Sayyid Ali Khameini, the supreme overlord of life and liberty in Iran answers everyone's day to day questions. Those questions are as diverse as masturbation and digital rights management.

Q: "If somebody masturbates during the month of Ramadan but without any discharge, is his fasting invalidated?"

Iranian Supreme Leader: "If he do not intend masturbation and discharging semen and nothing is discharged, his fasting is correct even though he has done a ḥarām (forbidden) act. But, if he intends masturbation or he knows that he usually discharges semen by this process and semen really comes out, it is a ḥaram intentional breaking fasting."

At long last, the owners of the building where historic CBGB's is located have finally shut them down. I find it odd that the article mentions the Ramone's and Talking Heads but forget about Gianmarc Johns.

A Texas father wants his school district to ban "Fahrenheit 451", which is about the problems of banning books.

Excerpt:

Alton Verm's request to ban "Fahrenheit 451" came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban "Fahrenheit 451," a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.

What makes this more entertaining is that in a week or two, Google searches for "Alton Verm" (and maybe even Diana Verm, his daughter) will forever be associated with Book Burning.

It is pretty well-known that pedophiles rank among the lowest of the low in prison. Well here is living proof:



Some other inmates took it upon themselves to make sure this sicko never forgets what he did.

A cop killer in Miami was apprehended by the SWAT team. Amazingly he resisted arrest for 67 bullets with the 68th putting him down. Although I like to post about when cops abuse their power(bully/crooked cops), I have absolutely NO problem with the consistent treatment of cop killers (the Providence police know how to deal with them too). The best part about this case was a comment by Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, "That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more.”

Word to crooks...don't kill cops.

A Georgia mom is blaming the rash of school shootings on books that promote evil...such as the Harry Potter series! She goes on to say that if the students (of public highschools) read the Bible instead of Harry Potter, there wouldn't be any shootings. Just crucifixions, beatings and smitings.

While stifling a laugh, J.K. Rowling had no comment.

The principal of a middle school in Denver nipped a rising gang in the butt by suspending 4 girls for wearing the same outfit on the same day. Michael Shaffer, you are a hero.

An extremist member of the Christian Taliban, who happened to lose his son at the Columbine massacre, was asked to comment on the Amish killings.

Excerpt:

"This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value."

Amazing how he tries to connect abortion and the teaching of evolution to the cause/motives of a child molesting mass murderer. But he lost his son, so he is an authority.

Back in high school (Catholic, mind you), we were told that one of our priests was placed in an institute for "alcohol and depression" (which was believable because he was a drunk). Turns out he was a child molester. Anyone see a parallel here with former Representative Foley?

Ironically, I found this great quote:

"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction." -- 1998 Rep. Mark Foley, on Clinton's escapades with Monica Lewinsky