@Georgewbush: Circumcision deprives men of "the majority of sexual sensation"? Please provide some documentation. Once again, hyperbole.

What, no Homocil? The tag line at the end gets me every time:
http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/9263

A Bass-O-Matic follow-up I remember from the Dan Aykroyd era: the Rovco Chinch Ranch, which lets you breed chinchillas for coats and meat ("Mmmm, that's great chinch!").

Under a Reagan-era policy revived by President Bush in 2001, USAID denies funding to non-governmental organizations that perform abortions, or that "actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."

Acknowledging the existence of scholarly research on a topic apparently constitutes active promotion of that topic.

#3 t3knomanser: Or it might come from having diabetes. Maybe your body is telling you something.

Damn, this is my big day! Cephalopod FTW!

#14 Avram: You're probably right. That or a random DiCaprio reference.

#16 JS7A: Funny, you don't look like a TED talk. That's what Boingboing needs, some actual disemboweling!

I get two points for this story, and Captain Tom gets a tentacle slap for referring to squid as fish.

#11 and #13: Waits's is the style preferred by the Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition), one of the major U.S. style manuals, as well as by Words Into Type (3rd edition). (If you don't recognize either of those sources, you are not an editor.) You say the possessive as "Waitsis," so by their rules you write it Waits's. If you just said "Waits," it would be Waits'.

#17 and #18: In Brooklyn (at least in my area), the garbage men (AKA New York's Strongest) do it manually. Salary starts at $30,000 and goes up to a maximum of $67,141 after 5.5 years. The line forms here: http://www.newyorkcity.us/html/dsny/html/jobs/jobs.shtml)