Pardon the lazy conceptual framework here, but I present for you today two stories about rabbits. The Easter season seems to be bringing a lot of rabbit stories into the news. I'd normally be ashamed to perpetuate this sort of tendency, but the stories are out there, and the picture in the second story is well worth it.

Matthew Barney's latest artpiece has been showing at the IFC center since March 29th. But don't go if you think you'll see a film.

Now, I was sort of on the fence about the rabbit wedding--it's disagreeable in principle, but not all that cruel in itself. But I'm pretty sure that whatever's going on here with Sugarbush the Squirrel is not okay. I think we can all agree that wild animals shouldn't wear clothes, let alone, um, military uniforms, Michael Jackson wigs, spectacles, hard hats--my list of things that wild animals shouldn't wear grows with every glance at this astounding website.

St. Augustine Church was re-opened yesterday after a brief battle with the archdiocese.

I’m all for the fun of teenage fashion, especially when it’s at a price that even I could save up my milk money to afford, and I really do love the tongue-in-cheek humor that Rich and co-designer Traver Rains bring to the fashion community, but I hope they leave Paris Hilton out of this one.

Canada, you wild land of contradiction, you! I've spent a decent amount of time discussing Nettwerk Records, the Canadian label who is taking on the RIAA on behalf of a consumer being sued for downloading an Avril Lavigne song, and I've also discussed the CRIA (that is, the Canadian Recording Industry Association) and their boasts, in direct contradistinction to their own in depth studies, that file sharing is tearing apart the fabric of the universe. The current media levy in Canada is probably one of the sanest things you could imagine, which is exactly why the CRIA hates it, and wants a legal paradigm shift towards a much stupider, meaner, greedier DRM based way of doing business.

The EFF reports on an impending legal case that could have a huge impact on online criticism - namely big corporations are fighting against your right to party - and by party, I mean criticize them online and keep your sources confidential like every other journalist protected under the First Amendment. I guess democracy is a scary thing if you're used to getting away with things.

Science Daily says: "Moderate Drinking Associated with Better Cognition in Women." But don't start celebrating just yet.

John Kerry still lamely mouths piety—Christian, Islamic, whatever he can get—in a sleazy ploy to get some sweet electoral action. Just give it up and admit you’re a godless, blue-state liberal from Tax-achusetts!

Is it possible that America's beauty- and thin-obsessed media may have actually improved women's health?

Arsenic finds its way into the body through the most common means.

If GLAAD could have it their way, there would be an awards ceremony in Duluth, Cincinnati, and Boise by 2007.

What happens when one, possibly two major behind-the-scenes players in network news are gay bashed on vacation? Do the very news shows they produce air stories on the event?

Terence Kealey, Vice Chancellor of Buckingham University, says the size of the female brain suggests women were the first domesticated pets.

A sinister-sounding partnership between "horse-breeding and marketing firm" Encore Genetics and ViaGen has just produced the first commercially cloned horse in the United States, according to National Geographic. Royal Blue Boon Too is apparently priced-to-go at $150,000, compared with the original (um, mother?) Royal Blue Boon, who at 26 years old is now past the traditional breeding age. Italian scientists made the first horse clone in 2003, and several more have been cloned since then.

ViaGen says it expects to produce seven cloned foals this year. It has also collected and frozen tissue samples from more than 75 champion horses for future cloning.... To encourage sales, the company even gives horse owners a $60,000 discount on the price of a second clone of the same animal.