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Sex Suit To Come to Trial

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A lesson in why one should be careful how much detail one spills, and about whom.

Lazy Shits

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Click here to see why many federal workers didn’t get bonuses or pay raises in time for the Christmas holiday.

The AP Needs a Good Editor

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Does the Associated Press not hire writers and/or editors who can actually write proper English?
While reading this article about Interior Secretary Kempthorne touring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, I was horrified to run across the following sentence in the third paragraph down:
His flight from Deadhorse, 120 miles to the west, had been turn backed [...]

Which of These Is Not Like the Others

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In an otherwise okay little article on the CNN web site about how gangs are up online and how cops are using that to their advantage, there was this little gem:
“In order to understand any subculture, be it al Qaeda, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language,” [...]

Christian Persecution Complex

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Christian Conservatives are now suing for the right to discriminate.
I think this was the most telling comment from the article:
By equating homosexuality with race, Baylor said, tolerance policies put conservative evangelicals in the same category as racists. He predicts the government will one day revoke the tax-exempt status of churches that preach homosexuality is [...]

News from the Post

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Too many items to comment on today, but here’s the roundup of my favorites:
Montgomery County, Md, ‘Homeland Security’ officers try to police porn in local library; librarians successfully kick them out. One wonders what color their shirts were (brown, anyone?).
Virus targeting Macs is slowly spreading. My favorite quote: “One software expert who examined [...]

Taxi, please

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In case you live in DC and missed it, taxi fares went up today.

A Fitting Tribute

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Rosa Parks to lie in honor at the Capitol.
Rosa Parks, the African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., 50 years ago and lent a spark to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement, will make history again as the first woman ever [...]