LOS ANGELES, CA — When 10-year-old Betty Mae Page began caring for her younger siblings in an orphanage after their parents’ divorce, she had no idea that one day she would be loved – and mourned — by an entire planet of people who had never met her in person.As a...

MARTINSBURG, WV — The owner of three adult businesses based in Indianapolis, IN, on Friday was sentenced to 33 months in prison for violating federal obscenity statutes.On September 30th, Loren Jay Adams, 45, was convicted on six counts of distributing obscenity through the...

MOSCOW, RUSSIA — A Russian entrepreneur’s claim to have patented ;-), the combination of characters used to denote a virtual wink, has been debunked.:-) Rospatent, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, said Friday Oleg Teterin had overstated his...

WASHINGTON, DC — It’s said that there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch – and the Bush administration contends that there also ain’t no such thing as a free national Internet, in spite of what the FCC may think.Proposals by the FCC concerning free, nation-wide access to...

WASHINGTON, DC — “A dysfunctional agency led by a chairman who manipulates and withholds data and reports to advance his own policy positions.” Such was the description of the Federal Communications Commission and its chairman, Bush appointee Kevin Martin, within a 110-page...

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — More than 100 Argentine celebrities have filed lawsuits against Google and Yahoo over search results that display their names as links to porn. The 114 performers and sports personalities say the content to which the links point is defamatory and...

VISALIA, CA — Pastor Bob Grenier isn’t wild about Wild Willy’s – and he’s certainly not wild about the fact it’s able to advertise on the butt end of local city buses while his church can’t. While Mike Lane, a Visalia Unified trustee, insists that the Visalia City Coach’s...

ROME — While Americans fret about whether President-Elect Barack Obama will lead the country from center left or center right, Italy’s new president has made no bones about his right-of-center intentions. In fact, the G8 leader has let the world know that one of his first...

BERLIN — While the British general in The Last of the Mohicans may have insisted that the French have no stomach for war because they just want to stay home and make love with their faces, the modern French think otherwise. In fact, according to a recent study, what the...

CYBERSPACE — The humble computer mouse, both maligned as physically injurious and praised as one of the most important developments of the 20th Century, celebrated its 40th anniversary December 9th.Despite its amazing evolution over the past four decades, the mouse still...