This would be a red badge of dishonor – a “Scarlet L.”

The Ethics Commission in Los Angeles is mulling a proposal that would make political lobbyists wear badges identifying themselves each time they enter a municipal building, according to the Los Angeles Times.

LA lobbyists are outraged by the plan and have likened it to the yellow Star of David Jews were made to wear in Nazi Germany.

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For more then five years, beautician Julea Penland has offered a free haircut to anyone in Kitsap County (Wash.) willing to lose their mullet.

But apparently, the people of Kitsap County are still all about business in the front and party in the back – because no one has taken her offer.

“People with mullets either love them and want to keep them, or they don’t know they have them,” Penland told The Seattle Times. “They’re in mullet denial.”

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Mankind is turning out the lights on fireflies in Thailand.

Tour-boat operators and scientists agree that that the magical little bugs are fading away, due to urban sprawl and industrial pollution. The spread of artificial light also could be at fault for disrupting the insects’ mating behavior, which depends on a male winning over a female by flashing its backside.

“It is quite clear they are declining,” said Stefan Ineichen, a researcher who studies fireflies in Switzerland and runs a Web site on firefly sightings.

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Here’s more evidence that the words “British” and “fine cuisine” don’t belong together.

Famed Harrods department store launched a new line of ice cream with 20 traditional British flavors, including Yorkshire pudding, haggis and bangers and mash.

Haggis is sheeps’ stomach and bangers and mash is sausage and mashed potatoes – yeah, this all sounds creamy, smooth and yummy. Not.