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Musharraf Claims Victory in Vote to Extend Term Oh wait… let me look suprised. 😐

“Judge Rejects Jailing Of Material Witnesses Ruling Imperils Tool in Sept. 11 Probe — washingtonpost.com Yup… this is non-biased reporting. God forbid we release a man from jail who hsn’t been convicted of a crime and is not expected to testify. The idea that we have the right to incarcerate Continue Reading

Thong-Wearing Teens Kicked Out Of Dance Oy. When uptight morals collide with sexual casualness in one person, it all goes so terribly wrong.

“The original library of Alexandria housed 500,000 scrolls, which made it a center of culture and scholarship from the third century B.C. into the early Christian era. The modern Bibliotheca aims for similar stature as a global hub of information.” — Wired

“Likewise with the Online Personal Privacy Act. It is masquerading as pro-consumer when in fact it is pro-business. The new legislation is similar to laws passed in Europe that divide your personal information into two types. The first is “sensitive” information, such as your financial and medical history, race, lifestyle, Continue Reading

Israel Lists Demands for UN Mission to Jenin (Reuters) Apr 29 2002 7:12PM UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel appealed to the United States on Monday to make sure a U.N. fact-finding mission it has held up for more than 10 days into the devastation at the Jenin refugee camp would Continue Reading

Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, we’re-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers. — AlterNet These people Continue Reading

"You weren’t alive during the Microsoft conflict. We were beating each other with our own severed limbs."

Bringing you tommorrow’s headlines today: The Caspian Sea. The next big story, (assuming the planes stay in the air).

Patient having op on backside breaks wind, causing fire I don’t think I’ll be able to uncross my legs for weeks.

Boy adopted by chimps. Wait… I think I know this one… name of Greystoke, right?

Thousands of Inca Mummies Found Near Lima

Goth subculture and suburbia I’m never gonna get old.

EU bans internet blocking.

Feds might use Microsoft product for national online ID

Thpft!

Their successful track record with major demonstrations, including the April 2000 large-scale protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, has brought them or their aides invitations to share their crowd-control tactics with numerous other police forces across the country and around the world. — washingtonpost.com mmmmmHM. Their success Continue Reading

“Further, the system would not require users to toss their current computers or force service providers to create an entirely new, separate Web. Rather, it would be an evolution of the existing Web, using much the same technology. “ — David R. Baker No, but it would require that more Continue Reading

Will any new songs show up on the upcoming tour? We will not, because if we did, those songs would be bootlegged immediately and they would be on the Internet and downloaded. We would have to start all over again. — Don Henly on the Eagles Tour Oh my God! Continue Reading

China’s “Mother Tongue” Is Dying