All three of my daughters won pizzas for reading books through Pizza Hut's Book It program.  It was easy for them, they all really enjoy reading--and often had the library points to prove it.

For some of the kids who won those pizzas it was very hard work.  And, due to their family circumstances, it was sometimes the only pizza they got that didn't come frozen.  It was a big prize to those kids, proof of their accomplishment.

Now some wingbat prof from Harvard wants Pizza Hut to end the program.  She says that the pizzas are junk food being promoted to a "captive audience".  Er, I don't think so.  As far as I know, if a kid doesn't want the pizza, they just don't have to read the required number of books.  And I don't really think one little personal pan pizza per year is going to ruin their appetites for regular food or that the personal pan pizza is even junk food. 

Kids often need incentives to start reading on their own.  Many keep reading after they learn that it can be fun and interesting.  Let the kids have their pizzas---and their books.

A Belgium woman climbed into a cheetah cage in a zoo in Brussels and was mauled to death by the cheetahs.

In what has to be one of the dumbest quotations I have ever heard about animal behavior, a zoo spokesperson said

"Karen loved animals. Unfortunately the cheetahs betrayed her trust," he said.

Er, what?  Since when did the cheetahs 'betray' her?  The cheetahs did exactly what a cheetah is going to do in the wild--kill a prey animal.  How is that a betrayal?  As far as I know, no cheetah has ever signed a contract to the do the opposite. 

Not to say I don't feel sorry for the woman or her family, but she took a bad risk when deciding cheetahs were big kitty cats, not wild animals.

A sh*t-for-brains monster chopped the head off of a kitten and sent it his ex-girlfriend with a card saying "I Love You, Your Ben".  Yeah, nothing says love like a chopped off kitty head.  What a freak.