This is America

A Houston TV station will air the now-annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show -- a cavalcade of six-foot-tall models wearing little -- after prime time instead of the nationally-schedule time of 9 pm, ostensibly because it wants to run a bunch of interviews, but really because it does not trust its own viewers to handle the half-naked dames.

And the Chrisitan Right pressure group Focus on the Family will boycott Wells Fargo Bank because of its support of gay-related charities. A bank spokesperson said "We absolutely made a $50,000 grant to GLAAD, and we're absolutely proud of our support for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community." But another Xtian foamer group, the explicitly anti-gay American Family Association, got Ford to pull its ads from gay magazines.

So fuck off, Ford! Much as I like Volvos (and vulvas), I'm buying Japanese the next time.

And in Kansas, a college professor who mocked the Christian view of creation was reportedly attacked and beaten on a rural road. Here's a local report.

Mirecki said in a phone interview that the incident happened as he was "going out for breakfast, taking a drive and thinking about things." He declined to say exactly where it happened, and the sheriff's department did not release the location, except to say it was south of Lawrence.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but something sounds fishy to me about this story. The beating allegedly happened outside his small down, on a road the guy had no particular reason to drive on, and no one witnessed the incident. Details are vague -- no description of the attackers' truck. No description of the weapon, "a metal object." Could he have faked the whole thing?