The potty-humor-loving Captain Underpants graphic novels, about a couple of wise-acre fourth-graders who turn their mean principal into a superhero dressed in undies, again topped this year's list of kids' books most challenged by parents evidently not crazy about the references to boogers, tinkle, butts and barf that their kids, with the discerning taste of eight-year-olds, adore. The series, much praised for coaxing otherwise book-wary kids to read, was cited for "offensive language" and as "unsuited for age group" on the list released for National Library Week. Runners-up were Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, cited for depictions of rape, racism or violence - subjects they in fact address. Next is Fifty Shades of Grey and The Hunger Games, cited not for killing children but "religious viewpoint."

It seemed like a big deal when the USA's new Forever stamp was announced: It bears the image of Harvey Milk, this country's first openly gay elected official. But nothing says changing times like Finland's new stamps, which boast the homoerotic, buttock-loving, leather-wearing drawings of iconic gay artist Touko Laaksonen, aka Tom of Finland. His images of "confident and strong male figures," to be unveiled along with a more sedate series of garden scenes and bridges, were chosen for celebrating "a sensual life force." Officials admitted there was some debate over the choice, but "we wanted to live in the year 2014." Cue right-wing heads exploding. Would that Harvey Milk had lived to see them.

Some wealthy residents in Davidson N.C. aren't sure about the new art outside their church, a bronze figure representing a homeless Jesus wrapped in a blanket, sleeping on a bench. The work deliberately leaves room to sit: It's only if people get that close they can tell it's Jesus by the crucifixion marks on his feet, but not many are, because, you know, ick, homeless person. The Rev. David Buck says the statue reminds his well-off parisioners to care for "the marginalized of society," as Jesus instructed, but that didn't stop one woman from calling the cops on Jesus because she was "concerned for the safety of the neighborhood." Others have complained the sculpture is inappropriate because Jesus wasn't in fact a homeless person. Oh, wait...