Are alcoholism and impulse buying the latest observed side effect of Catholic priesthood celibacy or is this guy just an evil idiot? Recently disgraced German Bishop Walter Mixa (already accused of fraud and child abuse) worked at an orphanage and allegedly spent $25,000 of its foundation money on a forged, “rare” Piranesi engraving and $3,000 more on wine. |The Art Newspaper|
Malta authorities want to take down this colorful road-side erection, lest the Pope get offended. En route to the airport, Unholy Joey is scheduled to pass the public sculpture and citizens want it to be removed “as a sign of respect.” En route, 11 of 25 alleged child abuse case victims in Malta have asked the Pope for a meeting and an apology, but Vatican spokesman said sorry, the Pope’s on “already very tight” schedule. Read more »
British American Tobacco (BTI), the second largest cigarette maker in the world, has been extending their spindly claws of death towards the art world, scraping up $18.5 million for some paintings at Sotheby’s auction the other day. Not as scary as smokey poison peddlers sponsoring elementary schools in China, but still creepy.
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Taking a play out of the Haliburton handbook, retail monolith Walmart is also overcharging troops for services, in this case shipping. |Consumerist|
Each week, ANIMAL will rank the world’s most despicable, deplorable, and undesirable human beings walking the earth, making the news. Behold: Evil Empirical. This week, your Media Deathlord Edition. Read more »
After an animal rights group released undercover video showing workers mercilessly tossing live male chicks like beanbags at a major egg hatchery in Iowa, the owner did his own investigation and came to the same conclusion as them: the birds are mostly tortured. But the company says it’s all good now and released a statement promising to be less cruel moving forward. |AP|
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