In the vein of the infamous and controversial Cannibal Holocaust and the more recent The Blair Witch Project, comes the harrowing “true” story of four spoiled twenty-somethings who set out into the jungles of New Guinea armed with a few digital cameras to find the missing Michael Rockefeller and make themselves a million bucks by getting an exclusive [...]

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From the publisher’s side of things, there seems to be a general assumption that there are more people writing short fiction than there are consumers reading it (though it’s not a universally held assumption, and may live slightly more in the “gripes” category than reality). At the very least, the ship seems to be sinking… [...]

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When a pair of Iraqis make off with a mysterious medallion during the looting of a museum, they get more than the reward they were promised. Suddenly a monstrous winged lion with a scoripion tail straight from the pages of an ancient myth is brought to life to wreak havoc on a small Iraqi town. One thing leads to [...]

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Senator Clinton: Isn’t it time for you to have your Lloyd Bentsen / Dan Quayle moment with Senator Obama? I feel like a traitor to the moderates for writing you with a message I believe would help your campaign for the nomination. I may not vote for you, but that really is not important. We [...]

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Paris Hilton New SpokesCeleb for Tipsy Elephants Paris Trying to Rehabilitate Both Elephants and Image And no, boozing elephants does not mean alcohol-swilling Republicans. Evidently short and sweet statements can get you praise or your show taken off A and E. Witness Dog the Bounty Hunter and the power of uttering the N-word in a [...]

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Dollhouse Mike Boyle Thieves Jargon Press, 2007 ISBN 0977075036 176 pages, $9.99 Dollhouse by Mike Boyle is in-your-face writing that takes the reader on a wild ride through the sex-filled world of Tony Diggs, sometime rock musician, factory worker, and drug delivery boy. This is shock fiction reminiscent of Bukowski’s work, or Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. [...]

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Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives, As The World Turns, and The Young and The Restless. Days of Our Lives Chelsea and Morgan are worried that if Cordy changes her mind about testifying against Ford that he will get away with rape. Ford antagonizes the girls while waiting on the Dean to [...]

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In a refreshing op-ed in the Indian Express, JS Bandukwalla, retired Professor of Physics, MS University, Baroda, writing on the 2002 Gujarat riots has proposed this  it is time for Muslims to consider unilateral forgiveness as a Muslim I feel deeply grateful to civil rights groups for their fight on our behalf under the most [...]

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The article below is illustrative of the problems with the child support system in many ways: 1) I’ve often made the point that when we jail or threaten to jail child support debtors and they pay money to stay out of jail, this money often is not theirs but instead money they’ve borrowed from their [...]

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The big Philippine news is the bombing that killed two Philippine congressmen, including one from Basilan, and a driver. The bomb was exploded via a remote control, and the police are exploring the area to find to find evidence if the bomb was a IED, meaning there is a worry about a terrorist connection. But [...]

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An Unofficial Timeline in the Baby Grace Case Police Working Around the Clock Sifting Tips and Clues Why Has This Mystery Captured Worldwide Attention? Image [Google Earth] A man fishing in a remote area of Galveston’s West Bay known as Green’s Cut finds a plastic storage container on a marshy sand bar. Green’s Cut is [...]

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Starting off promisingly with Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” the soundtrack for We Own the Night immediately evokes a dark ’80s nightclub vibe. But with the inclusion of a second Blondie song (the painfully rhymed “Rapture), a few Louis Prima jazz tunes and then a sharp veer into Latin dance music and Wojciech Kilar’s [...]

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Buddhadeb’s Taliban Act   We must fight to protect our innocent people against looting and killing They had rendered great sacrifices in the past They are ready to render more sacrifices for the protection of their land and their ideology That was the Taliban in 2001 justifying its actions in the feudal wars of Afghanistan. [...]

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It appears that the Manhattan District Attorney and the United States Secret Service have dealt a significant blow to a Internet crime ring dealing in stolen credit card information, cybercrime and identity theft. The New York/New Jersey Electronic Crimes Task Force and a host of other agencies assisted in the investigation, also. From the DANY [...]

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The Perfect Day Scenario, ala: Glenn Beck, postulates that our school children could be the next target of terrorism. Proof? Check out what’s going on with our school buses. Hat tip Doug Ross. Ø On August 25, 2006, three unidentified males described as Middle Eastern entered the offices of a school bus sales and service [...]

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13 November 2007 On 14 January 2006, The Board of Trustees of Amherst College located in Amherst, Massachusetts, passed a resolution to divest all investments in multinational companies “identified as having direct business ties to the Sudanese government or companies whose business activities are in direct support of these companies and the activities of the [...]

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Over the last month there has been a donnybrook of sorts in the pages of the Wall Street Journal between Richard Nadler, the president of America’s Majority Foundation, and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona. At issue is exactly why Mr. Hayworth lost his last bid for reelection to the House of Representatives in 2006. [...]

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The new album from The Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden, is just one long, sustained attack on the integrity of the United States and is as bad as any loud-mouthed Dixie Chicks diatribe. With songs prosaically about Global Warming and the evil American “empire,” seemingly the only one of the band who just wanted [...]

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The San Francisco Chronicle decided to pat Californians on the back last week for how much “better informed” Golden Staters are on the supposed dire threat of global warming. With their headline joyously proclaiming, “Californians better informed on global warming threat, poll finds,” the SF Chron handed out the party hats, blew their celebratory horns [...]

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Call me old fashioned or even nostalgic but the Catholic Church has been going environmentally “green” for centuries. They are called “parishes.” Having grown up in the city of Philadelphia in the Irish-centric enclave called Gray’s Ferry…we were environmentally conscious and did not even know it. We walked to church, there was no need to [...]

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There used to be a television commercial that invoked the name of the financial planning conglomerate E.F.Hutton and when he spoke people…listened! Madison Avenue and its writers created this very effective ad campaign to illustrate the importance of relying on a sound financial advisor to plan for all of life’s events. We have a similar [...]

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Tucker’s Girlfriend Has Message on Social Site MySpace Shinnery Still Threatens to Sue Dog Drops Out of Sight Tucker Chapman’s girlfriend has a message for angry fans of Dog the Bounty Hunter: I’m not listening to you. Monique Shinnery’s MySpace page features the quotes “Hate All You Want But You Can’t Break The Girl Who [...]

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Abortion, gun control and gay marriage are the three most reliable issues that get conservative and religious “values voters” to turn out in the primaries. This election cycle, there’s another issue that trumps this unholy trinity: the global spread of Islamic fundamentalism (or Islamofascism, as some prefer). The Associated Press reports: † Televangelist Pat Robertson, [...]

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By Alfred and John Donovan of RoyalDutchShellPlc.com Tuesday 13 November 2007 Every day, a website operated by the authors of this article, www.royaldutchshellplc.com - described by the Financial Times as being “anti-Shell”, publishes secret documents relating to the oil giant Shell. Most are Shell internal documents. The confidential information being put into the public domain on the open [...]

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