Today’s evil news is brought to you by the color brown, the letter schwa, and the number 2012.

But first, the Word of the day.

arrant AR-unt, adjective:
Thoroughgoing; downright; out-and-out; confirmed; extreme; notorious.

Arrant was originally a variant spelling of errant, meaning “wandering.” It was first applied to vagabonds, as an arrant (or errant) rogue or thief, and hence passed gradually into its present sense. It ultimately derives from Latin iter, “a journey.”

And now… the evil news.

Boy Sentenced To Life Without A Crappy Job
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Shawn Barker, 16, was ordered to not seek employment in the food-service industry.
Using a police officer’s soft drink as a spittoon will cost Shawn Barker 100 hours of community service and a letter of apology.
But he won’t get detention, a court ruled yesterday.

Fighting a Real World
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The time, 10:53pm, shines in luminous yellow light against a Lite Brite-blue background on the A.Z. Zenith Currency Exchange sign. Next door, what has become the infamous “Real World” house stands like a de facto king’s castle, the Friday-night-trafficked North Avenue its moat. Across the street, a crowd has been gathering for about forty minutes. Somewhere between 300 and 400 people congregate here. A curious mix of activist types sporting cut-off shorts and shoulder bags, cherub-faced alternative boys and girls who could easily be seen in a suburban mall, a handful of clubbers poured into skin-tight tank tops and requisite black pants, and patrons from the bar next door (in Structure shirts and Dockers) commingle, watching the house as if it were a giant television. In the currency exchange lot, a dozen cops, with arms akimbo or folded, survey the crowd. “You call this a protest?” one officer wonders aloud. “You ever see that show ‘Jackass’?” another officer asks. “I’d like to see some of that.”

The article has much more, its really long and brings up many good points.

Morons Left To Come Up With Own Ways To Hurt Themselves
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MTV’s controversial stunt show “Jackass” is no more.
The show’s star, Johnny Knoxville, whose real name is P.J. Clapp, called it quits late last week for a career in movies. The last original episode of “Jackass” aired Sunday night.
“We told [MTV] we would do specials down the road,” Knoxville told the Knoxville News-Sentinel. “But this is enough. We have done enough.”

Korean Pinky Protest (it bears repeating…)
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Draped in national flags, 20 men each chopped off their little finger Monday in anger over Japanese textbooks that allegedly gloss over atrocities by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
South Korea is upset by failure in those textbooks to mention the many Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Heavy Metal Fans To Be Medicated
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Malaysia will medicate youths it says belong to a Satanic heavy metal music cult, a newspaper said today.
About 150 alleged “Black Metal” members from 15 schools would begin a program used for drug addicts from Tuesday, the New Straits Times said.
“A private company will sponsor the treatment program. The medicine has been tested on drug addicts and found to be effective in stimulating their thinking,” said Fadzil Hanafi, an official in northern Kedah state.

Reading Writing Burning Alive
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Teachers in the eastern Indian state of Orissa are being urged not to use suicide as a means of protest against educational reforms. Seven teachers were badly burned on Friday when they tried to set themselves alight in protest at being made unemployed.

Trying to Set a Breastfeeding Record
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Did you know there’s a world record for the most babies breast-fed together?
Susan Spencer didn’t, until her 9-year-old grandson received a copy of the latest Guinness Book of Records for Christmas. Listed under the Teamwork section between blurbs on teeth cleaning and sign language, the published record for Most Babies Breast-fed Simultaneously was set two years ago by a group of 388 breast-feeding mothers in Adelaide, Australia. Reading that gave Spencer, who works for a breastfeeding coalition here, an idea. With August being World Breastfeeding Awareness Month, why not try to break the world record?

Me Bum Went Psycho and Children Can’t Read About It
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A new children’s book called The Day My Bum Went Psycho has been withdrawn as the drawcard of the annual campaign to inspire children to read and write.

It’s just a baby’s bottom and what I find really disturbing is that somebody would find that disturbing.