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  • Euro bills in Germany mysteriously disintegrating

    You can be sure that the Unabomber is sitting in his cell smiling right now. This is an ingenius way to attack the structures of civilization he hates. The article…

  • U.S. Nuclear Envoy on North Korea 'Not Very Helpful'

    SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea said Tuesday it considered U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the country for its nuclear test “a declaration of war,” as Japan and South Korea…

  • Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants

    Leave it to the Canadians to find the weed. cd OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost…

  • Cat o'Nine Tails

    I wish this sort of punishment were administered more often. Especially in a crime like this one… cd By John Marquis A man convicted of trying to rape an 83-year-old…

  • Madonna adopts Baby Malawi Boy

    While I think that this is a very cool trend (celebrities adopting children from poor countries) there is something disturbing about it.  Who will be the next to do it? Will it…

  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished-Save a life, get robbed.

    This comes from Oahu’s North Shore yesterday. I have an uncle that likes to say that no good deed goes unpunished. He would probably love this story… cd A skydiving…

  • TuckerMax signs second book deal

    It pays to be an asshole. Just ask Dick Cheney. cd TuckerMax.com: “Assholes Finish First” deal is officially announced “Assholes Finish First” deal is officially announced Here is the Publishers…

  • Hurrican Hugo slams into Bush at the UN

    President Hugo Chavez, who I am now thinking of as a category 4 hurricane bearing down on the Bush administration continues to build steam in his push to knock the…

  • Unfinished Tolkien work to be published

    NEW YORK – An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers…

  • Libertarian Utopia in Science Fiction

    I am an anarchist, a libertarian, and a humanist. In addition to that I am a lesbian, a buddhist, a dadaistic neurosurgeon, and a subgenius. If that isn’t enough labels…

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  • Nurturing nonchalance about condoms in Andhra Pradesh

    A public health intervention that makes sense?? Can hardly believe it. Right on. A truck driver’s assistant blows up a condom during an AIDS awareness campaign organised by a non-governmental…

  • This little sucker will kill you….it did…bummer.

    This story makes me sad. What a bummer that this guy spent so much time with really dangerous animals and had the bad luck to die with an animal most…

  • Strongest Permanent Magnets Ever

    Get these at ThinkGeek. The Strongest Permanent Magnets Ever Manufactured! Set Of Eighty-Seven Neodymium Rare Earth Magnets These Curiously Strong magnets have amazing strength in a very small size. Five…

  • Border cops nab cheese smuggler

    Damn, now I have to pay full price to replenish Mink Hippie’s cheese supply! cd PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) – Puzzled U.S. border police arrested a Mexican smuggler with 88 pounds…

  • Lt. Watada May Face Court Martial

    I heard Watada speaking at length the other day on KTUH, our uncompromised college radio station on Oahu. His arguments were compelling. Consider that at the time Afghanistan and Iraq…

  • Gnarly Mamas – The Spanish Version

    When I was a kid, our gang of kids used to play a game we called Gnarly Mamas. It was a stupid game. The idea was to go out at…

  • Tibetan government in exile launches online TV site

    Xeni Jardin blogged this over at BoingBoing. I like the stories Xeni posts. Sometimes she scoops me, but sometimes I scoop her too. If she ever wants to blog with…

  • The Chuck Norris Bridge?

    Those crazy Hungarians are at it again…what will they do next? First a porno philanderer tourism campaign and now the Chuck Norris bridge…. cd BUDAPEST (Reuters) – A new bridge…

  • Graceland visit for Elvis' biggest fan

    OK, I don’t think this is exactly hot-off-the-press, but I just heard about it and I am ROFL. Elvis and Koizumi share a birthday… January 8th. Summits between US President…

  • Nude cyclists peel off around Spanish cities

    This reminds me of last years Burning Man Festival where I participated in a nude bike ride and Mink Hippie wore nothing but some body paint in the Critical Tits…

  • The Incredible Ice Cream Drunken Driver

    Okay…I’ve been pretty lax on my homework….here are the stories I have been following the past several days… cd Dennis Cogburn likes to do things in the good old-fashioned cowboy…

  • Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek

    I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They…

  • Bush pans Spanish Star Spangled Banner

    This is the most ridiculous thing ever!!! Can you believe these guys push all this patriotic bullshit on all of us Americans, no matter what language we speak, and then…

  • Naked Venezuelans surround Bolivar's statue

    From the land of Hugo Chavez… More than 1,500 people have gathered around a statue of 19th century liberation hero Simon Bolivar in Venezuela and posed nude for a US…

  • White House open again for Adams

    Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has had a far warmer reception in Washington than he did on his last St Patrick’s Day visit, when the doors of the White House…