Feminist groups in Belgium are angry about a "Miss Homeless" competition which offered a prize of a year's free rent to one lucky-and presentable-undomiciled lady. "I am outraged," said an activist. "These girls turned into puppets parodying their own life. Absolutely pathetic." If you're scoring at home, "Therese Van Belle, 58, was crowned the winner of the competition when she beat nine other finalists – who will now all go back on the streets."

Some people are apparently SHOCKED that New York City mayor Mike "Mikey" Bloomberg is shipping homeless people out of town, or, "home," or "to wherever." It is, after all, a sort of program that's worked everywhere from Lancaster, California to, uh, San Francisco, California and also pretty much every other town in California. (In San Francisco, you can get a bus ticket home (not a plane ticket!) if there's someone there who, like, says on the phone they want you.) Today Bloomberg was like "What are you all chirping about?" basically. Of course, New York City's program will buy anyone a one-way ticket out of town, if some [...]