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This week the city council of Palo Alto, California, will vote on a code of conduct for its meetings that forbids even nonverbal expressions of “disagreement or disgust” (rolling one’s eyes, smirking, shaking one’s head). According to the San Jose Mercury News, one councilman skeptical of the code has been adopted as a poster boy by its opponents, apparently because his large mustache makes it hard to tell whether he’s frowning or not.
Indian Testicle Attack “Is Murder”–from a January BBC News report on a decision by India’s highest court that a fatal knee to the groin can be regarded as more than mere “culpable homicide.” Mayor Denies Claims She Masturbated Businessmen–from a February story in the Courier-Mail of Brisbane, Australia, detailing a dispute between the mayor of Maroochy, Queensland, and a former lover: she’s suing him for stalking, and in turn his lawyer has suggested she “serviced” some of the town’s influential businessmen while working as a masseuse before her election.
People Different From Us
In March in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a 42-year-old man attempted to tighten the screws on his granddaughter’s new crib using a butcher knife, despite his wife’s suggestion that he use an Allen wrench instead; minutes later, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he was running to her, bleeding from the throat and screaming, “Call the paramedics! I fell on the knife!” The man died of his wound at a hospital shortly afterward. The wife (who’d assembled the crib herself) has since said she “can’t even imagine” what happened.
