Crossfit at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The gift shop at the 9/11 museum. Misting showers at Auschwitz. Inappropriate and thoughtless choices are being made everywhere you look, and so-called sacred spaces are no exception. So tell us, what’s the most sacrilegious thing you’ve ever witnessed?…
A Florida middle school teacher has been suspended without pay after authorities discovered that there’s enough evidence to suggest that she’s been spending valuable teaching time on calling students gay and retarded as well as telling parents that their kids might be gay (despite not knowing the child’s sexual…
"Hey, where'd that kid get a Hitler doll?" "Why are you shaving a baby?" "PUT DOWN THAT GRENADE THIS INSTANT!"
I first read about fighting fire with fire in an old Tin-Tin comic I had borrowed from the library in the hopes that I would one day be interested in adventure (no. It's the napping life for me). In the comic, Tin Tin sets some grass on fire to put out another fire that is coming towards him and his merry band of…
"We certainly apologize," says a spokesperson. The kid's shirt, which was emblazoned with General Franco's flag, is no longer online, and Target says it will remove it from 700 stores. Hope this won't be a Wal-Mart nazi-shirt situation. [Strib]
This is the Spanish flag as it was during Francisco Franco's reign of terror. Spain changed it in 1978, removing the eagle Franco had added; the current flag looks like this. So guess which flag Target put on a t-shirt?
Fashion blogger/law professor Susan Scafidi asks this perfectly reasonable question. The passementerie embroidery on a hobo bag from Marc Jacobs' spring collection appears to be centered around an infamous Nazi symbol. It's springtime for Hitler, fashionistas. [Counterfeit Chic]
Charming. Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who spent seven years in jail for raping her 13-year-old student, is hosting a "Hot for a Teacher" night at a Seattle bar. Vili Fualaau, her former student and father of her two children, is spinning records for the event. [AP & TMZ]
This 1995 video of little boys doing a Chippendales routine has been making the web rounds. Hereabouts, some of us find it incredibly disturbing, and others merely funny. What say you? [Dlisted]
Parents in the UK were furious when a Sainsbury supermarket manager accidentally handed out a booklet depicting sexual positions to fourth graders during a recent field trip. The booklet, How to Change the World with a Fiver, apparently looked like a children's book and the store manager decided it would be a good…
