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see "Fake officials "reopen" New Orleans public housing" (Reuters, 8/29/06) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060829/od_nm/hurricanes_prank_dc more »

PUBLISHED in the Washington Times, 8/22/06 http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060821-094833-2600r The world, especially here in Boulder, is clearly not short on theories about John Mark Karr and his confession to the JonBene… more »

see "Gibson Asks For Forgiveness For Anti-Semitic Tirade" (NewsNet5.com, 8/1/06) http://www.newsnet5.com/entertainment/9607959/detail.html While I don't care much about Mel Gibson and his various controversies, it always struck me as somewhere betwee… more »

Congratulations to Italy for their victory in the World Cup final. Having lived in Amsterdam when their team was arguably the best in the world, I caught a bit of soccer fever, and I must say I wonder why Americans seem so uninterested in such a gre… more »

see "Got breast milk? New state law celebrated" (Birmingham News, 7/2/06) http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/115183194851680.xml&coll=2 In what I thought to be a fairly funny bit of news, the company that Americans probabl… more »

So the fanatical (and maybe even not-so-fanatical) Christians want people to boycott and protest the "Da Vinci Code" movie, despite the fact that the book was clearly published as fiction. Yet these same people promoted Mel Gibson's "The Passion of th… more »

Thanks to Christopher for this one.... May 11, 6:26 PM (ET) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authoritie… more »

see "EXCLUSIVE: TOM CHEWS" Mission Impossible star Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16958010%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive--tom-chews-name_page.html And thanks to Mike for passing… more »

see "Moussaoui Judge to Consider Dismissing U.S. Death Penalty Case" (Bloomberg News, 3/113/06) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000082&sid=au3.Aj3rvVnU&refer=canada In a stunning example of either stupidity or ego, a lawyer for the T… more »

[Updated with the Oscar winners] My wife (Kristen), my in-laws (Bob and Di), and I are announcing our Academy Award predictions. Please keep in mind that most of us have seen almost none of the movies involved. For example, I haven't seen any of the m… more »