Cass Rhynes, the PEI baseball player who was convicted last year of coercing two girls under 14 to perform oral sex, had his conviction overturned this week because it was the girls' idea. I find this somewhat disturbing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole point of age of consent laws was that 12 year olds can't legally consent to sex, period. If that's true, then why does it matter whose idea it was?

I'm sure Alec Baldwin is thrilled that Kim Basinger is auctioning off all the jewelry he gave her, including the engagement ring, to raise money for retired circus animals.

One man's family plan: To have 1-20 children by 1-7 women. You can't blame a guy for trying.

In honour of Easter, here are the winners of the Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps diorama contest. Honourable mentions include Peeps Re-enact the Passion of Christ, Queer Eye for the Straight Peep, and St. John the Baptist, Beheaded.

If you've ever seen people with tattoos of foreign language characters and wondered if they really knew what it meant, you'll appreciate this: the Chicago Tribune took a look at five people's Japanese tattoos and compared the actual meaning with what the bearer though it meant. Here's a sample:

What he thinks his tattoo says: his first name (Timothy), translated into Japanese.
What it really means: The three symbols together would be pronounced "tak-ee-may," so it doesn't correspond precisely to Timothy. What the symbols mean in Japanese is sort of a mishmash, something along the lines of "unreliable delivery service" or "lost moving delivery."

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Pizza Pizza are really pissing me off. The last two times I ordered from them, the driver made a big production of digging through his money pouch and claiming he was $1 short of the amount of change I'd asked for in order to get a bigger tip. Even more annoying, the idiot was holding the pouch at such an angle that I could see into it and could see perfectly well that he did have enough change. Perhaps if they weren't the only place in town that charged for delivery on orders more than $10, customers might be inclined to tip a little better and then drivers wouldn't feel the need to fleece customers for better tips.