I'm starting to use social networking software as a fun way to connect with a bunch of folks I used to know. My school friend Marcella is a leftist, but she has always adhered to that persuasion's intelligence & reason wing rather than its ignorance wing, and I've always had a lot of respect for her. Damned if she doesn't find some pretty funny stuff, too:
"A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.
They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.
"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said."
And we wish him a life of nuptial bliss with the best piece of tail he's ever had. A pity they don't live in America, though, thus depriving us of future stories covering the new celebrities, their alimony battles, the Hollywood parties... and finally, of course, the dueling claims on their kid after Mr. Tombe is head-butted to death by a one of his wife's jealous suitors, and Mrs. Tombe chokes on a tin can in a motel room.
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