With the exception of Furious George, I tend to think of monkeys as cute animals …

But they are some vicious little fuckers:

A couple’s plans for a birthday party for their former pet chimpanzee turned tragic when two other chimps at an animal sanctuary escaped from their cage and attacked. The man was critically injured with massive wounds to his face, body and limbs, and the attacking animals were shot dead.

St. James Davis had severe facial injuries and would require extensive surgery in an attempt to reattach his nose, Dr. Maureen Martin of Kern Medical Center told KGET-TV of Bakersfield. One of his feet was mauled off, and he sustained other severe injuries, authorities said.

“Everybody was trying to get the chimp off,” Kern County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Hal Chealander told The Bakersfield Californian.

Chealander’s statement gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “spankin’ your monkey.”

Political Bloggers & anyone who gives a shit about free speech on the ‘net, just click, and read this interview with Bradley Smith, one of six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission.

In 2002, the FEC exempted the Internet by a 4-2 vote, but U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly last fall overturned that decision. “The commission’s exclusion of Internet communications from the coordinated communications regulation severely undermines” the campaign finance law’s purposes, Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

Eeep!