I love the French. I would move there but I don’t think anyplace cool allows Americans to emigrate anymore… cd Stone-throwing protesters clashed with police at the end of a march by several thousand university and high school students in Paris and later outside the Sorbonne university. A kiosk and a car were set ablaze…
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Afghanistan's feared woman warlord
I’m fascinated by “bandit queens.” You may have heard of India’s famous Bandit Queen, Phoolan Devi. (A movie has been made of her life – it was well done, but difficult to watch. And Phoolan Devi herself sought to have it banned as inaccurate.) We featured a previous post on the women warriors of Darfur….
'Stored odours' nail China felons
A collection of deep-frozen human body odours is helping police dogs in eastern China track down criminals, the Xinhua news agency reports. Some 500 odours, sampled from criminals and from different crime scenes, are stored in the scent “bank” in Nanjing. The archived scents are then presented to police dogs for comparison with odours recovered…
Inuit critical of McCartney's campaign against seal hunt
Canada’s annual seal hunt is starting again. Animal activists are lamenting this year’s increased quota. I bet the fur is realllly soft. If it could be produced by culturing it in a laboratory, I would totally wear it. I volunteer to try out the first cultured-seal-fur coat…. In the meantime, how about someone coming up…
Anniversary of My Lai Massacre
Sorry to be a downer. This is today’s NYT “On This Day…” On March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.
Impeachment Talk Reaches the Mainstream
As much as I would love to see this come to fruition, I can’t help but feel that it would be too late – the damage is done. William Goodman is the author of Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush. He recently appeared in Republican territory… on Joe Scarborough’s television show. It actually sounds…
Blondie at Hall of Fame ceremony: "Can't you see my band is up there?"
You’ll recall the articulate refusal of the Sex Pistols, previously featured…. Black Sabbath and Blondie are among the veteran acts who have been inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in New York. The Sex Pistols were also honoured, but refused to attend the event, having compared the organisation…
American Humanist Association–Join the AHA
I’m proud to be a member of the American Humanist Association. Sure, I have some ideas about spirituality and most of them have to do with finding truth…It’s why I like Buddhism…In my reality, Buddha was human, as was Jesus, as was Mohammad (Even Muslim’s agree with that), and all the rest of em….I believe…
College apologizes for Jesus giving head cartoon…
Apparently, they made the editor resign….I can’t see why… cd The college newspaper’s production manager explains what happened: “The comic was actually laid out and went to print as a result of an editorial oversight and a mistake.”
Free Coffee
This makes me like Starbucks a lot more. cd Starbucks to Serve More Than a Half-Million Cups of Complimentary Coffee across the U.S. During First-Ever Starbucks Coffee Break SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 14, 2006–More than 70 percent of Americans take at least one coffee break per day(1) and tomorrow, Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX – News) wants to…