Pole Dancers Make Subway Rides Slighty Less Harrowing

Frankly, the video below would have been the least amazing thing we saw on our subway ride this morning, but The New York Daily News is shocked (!) and appalled (!!) by these "vivacious vixens" who entertained commuters on the city's N and L trains with some rapid transit pole dancing. Filmed and posted to YouTube on a $10,000 dare, these ladies are quite enthusiastic (and flexible!) but are practically puritans compared to the girls you see at any Manhattan club or the A train after midnight. Do not attempt this during your own underground travels—not because you'll offend the straphangers, but because grinding up against the surfaces of any subway car is a one-way ticket to a prescription for antibiotics. You do not want to know where that pole has been. More »

An elementary school teacher learns the hard way that if you can figure how out to use MySpace ... or, um ... absolutepunk.net, then your students probably can too. Or at least their lonely parents. Sure, "semi nude" photos aren't porn, but when has that ever stood in the way of a little moral outrage. (volunteertv.com)

Porn Wars: Save A Tree, Destroy A Family

We love righteous indignation and hysterical overreaction as much the next group of porn connoisseurs, which is we enjoyed the recent dust up over at Ideal Bite, an email newsletter with daily tips on how you can help the environment. Last week, they sent out what seemed like a perfectly sensible eco-solution—get all your porn online and save all those magazines and DVD from the landfill. Makes sense to us. But a handful of their subscribers and blog commenters were livid over the mere suggestion that porn even exists, never mind that someone would try to help people to consume it more responsibly. Between the unsubscribe notices and "porn destroys worlds" manifestos, we appreciated the helpful reminder that not everyone thinks what we do here is so keen. Aside from the few good laughs it provides, it also keeps us on our toes. More »

"I'll venture to say Internet porn is more of a danger to our values and way of life than a concealed weapon, cigarette or breed of dog could ever be." We don't know ... those Labradoodles are pretty annoying. (kansascity.com)