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Should people who benefit (parents, siblings, children, roommates!) from the earnings of “commercial sex acts” (any sexual conduct connected to the giving or receiving of something of value) be charged with human trafficking? Should someone who creates obscene material that is deemed “deviant” be charged as with human trafficking? Should people transporting obscene materials be charged with human trafficking? Should a person who engages in sex with someone claiming to be above the age of consent or furnishing a fake ID to this effect be charged with human trafficking?

The body of her relationship with long-time boyfriend Mark Griffiths wasn’t even cold when rumors started to circulate that actress Gillian Anderson was dating her former X Files co-star David Duchovny. According to gossip site Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Scully and Mulder have been shacking up in his L.A. home.

“There are many reasons to support President Obama’s campaign for reelection,” porn star Jessica Drake said. “When he first took office, one of his first acts as Commander in Chief was to sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. This important bill has served to break down wage-discrimination barriers for women and eradicate workplace inequality on many levels.

Last November, a crew of engineers working on a hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River, a major tributary in the Amazon rainforest, discovered six creatures that looked alarmingly like… well, they looked like dicks. Long, flaccid dicks. The news was kept under wraps while experts worked to confirm the trouser snake’s genus. Finally, it seems we have an answer.

Never in a million years would she have expected that one morning, she would wake to police in full riot gear and with guns drawn surrounding her bed, but that’s exactly what happened last November. Not only did they scare her half to death, they demanded that she get out of bed without a chance to get dressed. And so the former Miss Nevada was paraded before half a dozen male officers, completely naked.

Zak’s original field, it turns out, is economics, a far cry from the hearts and teddy bears we imagine when we consider his nickname. But after performing experiments on generosity, Zak stumbled on the importance of trust in interactions, which led him, rather inevitably, to research about oxytocin. Oxytocin, you might remember, is a hormone that has been linked previously to bonding — between mothers and children primarily, but also between partners.

Paolo Bonzini was looking over the code that helps Microsoft play nice with Linux when he discovered that someone at Microsoft had sneaked in a little joke into its code: a hexadecimal string reading 0xB16B00B5 (See it? It says “BIG BOOBS”). Microsoft quickly issued a statement apologizing, adding that an upcoming patch would change the spelling.

You might remember John Brennan, the guy who stripped naked in the middle of Portland International Airport in Oregon in response to Transportation Security Agency regulations. The TSA was not amused and law enforcement took him into custody. But guess what? A judge agreed he was within his legal rights!

No sooner had the news broken that Jenna Jameson had been charged with two counts of DUI that the internet exploded with rude remarks about the former porn star and entrepreneur. In typical fashion, Jameson struck back. Good for her. This habit of mocking people with substance abuse problems has to go. Substance abuse isn’t funny. Joking about people who suffer from it doesn’t help them get better, doesn’t help their loved ones heal faster, or help keep the streets safe.

In a video to promote a campaign fundraiser for Obama, U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama reminisce about their first date — lunch at the Art Institute, a Spike Lee movie and a stroll. “He was showing me all facets of his character: He was hip, cutting-edge, cultural, sensitive,” the First Lady says, smiling. “It was nice.”