Shaking Up the Condom Market: (1) The Swiss government announced in March that it would help bring to market “extra”-small condoms for boys as young as 12. (The decrease in circumference from a “standard” condom would be about 5/16th of an inch.) (2) The Washington Post.

Craig Smallwood of Hawaii filed a federal lawsuit earlier this year against the makers of the online virtual-world game “Lineage II” for failing to warn him that he would become so addicted to playing it that he would be “unable to function...

Texas State Rep. Joe Driver, an 18-year House veteran whose website notes his opposition to “big spending habits of liberals in government,” was revealed in August to have been routinely doublebilling the government for travel expenses and to have been genuinely surprised to learn that voters and colleagues might find that improper.

Again this year, in April, the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo hosted the possibly-400-yearold Naki Sumo (“crying baby contest”), in which infants are blessed to good health by having sumo wrestlers hoist them into the air, hold them at arm’s length, and coax them (no squeezing!) to cry, thus signaling that the offering has been heard.

The Yaohnanen tribe on the South Pacific island of Tanna believe their true ancestral god is Britain’s Prince Philip (based on photographs of him with the queen during a 1974 visit to Tanna’s mother nation of Vanuatu) and believe he promised he would return for good on his 89th birthday (June 10, 2010). Although the prince has kept in touch, he failed to show up for the grand celebration, but fortunately, Scottish university student Marc Rayner was on the island, working as a volunteer teacher, and stepped in for the prince, which meant that he and not the duke of Edinburgh got to wear the “formal” ceremonial penis sheath appropriate for such special events.

Featured at London’s Royal College of Art in June was Hiromi Ozaki’s “Menstruation Machine”—a wearable contraption that enables men to experience the two primary symptoms of the “curse.” It periodically generates abdominal pain, and its reservoir permits liquid (“blood”) to be stored and released over several days’ time.

Woody Allen Joke Come to Life: Shirley Anderson, 71, is suing her son Ken, 46, in Vancouver, British Columbia, for parental support—even though she and his father had abandoned him when he was 15 (having one day just picked up and moved and, as in Mr.

With heroin too expensive for many African addicts, some ask an addicted friend for a temporary fix—withdrawing a teaspoonful of the friend’s heroin-tinged blood and injecting it into their own bloodstream.

Teachers Leslie Rainer and Djuna Robinson were removed from teaching duties at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Fla., in March after they were seen sprinkling “holy water” onto a colleague, a self-described atheist. Other witnesses disputed the details, but the two were charged under the school’s “anti-bullying” policy for aggressiveness toward the other teacher.

While the morbidly obese struggle with their health (and society’s scorn), those who eroticize massive weight gain are capturing increased attention, according to a July ABC News report. Commercial and personal websites give full-bellied “gainers,” such as New Jerseyan Donna Simpson, and their admiring “feeders” the opportunity to express themselves.