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July 26th, 2004

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A town in Italy has banned people from keeping goldfish in bowls.
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The council in Monza believes fish get a “distorted view of reality” if they’re kept in a bowl.
...”You have no idea of the hygiene problems caused by animals and people living together and we don’t want to see animals treated like objects any longer.
(Thanks [...]

July 13th, 2004

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Children as young as 10 are being recruited to fight for the Palestinian cause.
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The recruits, some of whom are dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles, are taught how to carry out ambushes.
They are also made to do an obstacle course, crawling under barbed [...]

June 2nd, 2004

“post traumatic slave syndrome”

It takes a sociology professor to sink to this level of lunacy:
A Portland lawyer says suffering by African Americans at the hands of slave owners is to blame in the death of a 2-year-old Beaverton boy.
Randall Vogt is offering the untested theory, called post traumatic slave syndrome, in his defense of Isaac Cortez Bynum, who [...]

June 1st, 2004

duh

I bought an apple pie today. The top of the container has the words NOT FOR WEIGHT CONTROL. Is there an apple pie that you do eat for weight control, or is this warning for idiots who are liable to sue because they got fat from eating too many pies? Don’t [...]

May 18th, 2004

After Mrs. Gandhi told senior party leaders Tuesday that she would not accept the top slot, party activists publicly pleaded in front of her home for a change of heart. One distraught Congress worker put a pistol to his head and threatened to commit suicide unless Gandhi reconsidered…One BJP minister resigned at the prospect of [...]

April 29th, 2004

Robbers die trying to hold-up suicide bomber

No comment:A Hamas suicide bomber blew up two armed Palestinians who tried to rob him at gun point in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas claimed the stickup men worked for Israeli intelligence, while Palestinian security forces said the two were ordinary thieves.

Rather than give up his explosives, the bomber detonated them, killing himself and the two robbers [...]

November 25th, 2003

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The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term “Master/Slave” in product descriptions and labelling.

November 15th, 2003

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Police on Friday removed the corpse of a man believed to have hanged himself at least a year ago after builders and students at Budapest’s University of Arts had initially mistaken it for a modern sculpture.

November 9th, 2003

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Masturbation is like owning a Ferrari and driving only in first gear, a senior Catholic theologian said in an article published Wednesday.

“Driving only in first gear, not only do you prevent the Ferrari expressing its full power, but gradually you wear it out and thereby ruin a masterpiece of technology,” Father Giordano Muraro wrote in [...]