Embattled Chavez resigns in Venezuela Something you’re not likely to hear much about in American news. After a General Strike began this week, including the all-important oil workers, and at least 13 protestors outside the presidential palace were shot to death by police, all the branches of the Army openly Continue Reading
Historic Midway shuts downs
Freedom for Booksellers While the Court didnt exactly tell the government to go to hell, it did specifically state that citizens have a right to purchase books without government interference. Thank you.
Did the Secretary of Defence just say “onesies and twosies” when refering to warfare?
Flasher escapes after being caught in his own zipper YeHa! I gotta meet this girl in ten years.
We gossiped a bit, and she scolded me for having visited a Washington shopping mall without appropriate protective equipment. Whenever she goes to a mall, she brings along a polyurethane bag "big enough to step into" and a bottle of bleach. "I can detoxify myself immediately," she said. — The Continue Reading
God Save the Queen: LONDON (Reuters) – Pop-up toilets that rise from the ground at night will be installed in central London in a bid to dissuade late-night male revelers from urinating against walls and doorways. The self-cleaning telescopic urinals, which Westminister City Council hopes to have in place by Continue Reading
Journalism is dead and Maxim is dancing on it’s grave.
At a news conference with Cheney at this Red Sea resort, Mubarak also addressed another difficult Mideast issue, saying he believes Iraq’s Saddam Hussein is close to agreeing to allow the return of U.N. weapons inspectors. Okay… eveybody here who believes this is going to work out, raise their hand. Continue Reading
Bush View of Secrecy Is Stirring Frustration
Any crack or perceived crack in the support, in the unity, of the American people and our leaders in Washington is not helpful,%uFFD3 Lott added, %uFFD2and it is important that we not be critical of the commander-in-chief in a time that we are at war.” — msnbc.com Kiss. my. fuzzy. Continue Reading
“A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a week.” Lady… if you have a 30 year old man living with you playing Nintendo 8 hours a day 6 days a week… you have some Continue Reading
Child refugee sex scandal Life is not pretty. In fact it is fucking morbid in western Africa. These are countries that suffered famines through the eighties, revolutions and lawlessness in the ninties. This is the place where the Army of God (?) was raised, forcing children not even into puberty Continue Reading
Warren Ellis: Prognosticator N.Y. Times source database hacked
The Shrub Does Beijing Ignorance and apple pie at it’s best.
Catholic Church Slams ‘Amen’ Poster And the Catholics sued… and lost. Thank you, I’m moving to France.
Powell Urges Condom Use Can you believe this argument is still going on? There’s an episode of the Sitcom Designing Women that dealt with this exact issue. A young man came to them to plan his funeral because he was dying of AIDS, while the schoolboard was arguing the merits Continue Reading
Laura’s Lessons From Lindh "Make sure your children are mature before you allow them to do certain things," Bush said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. Um, Laura, would that be like, umm, before you allow your kids to get arrested for drunk driving? Or more like, before Continue Reading
And in today’s round of “Give me a fuckin break”… Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs If these are their criteria, the FBI must have warnings out on half the people in my hometown If you’ve ever lived in a rural area, this shopping list is not the least Continue Reading
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