This company is hitting the streets of Chicago on April 16 armed with the 'Exposure Meter,' which seems to be some sort of an apparatus designed to check for plumber's butt on average guys, according to the company's news release.

Thanks to WikiLeaks.org, a nonprofit organization funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists and others, Americans can watch what their tax dollars bought three years ago when Apache helicopters opened fire on a group of supposed insurgents, killing a Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40.

Poor little rich men. You've just got to feel sorry for them. One minute they were raking it in through sub-prime mortgages and other shell games, playing fast and loose with the nation's economy. The next they're getting billions in federal bailouts, big fat bonuses, and bad PR.

And yet what drama preceded that last vote! How surreal it was to watch Americans argue against their best interests, tossing the word 'socialism' around as if they actually understood what it means.

Thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling that gave corporations the same rights as people when it comes to funding political campaigns, one corporation has decided to skip the lobbying process and get itself elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Some 4,200 Colorado residents just had their income cut, thanks to a bill introduced last year by Rep. Jack Pommer, D-Boulder, and signed into law by Gov. Bill Ritter.

So, out of the goodness of his heart, the Boulder city attorney is not going to pursue criminal charges against Seth Brigham, whose freespeech-in-boxer-shorts stunt earned him an arrest and a police escort out of a recent City Council meeting.

The issue of public nudity sure has Deputy Mayor Ken Wilson’s panties in a twist. He’s so concerned about the evolution of the proposed public nudity ordinance — the one intended to punish naked pumpkin runners and nude bike riders without requiring them to register as sex offenders — that he fired off a private e-mail full of legalistic questions to fellow city council members and to city staff.

We are a bit perplexed by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s recent medical marijuana raids. Wasn’t there some sort of federal edict passed down last fall telling the DEA to leave dispensaries and caregivers alone in states with medical marijuana laws, as long as they are not in violation of those laws?

On the heels of the whites-only basketball team idea and the pastor who refuses to marry mixed-race couples, here’s another gem from the South: A proposed high-school curriculum that would eliminate U.S. history prior to 1877.