http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087257 A 19 year old Florida college kid was jailed for possession of marijuana and was raped by his cell mate. “Though the two men would normally have been separated, they were grouped together because delivering marijuana and sexual battery are both considered felonies.” You know, I thought the whole point of law enforcement was to protect the non-violent from
Cow plunges off cliff onto moving minivan
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0760029520071107?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews So you’re driving down the road in your minivan and out of the clear blue sky, a live cow falls on top of you… Quick! What are the first words out of your mouth!?
Pat Robertson endorsement of Giuliani shows schism among Christian conservatives
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/11/08/robertson_endorses_giuliani_brownback_backs_mccain/ Moves underscore divided Christian conservative vote… One word: SHEEP
Sitting At Your Desk Not Good For Productivity?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071105/014959.shtml employees who remain deskbound all the time have their productivity stifled and are much more prone to injury…
Y Combinator Inspires Imitators – BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2007/sb20070926_620433.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz%20index%20page_top%20stories From the page: “Paul Graham knows that most startups will eventually fail. But at Y Combinator, the hacker guru’s seed fund for young techies, they’re encouraged to fail fast and fail cheap and then to reboot and start again. Designed with the new economics of Web-based entrepreneurship in mind, Y Combinator is a new type of venture fund dispensing
BBC NEWS – Man, 72, refused alcohol over age
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7003325.stm I understand the law is the law, but come on, people. Why are we allowing our governments to weed out the use of a little thing called COMMON SENSE?!
Most successful pirate was beautiful and tough – CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/08/27/woman.pirate/index.html?iref=newssearch “Wife of Cheng” Sounds like a great title for one hell of a movie based on the story.
http://www.linkinn.com/_The_World_s_Wackiest_Holidays-eurion Boston, USA: Zombie March For the third straight year, Bostonians dressed as zombies marched from Boston to Cambridge’s Harvard Square in what organizers call a non-political, no-agenda good time.
Huge hole in universe surprises astronomers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415284/
Rolling Stone | Music News, Videos, Photos, Artists, Playlists and More
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/08/13/van-halen-reunion-tour-dates-announced-first-gig-september-27-in-north-carolina/ Diamond Dave… are those… IMPLANTS? No seriously, Dave, you played the male lead in all my romantic teenage dreams. Glad to see ya back.
Flint, MI Local News
http://www.mlive.com/news/flintjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-45/118666924938200.xml&coll=5 From the page: “FLINT – A broken shovel and a hole are all that remain at the spot where children planted a tree two years ago to remember “Grandma Jan.” The tall, flowering tree that children pooled their change to buy has been stolen. “It was their pennies, nickels and dimes that bought that tree. … It’s very sad,”
The Police State Takeover Of Schools
http://infowars.net/articles/july2007/240707Schools.htm Schools have become hi-tech prisons. Children all across America and the UK are being conditioned to accept that they are not free and that they must submit to draconian laws and measures for their own safety. Soon enough children will not even know what it is like to act as a private individual within society. Don’t believe this? Read
Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet
http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/censorship/_index.html From the page: “This study has found that censorship of the Internet is commonplace in most regions of the world. It is clear that in most countries over the past two years there has been an acceleration of efforts to either close down or inhibit the Internet”
Walmart Worker Fired For Posting Joke On MySpace
via The Consumerist David is Consumerist reader who works at Walmart. He was recently fired for posting a joke that mentioned Walmart on his MySpace. The comment: The exact quote said “Drop a bomb on all the Walmarts, trailer parks, ghettos, monster truck shows, and retarded fake “pro wrestling” events, and the average I.Q. score would probably double.” This was