Ron Jeremy, the master debater

According to the University of Missouri’s student newspaper, porn star Ron Jeremy participated in a debate with Susan Cole, an avid critic of pornography, last Thursday. Cole argued that pornography objectifies women, while Jeremy countered that it glorifies them. He noted that while male pornographic actors “make roughly $100 to $600 per movie, but women can make $1,000 to $10,000.” He went on to say that pornographers make “fun, happy films.” Cole, in turn, urged women to “consider seizing back your sexuality.”

Political role playing

“It was going to be an interview on contraceptives … that’s all I knew about it,” Rod Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, said in an interview that was published Thursday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was referring to an interview he did for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Blagojevich, who was unaware of the show’s typical content, was caught off-guard by the humorous interview. The Daily Show correspondent, Jason Jones, repeatedly referred to Blagojevich as “Governor Smith,” after initially having trouble pronouncing the Governor’s real name. Jones also asked Blagojevich to explain contraception by playing the role of a “hot 17-year-old girl.” Blagojevich looked off-camera surprised and said, “Is he teasing me or is that legit?”

The galaxy is on O’Rion’s Belt

According to the Mercury News, of San Francisco, Calif., Bernice McDowall, 87, owns a black cat. However, whether her cat, Joey, brings good luck or bad luck is up in the air. On the one hand, an electrical fire spread throughout McDowall’s home, in McKenzie, N.D., on Friday night while she slept. On the other hand, Joey “was having a fit, running around the bedroom” at the time. He eventually woke McDowall up, and by doing so, possibly saved her life.

What can green do for you?

Steven Coburn, 48, of Mill Valley, Calif., mailed 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana, valued at about $10,000, through a private shipping company, according to the newspaper, the Arizona Republic. Unfortunately, he forgot to affix an address label to the package. Company protocol requires employees to open unaddressed packages and check to see if the address label was left inside. When employees found the payload of cannabis, they turned the package over to police. Although Coburn didn’t included an address label, he remembered to include a return address, which led to his eventual arrest.

You down with O.P.Pee?

A clerk at a convenience store in McKeesport, Pa. was asked by a couple to microwave an object that was wrapped in a paper towel. According to KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, after noticing a strange odor, the clerk examined the object, and found what appeared to be a severed penis. Fortunately, the penis was fake. The couple had acquired the fake penis and filled it up with someone else’s urine. They wanted to use the instrument to pass a drug test, but needed the urine to be microwaved so that it would be at body temperature when expelled.