All fucking day, children:

Five Brazilian transsexual models wearing pieces of fake Chanel fashion accessories made out of taxidermised rats.

Running any one of the images will get me lynched.

“Welcome to planet Earth.”

America has told Britain that it can kidnap British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.. No, really:

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the “extraordinary rendition” of terrorist suspects. The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington.

Fantastic review of CLV in Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper:

It takes a perverse talent to write a novel practically guaranteed to offend every potential reader; it takes a gift to make that same novel completely compulsive, impossible to put down.

Thanks to David Bird for passing it on.

“I once got murdered in about ten seconds after urinating on a sleeping avatar in Toxian City.”

“Threads Of Red And White” at Clarkesworld:

Tereza looked from mountain to forest, and she pulled out the first of the stitches that sealed her lips shut. Every year after that she removed one more…