It's Bad Behavior Friday™!

In the U.K. there is a new trend called happy slapping. You go up to a stranger and slap or punch them without warning as an associate videos the action; the video is then sent to cam phones. Also in Britain, newly re-elected PM Tony Blair promised a crackdown on yobs:

"People are rightly fed up with street corner and shopping centre thugs, yobbish behaviour sometimes from children as young as 10 or 11 whose parents should be looking after them, Friday and Saturday night binge-drinking which makes our town centres no-go areas for respectable citizens, of the low-level graffiti, vandalism and disorder that is the work of a very small minority that makes the law-abiding majority afraid and angry."

Perhaps if they were only slapping each other.

When three protesters attended a Bush "town hall meeting" on social security in Denver last month, they were escorted out by a man wearing a dark suit and an earpiece. Now the Secret Service is investigating whether the man -- merely "a staff member with the host committee" -- can be prosecuted for impersonating a Secret Service agent. No word on whether he was actually a Matrix fan impersonating Agent Smith.

Democratic Sen. Gene Salazar, fed up with attacks from Colorado Springs fundie leader James Dobson of Focus on the Family, called Dobson the anti-Christ, though he later backed away from the comment. The Revealer has analysis.

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