“Nearly 3,000 new luxury cars on board a carrier ship which sank in the English Channel are almost certainly write-offs, salvage experts have said. — BBC There is some evil little guy on my left shoulder reveling in all this. Any dumbass who spends the equivilant of a small country’s Continue Reading
Okay… newspapers officially all suck. I usually respected the BBC for presenting more real news. But the fact that they had an article about the outcome of the Winona Ryder court case… there goes all my respect.
Boy Scouts kick out avowed atheist — The Seattle Times Okay… not one reporter who has written about this story seems to know anything about the boy scouts, really. The guy is an eagle scout. End of the line for boy scouts. He’s effectively done. To get to this stage, Continue Reading
Okay,… it’s official. She’s now the sleaziest person in music. Mick Jagger is dead; long live the queen. Currently on the box: The Day I Went Away from the album “Sleater-Kinney” by Sleater-Kinney
“O’Neil is alleging that while she shopped there on Oct. 19, 1999, a creature that appeared to be a lizard jumped out of a tropical plant display, and she tripped over the animal. As a result, she experienced extreme pain and suffering, and permanent injuries, resulting in loss of earnings Continue Reading
“It’s easy to fail in e-business; what’s hard is failing magnificently. The Big Five music-recording companies have been transcendent in this respect. Their combined efforts have gone beyond killing their e-businesses and are close to destroying an entire industry.” — globetechnology.com Very cool article from a Canadian journalist, about all Continue Reading
“The incident on Delta Flight 442 was scary enough last month: U.S. marshals seized an unruly passenger, then one aimed a pistol at other passengers for a half hour and shouted at them to stay seated. “The event, however, didn’t end there. Unknown to most passengers on the Atlanta-to-Philadelphia flight, Continue Reading
“When 15-year-old Katie Sierra wore T-shirts bearing this version of the American pledge as well as other sayings that showed her opposition to the war in Afghanistan, teachers and students at her West Virginia High School were outraged. Some students of Sissonville High School allegedly threatened to give Katie a Continue Reading
“A statue of a falling woman — designed as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death from the World Trade Center — was abruptly draped in cloth and curtained off Wednesday because of complaints that it was too disturbing. “I don’t think it dignifies their deaths,” Continue Reading
“Russian satellites have discovered a river flowing 700 feet under the Sahara. It carries enough water to supply 50,000 people and is said to surge with ‘colossal power’” — Ananova Shades of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Yes, you should read it, runt.
U.S. national security agencies are on alert for a terrorist attack after the discovery that a Middle Eastern man carried out suspicious surveillance of the Washington Monument, the Pentagon and other buildings in the area. The man in question videotaped the Washington Monument on the Mall on Sept. 1 and Continue Reading
“Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word "niggardly" to her class last week in an effort to improve her students’ vocabularies. Now, a parent wants her fired. Although the word means stingy, Akwana Walker said it was inappropriate to use it because it sounds similar Continue Reading
“The legislation would also provide $25 million in federal matching grants to states to help them buy electronic highway signs and other equipment needed to set up an Amber alert system, as well as education and training programs.” — CNN.com Okay… now wasn’t the point of the Amber alert system Continue Reading
You just can’t make this shit up: Britney turned on by lesbian porn: Pop star gets tight with sultry adult-movie queen We now have every teenage boys wet dream.
Counter-protest to the Nazi rally at the Capitol this weekend.
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.” — Ann Coulter
“The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling released yesterday. “A May 17 opinion Continue Reading
“U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be in town next week focusing on the environment. “Local officials confirmed this morning that the junior senator will be making a stop in Geneva Thursday, Aug. 29. A time and location will be announced later. The event will be open to the public.” Continue Reading
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