Saturday links

Some random Saturday morning links, for those of you bored enough to be surfing the weeb instead of enjoying real life . . .

First off, an amusing student suspension story. (H/T to Kalina V.)

You'd have to admit that a lot of politicians seem to be stamped from the same set of cookie-cutter profiles: lawyers, labour leaders, business tycoons. But not always . . . this is the kind of NDP candidate we need more of:

The quiet campaign took on a nasty tone in its final days. The Liberals released selected portions of DiNovo's past sermons to claim she was sympathetic to Karla Homolka and supported the ordination of pedophiles and axe-murderers.

Another Liberal release from Watson's campaign urged DiNovo to "come clean" about remarks she made in the past, including one where she admitted to smuggling LSD from California in hollowed-out Bibles.

Follow-up: This is the somewhat less newsworthy resolution to this NSFW item: Apparently he said "pump" not "bomb". Darn those accents . . . get you in all kinds of trouble in certain areas of the world.

The Economist re-imagines what a truthful airline would say during their pre-flight announcements.

And a story of really really alternative medicine. Ouchies.