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German Callousness: Kicking Hurricane Victims While They're Down - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News Hurricane Katrina has cost the lives of hundreds and devastated the US Gulf Coast. But instead of aid donations and sympathy, the Americans have heard...

Turns out there's a link between "Star Trek" and being a perv. Ellen Ladowsky: Pedophilia and Star Trek - Yahoo! News After reviewing a bunch of episodes from the original Star Trek series, what became apparent is that sexuality on the Enterprise is pretty...

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Lileks strikes again

Published on August 17 2005

Newhouse A1 " The hard left in America needs to realize a bald, cruel fact: Anyone who sees no moral distinction between Israel and the mullahs of Iran, or sees the U.S. attempt to set up a constitutional republic in Iraq as equivalent to the Syrian occupation...

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I LOVE a good rant in the morning

Published on August 15 2005

The Mighty Middle It's a slow news day, so let's pass the time blowing up political cliches. One from the Left, one from the Right.

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Is this for real???

Published on August 12 2005

Walken 2008 - Official Website and I loved the poster on this site!! :-)) More Cowbell

My Way News Oil prices zoomed higher Wednesday, touching a new high of $65 a barrel, with buyers focused on refinery snags and shrinking U.S. inventories of gasoline. The latest rally - crude futures have risen 14 percent in three weeks - highlights just...

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Grumble, grumble...

Published on August 11 2005

Chrenkoff Just as I get pointed to an interesting and good read.......the read gets a new job and quits blogging. Steven den Beste, redeux....

CNN.com - Man forgets wife at gas station - Aug 8, 2005 ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- A Macedonian man left his wife at an Italian service station and only realized he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said. The couple, who were...

Michael Barone: Cultures aren't equal In The Age of Melbourne, Australia, Pamela Bone wrote, "Perhaps it is time to say, you are welcome, but this is the way it is here." The Age's Tony Parkinson quoted the French writer Jean Francois Revel's Cold War...

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Vincent Interview

Published on August 6 2005

FrontPage magazine.com :: In The Red Zone by Jamie Glazov Interesting interview with Stephen Vincent, the journalist who was murdered in southern Iraq last week. Interview conducted by Frontpage magazine--best quote: Vincent: As I’ve noted here and elsewhere,...