145 (News of the Weird, January 17, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Big-time traffickers who smuggle illegal immigrants into the
U.S. from Mexico rely on GPS devices to evade the Border Patrol,
but starting in June, border-jumpers who travel on their own can

WEIRDNUZ.M144 (News of the Weird, January 10, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Natives of the Erromango section of the Pacific island Vanuatu
recently held a formal "conciliation" with the great-great-grandson
of the British missionary whom the islanders' ancestors ate when

WEIRDNUZ.M143 (News of the Weird, January 3, 2010)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2010 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* In Somalia, which is without a central government to speak of
and where very little functions beyond an Islamic resistance and
individual warlords' fiefdoms, a robust "stock market" has emerged

WEIRDNUZ.M142 (News of the Weird, December 27, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* But What If the Device Falls into the Wrong Hands? 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

WEIRDNUZ.M141 (News of the Weird, December 20, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Spare the Rod: In September, engaging in a 300-year tradition of
the Dussera holiday in India's Tamil Nadu state, Hindu priests
ritually whipped 2,000 young women and girls over a five-hour

WEIRDNUZ.M140 (News of the Weird, December 13, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* Commercial test-preparation courses are already popular for
applicants to top colleges and graduate schools, and recently also
for admission to prestigious private high schools and grade

WEIRDNUZ.M139 (News of the Weird, December 6, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* In October in Orange County, Calif., Billy Joe Johnson, who had
just been convicted of murder as a hit man for a white supremacist
gang, begged the judge and jury, in all sincerity, to sentence him to

WEIRDNUZ.M138 (News of the Weird, November 29, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* Their Health Care Is Just Fine Without "Reform": (1) In
September, the Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, along with four
physicians and three surgical nurses, donated their services for

WEIRDNUZ.M137 (News of the Weird, November 22, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd

Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.

Lead Story

* The first line of "defense" at the 400 Iraqi police checkpoints in
Baghdad are small wands with antennas that supposedly detect
explosives but which U.S. officials say are about as useful as Ouija

WEIRDNUZ.M136 (News of the Weird, November 15, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* For some consumers, good environmental citizenship is
important even when choosing among sex accessories. No longer
will they tolerate plastic personal vibrators made with the softeners

WEIRDNUZ.M135 (News of the Weird, November 8, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Procter & Gamble announced in October that it will once again
create and host a public restroom for the holiday season in New
York City's Times Square, as a promotion for Charmin tissue. Last

WEIRDNUZ.M134 (News of the Weird, November 1, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* Recent Precision-Tuning of the Fruitfly Brain: (1) Scientists at
England's University of Oxford know how to make fruitflies scared
of things they weren't scared of previously by implanting

WEIRDNUZ.M133 (News of the Weird, October 25, 2009)
by Chuck Shepherd
Copyright 2009 by Chuck Shepherd. All rights reserved.
Lead Story
* The human brain's 100 billion neurons may have such specific
functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a
single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA