The evening snooze ...

Mexico City is set to begin handing out free Viagra to elderly men there, citing that sexuality is too important a contributor to citizens' happiness to allow it to sag. Ohhh, that was a bad pun ...

In related news, our sports editor has decided to vacation in Mexico City. As soon as possible.

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Nearly 30 children, some of them nearly adults, have been abandoned at Nebraska hospitals under the state's "Safe Haven" law. It gives a whole new depth to the threat parents give their kids that they're going to "take them to Nebraska."

In what is perhaps an ironic twist, Nebraskans have debated abandoning their state legislators in neighboring Iowa for penning and passing such a ridiculously undefined law in the first place.

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And two orb-weaving spiders taken to space during the current Endeavour mission are having difficulty weaving symmetrical webs in the zero-gravity conditions aboard the shuttle. In fact they're having difficulty weaving anything that remotely resembles a web. But assymetrical globs of sticky spider silk still might have been handy for catching the tools an astronaut lost today while performing repairs on the shuttle. Even tangled webs could serve a purpose ...