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Whoopi Goldberg Defends Michael Vick 

Goldberg defended Vick by insisting that “from where he comes from” in the South that dogfighting wasn’t all that unusual. She likened the bloody sport to “cockfighting in Puerto Rico.”

Grits, fried green tomatoes, cornbread, iced tea and fried chicken are all part of southern culture. Murdering dogs, torturing dogs and letting dogs fight to the death is not part of southern culture. Dog fighting is part of sociopathic culture. For M’s Goldberg to not know the difference between culture and a behavioral disorder is sad at best.

Video game puts bounty hunters on the trail that could wipe out the stag beetle

With their shiny black shells, twitching legs and spiky black antlers, stag beetles are an unlikely item on a list of highly prized luxuries.

But now a rare breed is in danger of being hunted to extinction – not for use in oriental medicine but for the entertainment of six-year-old video game players in Japan.

According to environmentalists, a subspecies of stag beetle found only in the Amanos Mountains of southern Turkey is being wiped out to satisfy demand from Japan, where the insects are kept as children’s pets.

The craze has been driven by Mushiking (Insect King), a video arcade game in which small boys fight one another with digital stag beetles. A million beetles a year are being imported into Japan, where they are sold for as much as 40,000 yen (£170) each on internet auction sites.

Kids are coughing up about thirty five dollars for a beetle. Where does a kid get 35 bucks to buy bugs with.