The Onion has delivered yet another breakthrough story in scientific news, Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory:

“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

In other religious news, the NY Times reports that city health officials are questioning a circumcision ritual after a baby died of herpes.

“This is a very delicate area, so to speak,” said Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden.

The practice is known as oral suction, or in Hebrew, metzitzah b’peh: after removing the foreskin of the penis, the practitioner, or mohel, sucks the blood from the wound to clean it.

Um, yeah, and here I thought hospital circumcision was gross and stupid. At least I learned the Hebrew for “baby penis blood sucking”.

Speaking of insanity, I was watching the “It puts the lotion in the basket” video again when decided to browse elsewhere on Transbuddha and ran across the Smart Stick Adventure 2 game. It’s super fun!