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Odd, weird, WTF news from around the globe. This week, beer from squirrels, the teabagger's teabag, and the usual roundup of Japanese absurdity and robots...lots of robots.

So you're serving at a Jewish wedding and naturally, you go upstairs to play recorded chants from a pro-Hamas demonstration. What could possibly go wrong?

Peru's top court rules that firing employees for drunkenness at work is unlawful. Something for tourists to think about as they enjoy that long ride up through the mountains to Machu Picchu.

The people for the ethical treatment of animals have decided that if they get people to start calling fish "sea kittens", people will have trouble telling the difference between their pet cats and the alewives washing up on the beach. Yeah, that will work. They wrote a children's book for this campaign. One of the characters in it, "Tony the Trout", is said to have pursued a double major in neuroscience and environmental studies. Pity he didn't augment the neuroscience with a little psychiatry. Maybe he'd be able to diagnose the problem ailing the person who came up with this campaign.

Mostly gentle sniping can be found in the comments section of the blog post where I found the link to the article in the bookmark below on my profile, one which briefly answers the question "what was all of that about".

WARNING: The page ahead is in .pdf format, and may cause problems for those who don't have adobe uploaded on their systems, or those using older browsers. In Senegal and the Congo, rioting have already occured over this - allegations that strangers (sometimes foreigners) have stolen the penises of the men that they've shaken hands with or merely touched. It's witchcraft, you know. It would almost be funny, if nobody had been hurt, but some of the accused witches have been killed. This is a paper I found linked to about the phenomenon. See link above, on my bookmark list. Note the non-.edu address. I can't vouch for the credentials of the authors, so read this one with guarded skepticism. That having been said, Reuters has reported these incidents - this is not an urban legend.

Yes, these people really believe that they're elves or dragons - and now they get to network. Look, if you wish, but whatever you do, don't talk to them. They really are serious, taking the position that any skepticism regarding their truly remarkable claims constitutes "persecution". Go there, and watch postmodernism reach its logical and inevitable conclusion - utter raving madness in those who embrace it. Isn't it time that the 90s were over?