It’s that time of year again! The day to celebrate Debby, botanizer extraordinaire and frequent Global Spin contributor. Hopefully she doesn’t have to work today, but if so I hope the sheep do a little “song and dance number”:http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/3sheepdancers.gif.html for her. Happy Birthday!

It’s Banned Books Week, a time to celebrate our (rapidly shrinking) ability to read stuff that other people tell us not to. So go “do something naughty”:http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/actionguide/actionguide.htm and maybe read a book, too.

Since it’s “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”:http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html, you might enjoy Ben’s first joke:

bq. What does a pirate dog say?

bq. Arrrrrrrf.

Thank you folks, he’s here all week. Now cleanse your palate with something “actually funny”:http://www.partiallyclips.com/itlapd.php.

. . . and going to get same sex married . . . enjoy fine, legal, state-sanctioned same sex marriages in Netherlands and Belguim. But wait, there’s more!! Now including: Spain and Canada!

And the Catholic Church can bite my hairy, white, lesbian ass! See the twelve reasons why.

As the girl in the Midwest with East Coast time (doesn’t make sense to me either), I get to be the first one to wish kk a happy,happy, happy birthday!

By the way, this shows up third on Google if you search “Happy Birthday Karen.”