Buffy the Vampire Slayer is apparently real, there are three of her, and they are all totally bats#$% crazy.

Brynne, Savannah and Tess Larson are all sexy home-schooled Christian black belts who assist their father, pastor Bob Larson, in fighting demons without a hint of irony—when they're not busy competing in beauty pageants or performing in stage musicals, that is.

Rev. Larson says he and his family exorcism band have performed more than 1,500 exorcisms to date. But he also says that's just scratching the surface because he believes that up to half of the world's population is infested with filthy, filthy demons.

ABC News recently spent some time with the Larsons, witnessing a few of their exorcisms and getting their thoughts on why haters always be hatin' on their scheme to take advantage of the mentally ill through exorcisms. Larson's DVD series that will help you renounce the curse of tattoos, remove the curse of cremation and spiritually sue Satan only costs $49 (plus $29 shipping and handling).

But it's OK to charge schizophrenics for fake cures and try to pitch it as a reality show, because as Brynne—aka "the enforcer"—says, "There is a war going on. Satan hates us. He's attacking. And we can fight back."

The Magic Valley's Times-News is reporting that a researcher in Utah recently found out that a Mormon temple in Twin Falls performed a proxy baptism for Daniel Pearl last summer. Pearl was a Jewish writer whose beheading in Pakistan while reporting for The Wall Street Journal in 2002 was videotaped and distributed online by Islamic extremists.

The proxy baptism was performed without his family's knowledge or consent, and is yet another public-relations blow to the Mormon Church, which has taken consistent heat for its members' baptisms of holocaust victims, despite repeated calls from the church to halt the practice.

From the article:

Reached by phone, Pearl’s mother, Ruth, said she and her husband were dismayed when informed of the ceremony by a reporter from the Boston Globe, which first reported the news. According to the paper, the researcher is Helen Radkey, an excommunicated Mormon who combs through church archives.

“We realize that the Mormon ministers who baptized our son posthumously meant to offer him salvation in the most honorable way they know how,” she said in statement. “To them we say: We appreciate your good intentions but rest assured that Danny’s soul was redeemed through the life that he lived and the values that he upheld. He lived as a proud Jew, died as a proud Jew and is currently facing his creator as a Jew—blessed, accepted and redeemed.”

Officials from the Twin Falls temple told the Times-News they were looking into the matter and could not confirm or deny the act.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton described the border between North and South Korea as the scariest place in the world. Much of that scare factor had to do with the dystopia waiting on the other side.

Under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, North Korea was almost an Orwellian satire. It's a place where children were taught arithmetic by adding together the number of their family members killed by evil Americans, and the citizenry was taught to believe that Kim Jong Il's moods controlled the weather.

But it wasn't funny. After interviewing more than 1,000 refugees, South Korean charity Good Friends estimated that approximately 3.5 million people have starved to death in North Korea since 1995. All that while, Il drove a fleet of Mercedes Benzes and imported approximately $700,000 a year in cognac. His personal expenses were estimated to comprise 20 percent of the nation's budget.

He was a total d-bag.

After remaining in power for decades, inciting no shortage of international conflicts and making North Korea into a nuclear power, Il died over the weekend, leaving his youngest son as successor. As is our tradition with notable deaths, BW reached out to our staff and readers for memorial haikus. What people choose to remember, is up to them.

The results are below. Any additional memorial haikus may be left in the comment box below.

Lexy Leahy
Kim Jong Il is dead.
Kim Jong Il is really dead.
Kim Jong Il is dead.

Amanda Collins
tiny little man
big hair no soul sunglasses
can i have your shoes?

Boise Weekly
Only drove Mercedes
Drank Hennsey like a fish
His people starved

Jacob Whittaker
Built a pyramid
Made of concrete and sadness
Hotel? No, folly.

Julie Anderson
Kim Jong Il has died
Like a turd in a toilet
Flush him down the drain

Geoff Baker
Black hair dye kills the
insane dictator. So says
the Weely World News.

Boise Weekly
Always a sweet boy.
Sewn in the sky as Sun. Kim!
So Dear, our Leader

Kristi Marshall Jordan
I thought Granma died
But imagine my relief
It was Kim Jong Il

Kimberly M. Raymond-Jensen
Dictator Kim Jong
Wronery no long in hell
Satan shows him love

Todd Camack
You've lorded the North
with your iron-fisted rule;
now it's "Miller Time".

Todd Camack
Netflix wonders how
Revered Leader will return
"Team America".

Todd Camack
Platform shoes, big hair...
Satan really goes crazy
for a sharp-dressed man!

Colby Spath
Kim Jong you got il
On a slow train from China
Our hearts disobey

Todd Camack
Backwards pineapples:
not just reserved for Hitler
in Hell, anymore...

Todd Camack
Dead Kim Jong Il asks,
"What's with all of these haikus?"
Shut up, bend over!

Travis Browndyke
Kim Jong-Il never
again to see the sunlight
HOW DOES THAT DIRT TASTE

Todd Camack
Das ist merkwurdig-
Wasn't he "Dr. Strangelove's"
biggest Asian fan?

Todd Camack
On the other hand...
Wasn't he "Dr. Strangelove's"
SMALLEST Asian fan?

Zane Thelonious Norsworthy
Oh supreme leader
Death did not obey your laws
Who will stop your son?

Boise Weekly
North Korea has nukes
We don't like starving children
The UN must act

Annie Berical
Sun, what have ye done?
Anxious now to meet young Un
Hope: A new flavor!

Zane Thelonious Norsworthy
The last sound he made
Reverberated like this:
Clip, Clop, Clip, Clop, Thunk!

Ah, the scenic majesty of America's national parks: The awe-inspiring natural wonder of Yellowstone, the towering rock faces of Yosemite, the spray-painted graffiti of the Grand Canyon ... wait, what?

It seems a Canadian tourist visiting one of the seven wonders of the natural world decided that he wanted to leave his own mark on the landmark. Four letters into writing his full name, Lucien Lionel Chenier, on the Duck on a Rock formation (a photographers' favorite), he was stopped.

Chenier didn't have much explanation for defacing one of the most iconic places in the world, other than he wanted his kids to be able to see his name in 20 years. Hmmm, is that spelled M-O-R-O-N or J-A-C-K-A-S-S?

Restoration is expected to cost more than $8,000 and will have to be done by a team of specialists who also happen to be rock climbers.

Check out the Ottawa Citizen's report on the incident.

We'd like to say thanks to our friends at the Associated Press for this one, but we're now way too traumatized to do much of anything other than peer into every corner and hiding place.

It turns out one Rexburg-area home was built on top of a den area snakes use for winter hibernation. The result: a horror movie come to life. Check out the whole story here. The home has been owned by several couples, all of whom have documented hundreds of snakes slithering not only outside and under the home, but in the walls and through rooms. Even the home's well water was tainted by the reptiles.

Not surprisingly, no one actually wants to live in a home so infested with snakes that the ground around it looks like it's moving. The home has been in foreclosure for awhile now, and apparently bank officials have a plan to capture and relocate the snakes. Yeah, let us know how that works out.

Thanks to a reader who brought this story to our attention early this morning.

Boise has made a number of top 10 lists in the last few years extolling the capital city's excellent livability, but here's one list that doesn't make Idaho as a whole look so livable.

The Daily Beast put Idaho at No. 45 in its list of the most tolerant states in the nation. Yeah, that's 45 out of 50, which means we're among the least tolerant states in the country.

The method:

Specifically, for each state we considered the number of hate crimes according to the FBI, the extent of hate-crime statutes, the number of complaints of discrimination filed through the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, the extent of fair-housing and fair-workplace laws, the percentage of residents that support same-sex marriage, the extent of legal rights for same-sex couples, and the percentage of residents that are accepting of various religions. We measured the scope of hate crime statutes with help from the resources at the Anti-Defamation League, including the ADL’s catalogue of hate crime statutes by state. Each state was given a score out of 100 points. Ties were broken based on hate-crime statistics—if the total points matched, the state with fewer hate crimes in the last year ranked higher.

Wisconsin was ranked No. 1, with a score of 77 out of a 100, and Wyoming bottomed out the list with a measly 32 out of 100.

Here's the detail on Idaho's stats:

That's right we're actually negative when it comes to gay rights.

Alternet, which reported on the list earlier this week, offered this bit of insight:

This wasn't included on the list, but interestingly, the 10 most tolerant states all went Democratic in the 2008 election and the 10 least tolerant states are all red states, with the exception of Ohio.

Bjork. Singing Karaoke. Nuff said.

I'm a lover of animals, both wild and domesticated. I'm also a fan of autumn—it's my favorite of the four seasons. However, the fact that it coincides with hunting season is a huge downer for me. In recent days, when I've been in the hills and mountains north of Boise, I've heard the resonant cracks of shotguns, and wondered whether the ammo hit its intended target.

Sadly for the deer and elk, their home in the woods is not a safe place right now. Ordinarily, Highway 55 isn't a safe place for them either. Case in point: last night when a co-worker and I were driving home from McCall, an elk wandered onto Highway 55, possibly thinking its chances on the open road were at least as good as its chances of staying alive in the Payette National Forest. Believe it or not, it was right. Sure, we hit it, but thanks to my driving partner's quick reaction, the impact occurred at a relatively low speed, and the elk shrugged it off and walked away.

Our Subaru was not so fortunate. Below is my view through the passenger-side windshield:

It's just one of the top 10 overpriced items called out by Wallet Pop. Other chief offenders? Text messages, coffeeshop coffee and wine in restaurants.

Check out the full list and then maybe reconsider texting your buddy next time you stand in line for your double caramel latte.