Darwin in Kansas?

18 year old Joe White's stepmother says he's in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital after jumping from a moving car. Shawnee County Sheriff Dick Barta says a passenger in the car told deputies White was trying to recreate a scene from the newly released "Jackass" sequel.

The Cap-J's story includes obligatory heartbroken-mom-wearing-ribbon shot and this nugget of interesting information: "Barta said White and Donald had been drinking 'to some degree,' but he didn't know what they had been drinking or how much they had consumed."

I'm sorry, but all my pity seems to have evaporated.

The yin and the yang

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the best and worst of Christianity.

The best: A grieving grandfather told young relatives not to hate the gunman who killed five girls in an Amish schoolhouse carnage, a pastor said on Wednesday.

"As we were standing next to the body of this 13-year-old girl, the grandfather was tutoring the young boys, he was making a point, just saying to the family, 'We must not think evil of this man,'" the Rev. Robert Schenck told CNN....

"Although she did say, she was very careful to say, that Charles Roberts was not an evil person. That he was a deeply troubled man, that he had, in her words -- the sort of modest words of the Amish -- that he had problems of the heart."

The worst: A Kansas-based group that says "God hates fags" plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed by a disturbed man in Lancaster County, Pa.

The Westboro Baptist Church -- described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League -- has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.

The Westboro group says the Amish school girls were "killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church."

Finally we've found people for whom crucifixion is too good.

Picspam Wednesday

Good news: the Phelps cult changed its collective mind and won't picket the Amish funerals. That still doesn't stop me from thinking they're nothing more than a waste of flesh and oxygen. They've been bribed with media time, which disgusts me, but at least I can change the channel; the Amish shouldn't have to put up with them.

On a more pleasant note -- really, could it be less pleasant? -- picspam ensues. ( 32 pics below.... )