2004 Lyttle Lytton Winners: Earth-shattering kaboom

Hadn't heard of this low-calorie offshoot of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, but it's amusing in brevity. Amuseling. Or something. I'm trying not to read anything into it coming on the heels of NaNoWriMo. Of particular note:

This is the story of your mom's life. (This year's winner.)

Juicy, their love was like forbidden fruit: tasty.

We write the year 2347, a world abound with nuclear alacrity, when suddenly Frank enters with a smile.

I know who the murderer is, Kevin blogged.

My fellow Americans, as you know, my foreign policy can be summed up in five words: "Iludium-236 Explosive Space Modulator."

Batman Begins again....

Moments of utter joy from the Fark Photoshop thread. ( Just a few.... )

Topeka's weirdness magnet kicks in again

Authorities found a healthy, day-old baby girl in Kansas that they are hopeful is the same infant taken from her mother's womb Thursday after the woman was killed in Skidmore, Missouri.

The baby is in a hospital being checked by a pediatrician, said Sheriff Ben Espey of Nodaway County, Missouri.

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Police would not say where in Kansas the baby was found but Espey added: "We feel really good about it. We're not going to confirm this 100 percent. ... It's about as good as we can get."

Hint: Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. Trust me. Nice place.

Journalists for Jesus

Colorado Springs has its official daily newspaper: the Gazette.

And, thanks to the International Bible Society, Colorado Springs now has its own customized Bible.

This Sunday, Dec. 19, the two will officially join hand in glove. That's when all 91,000 Gazette subscribers will retrieve from their driveways or their porches -- or their rooftops -- copies of the New Testament, tucked inside the newspapers standard blue plastic wrappers.

Article brings up some very interesting points from ethics (go Poynter!) to descecration ("We don't even put our Bibles on the floor," Simon noted.) Oh, and the bottom line: $36K for the paper. Amen.