Tuesday, September 30, 1997

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According to Forbes, the US now has 170 billionaires, up from 13 in 1982. Of course that was when a billion was really a billion. The price ...
Thursday, September 25, 1997

Not rocket scientists

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Muslim youths protest lunar eclipse LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuter) - Gangs of Muslim youths paraded through the streets of a northern Nigerian city...
Wednesday, September 24, 1997

In olden days a glimpse of stocking...

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The latest on the official list of Taliban no-no's: white socks on women. Sexually provocative. If you live in a cave, I guess. Those t...
Tuesday, September 16, 1997

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The headline of the day, from the LA Times: “2 Men Convicted of Smuggling Live Snakes in Their Underwear.” Hey, the LAPD just bought 600 M16...
Monday, September 15, 1997

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There was an interesting story in the Sunday NY Times about some Orthodox Jew in NY who got off light on a charge of insurance fraud because...
Saturday, September 13, 1997

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2 items from the Sunday Telegraph make me wish I could trust it enough to know how seriously to take them: one said that one of the witness...
Friday, September 12, 1997

Quotes of the day

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Jesse Helms, the king of ideological extortion, says "I do not yield to ideological extortion." Boris Yeltsin says that more than ...
Tuesday, September 09, 1997

Clinton's insurance, more

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A Washington Post article in Wednesday's paper goes a little ways towards answering my question of yesterday about what sort of insuran...

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A headline in the Telegraph says "EU Bans Dangerous Iranian Nuts". Pistachios, as it turns out. A guy who had his hand in a sock b...
Monday, September 08, 1997

Dumb as a potato

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Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) says the US Forest Service shouldn't recruit minorities in Idaho: "The warm-climate community just hasn...
Saturday, September 06, 1997

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Here's a heartwarmer: 16 Orthodox rabbis file a lawsuit to block the opening of a Holocaust museum in NY, because it will mention homose...
Friday, September 05, 1997

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If it weren't for the ongoing Saint Diana of Bulimia story, more attention would have been paid to the unveiling of the Willie Hortons o...
Thursday, September 04, 1997

Paparrazi with oil paints and canvas?

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In a piece on celebrity inspired by Saint Diana of Harrods, the NY Times informs us that John Quincy Adams exercised by swimming naked in th...
Tuesday, September 02, 1997

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The US is appealing the decision of an immigration judge to grant political asylum to a Thai Buddhist monk who the Thais previously asked to...
Friday, August 29, 1997

The Jewish gang problem in Alabama

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A piece in today's NY Times on my favorite wacky governor Fob James led me to check the Alabama ACLU site, where I found the following: ...
Sunday, August 24, 1997

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Interesting series beginning today in the LA Times on the failure of laws to control assault weapons. The first one is a little long to sen...
Friday, August 22, 1997

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Here's a quote that should sell a million tickets: "Demi Moore gives the performance of her career." The horror, the horror. ...
Monday, August 18, 1997

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A new election law is passed for Hong Kong. 1/3 of the seats will represent geographical constituencies, the rest will be elected by "...
Tuesday, August 12, 1997

Bring out your dead

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We mourn today the passing of Roger L. Zeller, noted in the NYT as a "Bowling Ball Innovator" for "revolutionizing bowling b...
Monday, August 11, 1997

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Bumper sticker: I'd rather be smashing imperialism. On a pretty snazzy car, I might add. "Copland" opens this week. A movie ...