Hallmark, the nation’s largest greeting card company, is rolling out same-sex wedding cards — featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside.

A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing — even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.

CNN is reporting that singer Isaac Hayes has been found dead in his Tennessee home.

Isaac Hayes, RIP
1942-2008

Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Schular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced [...]

Woman claims she found ‘Cheesus’ - A Cheeto Looking Like Jesus being Crucified

The power of Cheese commands you!
Kelly Ramey from Missouri says she has found Jesus in a bag of Cheetos. Most of her family and friends believe it looks like a mini orange sculpture of Jesus on the cross. Ramey and her husband call [...]

Orlando, Florida: A University of Central Florida student, upset that religious groups hold church services on public campuses, briefly held the Eucharist hostage until returning it a week later after he received email threats.

Source: WFTV:
It was during Mass on June 29th that UCF Student Senator Webster Cook obtained the Eucharist. The Eucharist is a small [...]

Rocky Twyman, a community organizer from Rockville, formed a semicircle with seven others, held hands and sang, pleading for divine intervention to lower fuel prices.

You betta pray, bitch!
Source: Washington Post:
The price of regular at a Shell gas station in Petworth was $3.91 a gallon. Rocky Twyman and company had a plan to bring [...]

Japan gripped by suicide epidemic
Source: Times Online UK
Japanese professionals in their thirties are killing themselves at unprecedented rates, as the nation struggles with a runaway suicide epidemic. Newly published figures show that 30,093 people took their own lives in 2007 — a 2.9 per cent increase in a year — leaving the country as the [...]

June 14, 2008 was, evidently, a protest day across the world for Anonymous against Scientology. (We have pics of an Orlando protest ~ of Epic Fail Guy, of course!) This video - apparently of London’s Scientology presence getting rick rolled - is one of the best things I have ever seen here on the internets. [...]

Another “Only In Florida” story, courtesy of Local 6 News:
A Pasco County substitute teacher named Jim Piculas has lost his job after being accused of wizardry. Piculas recently did a 30 second magic trick in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School where a toothpick disappears and then reappears. He then got a call [...]

USA Today: 4 Questions That Need Answers:
Three weeks after Texas authorities removed more than 400 children from a polygamist compound, the facts remain distressingly murky.
1. Did Texas have any option short of taking the children from their families for weeks?
2. Did the state infringe on the group’s right to practice its religion?
3. Did anyone inside [...]