A Utah politician is so desperate to squash gay marriage there that he has proposed dissolving the state. Apple Valley councilman Samuel Wyatt told supporters at a fundraising breakfast that he is looking into what it would take to have the state absorbed into neighboring Arizona, where gay marriage remains illegal. “Sometimes something’s too broken…
An Oregon school district may continue permitting an elderly janitor to spank students after a state court refused to stop what parents called “an arcane form of torture at the hands of a pervert.” The Farifax School District has an old policy, adopted in 1930, that allows for the longest-tenured employee to dole out corporal…
Checkers may sound like a pleasant enough place to stop for a burger and fries, but working there is proving to be anything but a game for its employees. That’s because a new study from the American Service Industry Health Unit shows the fast-food giant’s employees are, on average, morbidly obese. “It’s not even close,”…
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