When Hot Dogs Attack!

Kudos to the Fresno Bee who have informed the world about the Dastardly Spice and Sausage Attacker.

A burglar who broke into a home just east of Fresno rubbed food seasoning over the body of one of two men as they slept in their rooms and then used an 8-inch sausage to whack the other man [...]

Exhibition: Francis Bacon retrospective, Tate Britain

Type Francis-Bacon painting into google images and you’re introduced to an austere, drab battleship gray or flesh-colored world of deformed human figures, limbs askew like broken marionettes, their heads grossly distorted or blemished.  In Bacon’s vision, human lines are twisted into beautiful yet disturbing shapes.  There is no chaos here; the draftsmanship is meticulously planned.
Bacon’s [...]

What on earth are they up to at CERN? New York Times gives an exclusive clue

Well even with the blatant attempts to awaken the beasts of the nether dimensions, I expect it would be a bit much to expect tentacle porn, but this is the next best thing.
The image was scanned from New York Times, March 29, 2008
I ripped it shamelessly from largehardoncollider.com and cropped it to a reasonable size.
Obviously [...]

Zapatero set to deliver on promise to fix Spain’s anomalous abortion laws.

The Associated Press reported last week that Spain’s Socialist government is set to reform the country’s anomalous abortion laws.  While abortion is legal in Spain and 100,000 abortions take place each year, the restrictive 1985 law is interpreted differently by different regions, so access to abortion is uneven.
The equality minister announced the appointment of an [...]