There’s this little nagging voice in my brain that likes to remind me I’m completely unqualified to discuss virtually everything in any kind of public forum and that I shouldn’t–nay can’t–keep running this blog because my uninformed opinions don’t matter.
But then, I’ll get a personal message from Al Gore informing me he’s endorsing Barry Obama [...]
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New Security scanners—glass booths that emit “millimeter waves” which penetrate cloth and can identify “metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives”—are being placed in US Airports.
The scanners will create a 3D image of your body and project it into a separate room for security officials to take a gander at. So yes, airport security [...]
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Tags: Airport·JFK·LAX·Naked X-Ray Machines·New Airport Scanners·Schipol·Security Scanner·Sky Harbor
26% percent of people in New York City have HSV-2, while the national average clocks in at 19%. Far more women have the disease (36% compared to 19% of men) and far more African-Americans have it (49% in comparison to 14% of Whites).
As a black woman, this is pretty much the worst [...]
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Tags: 1 in 4·Herpes·New York City
Picture of Kucinich from when he was Mayor of Cleveland ( circa 1978). Hey there, Tiger!
Dennis Kucinich, I own nothing in this cruel world but a smelly cat with a shitty attitude, a savings account with a negative balance and a taut young body, but you are surely welcome to all three for being [...]
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19-year old Joaquin Rico and 24-year-old Joseph R. Espinoza turned themselves in two days after allegedly robbing a convenience store of cash and cigarettes, stuffing their ill-gotten gains into a bright pink backpack.
The unarmed men tried to disguise themselves by wearing thongs (one blue and one green) over their faces, but the underwear only barely [...]
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Tags: Colorado·Pink Backpack·Robbery·Thong Bandits
“Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.”
–Barack Obama, 6/3/08, St. Paul, Minnesota
Barry has locked up more than the 2,118 delegates needed for nomination at the Democratic convention in August.
Some political analysts (Sean Penn among them) say [...]
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Tags: Barack Obama·Bill Clinton·Democratic Party·Hillary Clinton·Nominee·United States
Last month eight-year-old Haley Lents swallowed ten magnets and twenty steel balls, because she thought they, “looked like candy.”
Well, they weren’t and she was hospitalized when she began having pain so severe she could barely stand. The Magnetix toy parts caused eight rips in her intestines and she had to stay at the hospital [...]
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Tags: children·Haley Lents·Indiana·Jason Lents·kids·Maggie Rodriguez·Magnetix·magnets·surgery