If you read that some Senator from Wisconsin invented Earth Day, you’re receiving rewritten history.

Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the “composted” body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

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Although Einhorn was only the master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day event, he maintains that Earth Day was his idea and that he’s responsible for launching it. Understandably, Earth Day’s organizers have distanced themselves from his name, citing Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist and former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator who died in 2005, as Earth Day’s official founder and organizer.

Composting your girlfriend.  Now that’s dedication to the cause.

The United States Postal Service has issued a new stamp featuring the Statue of Liberty. Only the statue it features is not the one in the harbor, but the replica at the New York-New York casino in Las Vegas.

The post office, which had thought the Lady Liberty “forever” stamp featured the real thing, found out otherwise when a clever stamp collector who is also what one might call a superfan of the Statue of Liberty got suspicious and contacted Linn’s Stamp News, the essential read among philatelists.

But the post office is going with it.

“We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway,” said Roy Betts, a spokesman. Mr. Betts did say, however, that the post office regrets the error and is “re-examining our processes to prevent this situation from happening in the future.”

A video circulating on the internet indicates that Taco Bell is testing shells made of nacho cheese Doritos. Be prepared.

What’s the deal with Easter?  One year it is in March; the next it is in April.  What gives?  Well, here is the story…

The date Easter Sunday falls on seems to be a hybrid between our calendar and a Jewish calendar, which was based on phases of the moon.

By this calendar, Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the vernal (spring) equinox.

It sounds complicated, but it’s not.  The vernal equinox is on March 21.  You find the first full moon after that date.  And Easter is on the following Sunday!  What about a year when the full moon IS on a Sunday (like it was this year)?  Then it is on the following Sunday.

That means Easter can land anywhere between March 22nd to April 25 (making this year one of the latest possible).

I guess an interesting question would be why the celebrate Easter this way but Christmas is always on Dec. 25, but that’s a different post!

Miss Edwards, 31, said: ‘In the last year I’ve eaten seven sofas.

‘I unzip the cushions and snack on the foam inside. And once I start I just can’t stop.

‘But now doctors have told me that if I carry on, my addiction will kill me.’

Pica is a disorder found most commonly in toddlers and pregnant women who lack certain nutrients, causing them to crave non-nutritive substances like chalk, coins, batteries and even dirt.

Sometimes it’s caused by stress, and Adele admits her first time happened during a very emotional period in her life, when her parents were on the brink of divorce.

I’ll summarize:  In 1986 the Feds passed a law saying that email that was left on a third-party server for more than 180 days is considered “abandoned” so they don’t need a warrant to seize it or snoop on it.  (They do need a warrant for email stored on your hard drive.)

If you use gmail or hotmail or yahoo or any other web based email for your email provider, your email is stored on a third party server.  Therefore, any emails of yours that are older than 6 months are fair game for snooping, without any probable cause.

An industry group wants to change this, but the government says no:

A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- and home-stored e-mail the same, and thus require a probable-cause warrant for access. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on that topic Tuesday.

The companies — including Google, AOL and AT&T — maintain that the law should be changed to reflect that consumers increasingly access their e-mail on servers, instead of downloading it to their hard drives, as a matter of course.

But the Obama administration testified that imposing constitutional safeguards on e-mail stored in the cloud would be an unnecessary burden on the government. Probable-cause warrants would only get in the government’s way.

To blatantly and un-apologetically rip off a comment I saw elsewhere: They told me that if I voted for John McCain the government would read my emails without a warrant, and they were right!

A Milwaukie teen says a man, later found to be a sex offender, tried to grab her while she was walking home from school Thursday evening.

Luckily, her father quickly came to the rescue and tackled the suspect, Fox12 News reports.

They look like McDonald’s McNuggets (one had the classic McBoot shape) and they taste just like the old Burger King Chicken Tenders.  Overall I’d probably rank them third, after McDonald’s and Wendy’s.

What I’m most excited about is McDonald’s having to price match their ridiculously overpriced McNuggets to compete.  $1 for 4 makes sense.  $3 for 6, not so much.

Speaking of overpriced Chicken products… BK’s Chicken Fries are actually really good, but the price is not right.

APRIL 5–A young model who worked as a personal assistant for Vince Shlomi–the TV pitchman responsible for the ShamWow and Slap Chop products–alleges that he wanted her to be his “love slave,” and offered to buy her eggs for $20,000 and pay her to sleep in his bed with him, according to a federal lawsuit.

Jennifer Kosinski, 23, also charges that Shlomi stalked her ex-boyfriend, used binoculars to watch her while she was on a Florida beach, and, when she sought to visit a relative stricken with cancer, he told her, “Why don’t you just see him when he’s in the grave.”