This is reminding me of the Tom & Jerry episode where Tom is trying to get the little white kitten to fall in love with him (again) and Tom makes a zoot suit out of a striped curtain and a clothes hangar (for the broad shoulders). Good times.

Snopes on the German brothel thing: [link]

I didn't not know Kitty has a sister. Hello Mimmy.

North Korea Declares War on Long Hair [link]

Among the campaign's hairdos and don'ts: Hair must be kept no longer than two inches. The only exception is for older men, who are given an extra four-fifths of an inch to hide baldness.

The dictum claims that long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head.

North Korea's campaign does not mention any rules for women and gives no explanation as to why their long hair would not result in reduced brain activity.

Who can fail to love the Associated Press snark?

There are rumors that Kim Jong II is no longer in power. Perhaps this will provide cover for those really in power to have him arrested for his hairdo...

Things what Snopes taught me about California laws:

• Those under 18 cannot buy any of several different forms of performance-enhancing dietary supplements.
• Insurers must offer domestic partners the same health care benefits provided to married couples.
• Domestic partners will have a broader range of rights and responsibilities, from pensions to inheritance to paying bills, when a partner dies. This measure was passed in 2003, but its implementation was set for 2005.
• Hotels cannot raise their rates more than 10 percent after a natural disaster.
• Motorists cannot buy devices, now used by emergency vehicles, to change red lights to green. [dude, I didn't even know they existed ...]
• Headlights must be turned on when weather conditions require continuous use of windshield wipers.
• Users and Internet Service Providers can collect $1,000 for each unwanted e-mail advertisement sent to them using a false or misleading subject or address. [oh, if I had a nickel grand for every anti-spam law too impractical to make use of]
• The bedroom is added to a list of locations ordered off-limits to filming without permission in response to an explosion of cell-phone cameras and miniature recorders. Current law already includes dressing rooms and bathrooms.
• Smoking in prisons by inmates and guards will become illegal on 1 July 2005.

The only exception is for older men, who are given an extra four-fifths of an inch to hide baldness.

You can't do a decent comb over with only an extra four-fifths of an inch.

• Smoking in prisons by inmates and guards will become illegal on 1 July 2005.

Sounds like the fireworks are going to be starting a bit early for this Fourth of July in California.

You can't do a decent comb over

Period. End of sentence.

Users and Internet Service Providers can collect $1,000 for each unwanted e-mail advertisement sent to them using a false or misleading subject or address.

Wow.