…you missed it, check out these curiosities and oddities from across the newswires:

Bad Moon Rising: Dr. William Gray’s team at Colorado State University is calling for an extremely active hurricane season. Sorry, everyone along the Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard, but it looks like you’re in for a rough summer. Dr. Jeff Masters explains why.

Get Off Those Knees! A Roman Catholic priest in Orange County, CA is trying to quell an open rebellion in his parish. Heh. Seems his parishioners have started taking to – gasp! – kneeling during Mass. That’s right, in this era of abortion-on-demand, Islamic fundamentalism and extremism, and third-world famine, disease, and misery, this loon decides to target the true evil of the world – humility in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. A number of different perspectives at Roman Catholic Blog.

Who Be The Dopes Now? Turns out Lance Armstrong was clean after all. Seems those slimy low-life, “I-surrender!” miserables in France were trying to frame him when they brought up those doping charges against him in 2004 using urine samples taken from him five years prior.

French, Fried: The Armstrong accusation fiasco appears to be just another setback in a week of setbacks for the French: not only have Muslim youths started rioting again, but French winemakers got their a$$e$ kicked once again in a recent rematch of the historic 1976 blind taste-test competition against California wine-makers that shocked the wine-tasting world. Congratulations, California!

Oh, Mr. Ripley…. File this under “Believe It Or Not!” Dutch pedophiles are starting their own political party to push for a reduction in the legal age for legal sexual relations and legalizing child porn and beastiality. Sigh… Coming to a nation near you, sure to be sponsored by your friends and mine at the ACLU. Don’t believe me? Check out this story.