S. Korea Creates "Safe" Spaces For Female Drivers • Real Life Judge Judy Charged With Rudeness
• South Korea has started painting off certain, extra-roomy parking spaces with pink flowers to denote that they’re for unskilled drivers only… i.e. women. •
• For $215 you can be the proud owner of a one inch slice of royal cake from the 1871 wedding of Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise, to the Marquis of Lorne. • Esquire councils their readers on how to console a crying woman. • A man has been sentenced to six weeks in prison after he urinated on a 66-year-old woman while she was watching an in-flight movie on her way to a vacation in Hawaii. • The 31-year-old woman who came to the attention of authorities when she videotaped herself contaminating food at Domino’s Pizza has turned out to be a registered sex offender. • Jossip has unearthed an insane video of a car chase in which the female driver repeatedly “fakes out” police cars and suddenly begins doing donuts on the freeway. • This short experimental film is the work of Art Clokey, creator of Gumby. It does not feature Gumby, but it shows Clokey’s first experiments with claymation. • A new report found that fewer than half of American sexually active women are currently being screened for chlamydia. • I’m not sure why this creeps me out, but here is a video of the new Obama action figures. • There’ss been a recent spike in child abuse, which doctors are blaming on the recession. Many hospitals have seen a 20-30% increase in reports of maltreatment over last year. • And Tango Makes Three tops the ALA’s list of most challenged books yet again. Also on the list: Philip Pullman and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. • Afghanistan’s police have arrested two men suspected of murdering Sitara Achakzai, a women’s rights activist who was gunned down last Sunday. • Judge Judy Eiler is facing disciplinary actions stemming from charges that she is too rude to defendants. Eiler claims that she is nothing like the “TV Judge Judy,” but judging from this article, she kinda is. • For the second year in a row, moms are “taking a hit” on mothers day. • In the name of debunking stereotypes about gold digging Eastern European women, this article explains why Ukrainian women go for western men. • Upon finding a robber at her place of business, a 28-year-old Russian hairdresser disarmed him, bound him with a hairdryer, and kept him prisoner as her sex slave for several days. • Blame it on the recession: vasectomies are on the rise. • A new report reveals that air raids in Iraq kill mostly women and children. •