The Midwest is currently dealing with a big outbreak of avian flu among poultry populations. Officials have taken a number of precautions, including banning birds from fairs in Minnesota. Which means that kids raising chickens for 4-H competitions at county fairs have been forced to get creative.
Georgia is just a governor's signature away from totally banning abortions that occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy under the dubious assertion that at that point, fetuses can feel pain. Anti-abortion advocates crow that this is a positive step toward protecting life, but where this law is totally and irredeemably…
Amanda Seyfried appears in the April Elle holding a lamb. If this sounds familiar, it's because the March issue of Elle Japan, widely distributed online, had Penelope Cruz clutching the same animal. What's up?
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from farm animals may cause increasingly hard-to-treat urinary tract infections in humans, because different bacterial populations can actually swap resistance genes. Just another reason to take your cranberry pills. [ScienceDaily]
• A British man is pressing charges against a awoman after waking up after a one night stand with home-carved tattoos. Wayne Robinson said: "I look like something out of 'Prison Break.'" •
