Stamps, fur, porn and homophobia (the good life)

BELLOWS FALLS, Vt. - The new owner of a hardware store made an unexpected discovery: a climate-controlled vault containing six fur coats, about a dozen suits and some dresses and hats, apparently untouched since the late 1970s.

After 30 years in the climate-controlled vault, The coats are in perfect condition and potentially very valuable. The pimps didn’t fare nearly as well, and will be disposed of.


DALLAS - A collector from New York has purchased a rare, 24-cent U.S. stamp depicting an upside-down airplane for $825,000. Heritage Auction Galleries did not identify the buyer of the "Inverted Jenny".

In related news, another auction netted a disappointing $650 for an inverted Jenny McCarthy.


PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A Michigan man's long search for his birth mother ended this week when he discovered that his birth mother has been working at the same hardware store as he.

It’s yet another reason to avoid dating in the workplace.


COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - A man is thinking about suing Wal-Mart because the MP3 video player he gave to his daughter for Christmas turned out to be loaded with explicit tunes and porn videos.

Comforting to me, because now there is something besides me that comes pre-loaded with porn.


COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A Sri Lankan government minister and his bodyguards rampaged through the offices of a state television station and assaulted its news director before furious employees fought back and took them hostage, officials and witnesses said.

This could have been a fantastic plot for a holiday movie, if they had only managed to save Christmas while they were in there.


PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal judge in Oregon has placed a state domestic partnership law set to take effect Jan. 1 on hold, pending a February hearing, after an effort by gay-rights opponents fell 116 valid signatures short of the 55,179 needed to suspend the law.

Ugggh, just 116 signatures short! 55,000 homophobes strong, but not quite homophobic enough! But it’s not too late! Sign now Oregon, while there’s still time to make sure that some of your tax-paying citizens don’t get spousal health benefits, inheritances, or full custody of the children they raise.