Monthly Archive: May 2003

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Spot! Spot!

Some people are just dying to get washboard abs… Roberts was 55-years-old when he died of a heart attack Friday morning. He collapsed while working out at 24-Hour Fitness … employees covered his body...

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Lizard Head Meets Chicken Head!

Finger Licking Good! Unlike the Chicken-Head-In-McDonald’s-Fries story, these guys found a lizard head in their Applebee’s chicken salad. “Based on our initial investigation, we believe that somehow a small ‘fence lizard’ managed to deeply...

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Girls Gone Wild

Saddam Hussein, despite all his ills, gave these women many of their rights three decades ago, making Iraq the relatively progressive oasis of women’s rights in a highly conservative and repressive region … “We...

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Keeping Baghdad Dirty

I noticed that UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Programme, has issued a report critical of the US refusal to allow pollution inspectors into Iraq to measure the amount of radiological pollution from the Pentagon’s...

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Mis Stake

So apparently “Stakeknife” has fled Ireland, and it wasn’t Adams. Earlier here.

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No Weapons, No Problems

So I read that the Pentagon is “winding down” its search for banned weapons in Iraq, without finding anything of consequence. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? What’s remarkable about this article is...

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Hit Me With Your Rapture Schtick!

NTK had this Rapture Index. 1 False Christs 2 2 Occult 4 3 Satanism 1 4 Unemployment 5+1 5 Inflation 1 6 Interest Rates 1 7 The Economy 4 8 Oil Supply/Price 2 9...

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Fibs and Fabulations

They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal�a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon�s Office of Special Plans … By last fall, the operation rivalled both the C.I.A. and the...

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Going Out With A Bang, Or A Buzzsaw

So one guy holds a pipe bomb in his mouth as lights the fuse… Apparently his girlfriend, who was watching, claims he was “a risk taker”. Meanwhile, this other guy walks into the butcher...

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Fallujah Post Mortem

The massacre in Falluja was symptomatic. The town was quiet for two weeks after Iraqi troops and local Ba’ath party leaders fled. The imams halted the looting and got much of the stolen property...