28 April 2003
Stark County sheriff’s deputies don’t think a
township boy’s house cat
could have shot him.
It's Charleston's own version of "shock and awe:" scantily clad sunbathers soaking up
the rays in Marion Square.
Some of my photographs.
The sky is falling!!!
26 April 2003
A Big
Mac in China is now cheaper than anywhere else.
Police chief told to keep his hugs to
himself.
READING THE BIBLE in public isn't a crime in West Virginia -
unless you're doing in the nude.
Animal Rights Leader Wants to Be Barbecued.
Bunker
buster missiles aim at Moon.
25 April 2003
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I
don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
Do surgical masks
really help prevent the spread of SARS?
A prominent Republican fund-raiser who once said former President
Bill Clinton was "a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation's young
people" pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court to production of child
pornography.
Americans are part of an unregulated experiment that allows toxic chemicals
to bioaccumulate in their bodies.
Dixie
Chicks Pose Nude in Answer to Critics.
Your girlfriend might be a stripper if...
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster has radically changed the lives of worms
in the region, which now enjoy more sex.
The hormone best known
for its role in inducing labor may influence our ability to bond with others.
The first eclipse of 2003
occurs on the evening of Thursday, May 15.
Drinking tea
appears to boost the immune system.
A high school English teacher was suspended
for three days after showing a class portions of the R-rated movie "Dracula"
without the OK from administrators or parents.
23 April 2003
On April 25, 1953, the science journal Nature announced that James
Watson and Francis Crick had discovered the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule
that is fundamental to life. But absent from most accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning
work is the contribution made by a scientist -- molecular biologist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin -- who would never know
that Watson and Crick had seen a key piece of her data without her permission and that it
would lead them to the double helix.
Cannabis, the
third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and tobacco, could win a new role as
the aspirin of the 21st century.
20 April 2003
If I was a welder, I would want one of these.
12-step program for web addicts.
(Thanks to Lauren)
LSD
Takes Trip Down Memory Lane at Age 60.
America has discovered a new beer. Hint: This used to be my favorite
beer.
Four police officers have received suspensions in a case in which two of
them were reputed to have humiliated
a woman they had been called to help and who they thought was unconscious.
19 April 2003
In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can
change almost anything into oil.
Don't just listen to music, FEEL it!
Some may pooh-pooh the claim, but with over 2 million sold, golden turds are the latest
hit consumer product to raise a stink in fad fetish Japan.
Arrest in dog
rescue outrages pet lovers.
KUWAIT CITY -- Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein has been caught with his pants down -- literally. A shocking 1968 porn film
has surfaced, in which the flamboyant strongman appears performing raunchy homosexual
acts!
18 April 2003
Mindfulness In
Plain English.
Tips from kids on how to find Easter eggs.
Now that the war is over, can we go back to eating French's Mustard?
Rodney King copycat
Artist wants paintings
back from Saddam's love nest. (pic)
There's an old joke that goes: "Excuse me officer, can you
tell me the fastest way to get to traffic court?"
"Yes sir, just drive a hundred miles an hour."
WHITESTOWN, N.Y. -- Eight people are seeking $600,000 apiece in
damages in a lawsuit involving a woman convicted of repeatedly urinating into an office coffee
pot.
An American toy company has begun selling a talking doll of the
Iraqi Information Minister, widely known as Comical Ali.
Vietnamese
prostitutes trying to lure customers in the resort town of China Beach have been
taking English classes to improve their chances.
17 April 2003
Yet another use for duct tape.
21-year-old Wisconsin man was just busted for assaulting the Easter Bunny.
Lawn
Mower Racing the Cutting Edge Sport.
New Research Dispels Popular Myth That A Bully's Words Will Never
Hurt You.
When pigs fly...
16 April 2003
Not just a staple of science fiction, other
universes are a direct implication of cosmological observations.
FORT WORTH - A Denton teen-ager was blinded this weekend and faces
reconstructive surgery because a toy gun he was playing with shot a frog into his
face.
15 April 2003
The line dividing acceptable from unacceptable meat is sometimes a fine
one.
A study has found one in four New Zealand women has been attracted
to another woman at some point.
The paintings and murals
found in Saddam Hussein's private quarters betray a mind obsessed with sex and violence.
Mexican villagers stone 'witch' to
death.
Christianity
offers a convenient divine mandate for hatred and violent acts against a wide range of
people.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some people are surrendering the booty they
took in the Dura district of Baghdad, perhaps in response to a rumored edict by a Muslim
cleric forbidding Iraqi wives from having sex with looter husbands.
History
Of Easter (April 20th)
TORONTO - Catholic churches in Toronto are going to do Easter differently this
year after 500 members of a tightly knit religious group were quarantined due to the
outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
14 April 2003
In wartime the press is always
part of the problem.
Guinness Book of Records Declares 'Tarzan' Star Cheeta to Be the
World's Oldest Chimpanzee at 71.
Shoulder-fired
weapons can hit a jet 4 miles away, 10,000 feet up.
The SA-7 was the first
generation of Soviet man portable surface-to-air missiles.
Mythical Garden
of Eden now a wasteland.
The founder of Islam, Mohammad, would have acquired a nuclear bomb to
fight his enemies.
Ever since Islam was founded it
has left behind a legacy of violent atrocities and horrible crimes.
13 April 2003
GREATEST SECRETS OF THE COLD
WAR.
Safe house or bachelor pad? Troops discover home of one of Saddam's
hideaways.
Iraq
Humor Site Crashes From Overuse.
Sony Tries to Trademark 'Shock
and Awe'.
Seven U.S. Troops Found
North of Baghdad.
Where does the saying "rule of thumb" originate?
12 April 2003
As in much of Asia, Thai rural communities know that certain animals are not only tasty, but
a good source of protein, minerals and vitamins.
Giving new meaning to the term phone sex, a British company is
selling software that transforms a cell phone into a sex toy.
As Americans Prepare to Pay their Taxes, Corporate Fat Cats Abandon our Country to
Avoid Paying Their Fair Share.
Here's how to contact
your Congressman.
11 April 2003
Did George W. Bush go AWOL during his time in the
National Guard?
America Pays Its Troops with Empty
Rhetoric.
What the (expletive) is
happening to our everyday language?
10 April 2003
LONDON, April 10 (UPI) -- The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue
in Baghdad's al-Firdous Square made an impact on millions of people around the world. Not
all of it was positive, however.
Cannibalism
was probably rife among our prehistoric ancestors, claims a new study of the Fore, an
isolated tribe living in Papua New Guinea.
9 April 2003
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Wednesday they were
scouring the countryside for four
nuns after a hit-and-run accident near the northern city of Bergamo.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. - Police say they aren't sure what charge is
appropriate for a man arrested
after tellers laughed him out of a bank he apparently tried to rob.
American companies that move their headquarters offshore to avoid
paying taxes will be the target of a new television
advertisement that questions their patriotism during a time when U.S. soldiers are
fighting in Iraq.
U.S. Tells Iran, Syria, N. Korea 'Learn
from Iraq'
Iraqis Topple Large Saddam
Statue in Baghdad.
7 April 2003
Where did the expression "raining
cats and dogs" come from?
The number of people in U.S. prisons and jails last year topped 2 million for
the first time.
6 April 2003
Modesty to Majesty: The Development of the Codpiece.
In 1735, a delightful 28-year-old German woman named Johanna
Sophia Schmied gave birth to a monster unlike any
creature we have seen before or since.
Kittens playing
happy music on the beach.
How to produce legible
protest signs.
How to become an obnoxious internet cam whore in five
easy steps.
Many top scientists believe that aliens
live secretly among us. The sneaky intergalactic travelers often pose as our friends,
neighbors and co-workers while they learn the ways of Earth. But how can you tell invading
aliens from real humans?
A Connecticut man has been told to change the name of his Mexican
restaurant because it spells the Spanish word for testicles.
5 April 2003
Nostalgic Small
Town Puts Cannabis
on Its Flag.
I wonder if our troops in Iraq have found any more "Baby Milk
Factories"?
If you’re planning a trip to another universe, via a black
hole, be sure to head for the weak
sector.
Humans will begin a voyage to the nearest star this century, a
NASA researcher says. And the crew might more resemble a tribal society than the chain of
command of traditional space missions. Procreation
would be required: The crew that arrived would be descendents of those that left.
Tornado jets are poised to use yet another different weapon in the
war against Iraq ... concrete
bombs.
An Iraqi man who helped U.S. Marines plan the rescue of Army Pfc.
Jessica Lynch has been granted refugee status and has been described by the Marines as a "hero."
This is an outstanding article on light infantry vs armor tactics
involving the popular shoulder-fired RPG-7.
North
Korea Warns It Will Ignore UN on Suspected Nuclear Weapons Program. I guess they
haven't been watching the news from Iraq.
Are laws of
war relevant when they are so easy to break and so seldom punished?
Newfound L.A.
Fault Threatens Major Quake.
4 April 2003
Come learn the history
of daylight saving, from Benjamin Franklin to the present...
Traveling? Take Big Brother Along.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A National Guard battalion commander is being
relieved of his command for running naked
outside the barracks at Fort Bragg.
A six-month ban on smoking in all
public places slashed the number of heart attacks in a US town by almost a half, a new
study has revealed.
Private First
Class Jessica Lynch, rescued Tuesday from an Iraqi hospital, fought fiercely and shot
several enemy soldiers after Iraqi forces ambushed the Army's 507th Ordnance Maintenance
Company, firing her weapon until she ran out of ammunition, U.S. officials said yesterday.
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - An Oregon anti-terrorism
bill would jail street-blocking protesters for at least 25 years in a thinly veiled effort
to discourage anti-war demonstrations, critics say.
How to make a Starship Enterprise out of
an old floppy disk.
How Apache Helicopters Work.
Hungry?
3 April 2003
Depleted uranium
weapons risk 'very small'.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Exuberant
breasts exposed by beauty queens at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival or those stretching
scanty bikini tops on Brazil's beaches often have little to do with nature's generosity.
Old "Giant" Squid Dwarfed by New "Colossal" Squid
Species.
ALTON - A Godfrey man has been putting obscene pictures of
himself, along with his e-mail address, on the windshields of young women's cars, Alton
Police said Tuesday.
Dinosaur Cannibal
Unearthed In Madagascar.
Its official: elephants can run.
The White House anti-drug office will end its controversial drugs-and-terror advertising
campaign.
1 April 2003
Guest Editorial
International Children's
Digital Library
Flipper goes AWOL
Operation Iraqi Freedom Maps
Television agendas shape images
of war.
The Museum of Unworkable Devices.
The people of Iraq are terrified of Saddam Hussein.
What Does a "Thumbs Up"
Mean in Iraq?
IN CENTRAL IRAQ - There is a war on, and danger lurks ahead, and
the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry are getting desperate — for tobacco.
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