Entries from November 2006

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of about 76,000 Troy-Bilt and Craftsman chain saws. It included this priceless [...]

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Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Andy Ihnatko pans the Microsoft Zune, competitor to the iPod. His bio reads simply, “Andy [...]

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There’s a counter in the newsroom that serves as a giveaway shelf — people put things there for others to [...]

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Not that many of you care, but just in case… I’ve got my webcam up and running again. It had [...]

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“Violence erupted at [insert name of mall here] as shoppers, some having been in line since 4:00 a.m., prepared to [...]

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In an opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor, Dinesh D’Souza argues that — to quote the headline — “Atheism, [...]

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And wrong!

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They’ve been waiting a couple of days already: The line for the Playstation 3 outside Roanoke’s Best Buy. This afternoon [...]

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At UCLA, campus police are apparently trained to use their tasers not as a non-lethal alternative to a firearm, but [...]

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The worst video game names ever.

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Most of us know that the Recording Industry Association of America has been suing thousands of people it claims have [...]

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When the Germans want to try you for war crimes, you know you’ve really crossed the line.

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So Ted Haggard, who was ousted by the New Life Church in Colorado Springs after confessing to “sexual immorality” with [...]

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Didja Know that the new Senate will have only one independent member? James Jeffords of Vermont is an indy, but [...]

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A black firefighter in L.A. won a $2.7 million lawsuit against the city because his co-workers fed him spaghetti with [...]

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Argh! I keep seeing this — news articles that say the GOP gets control of the Senate if Allen somehow [...]

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If the Dems and GOP end up in a 50-50 split of the Senate, Dick Cheney gets to cast the [...]

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Hmm… I wonder which family value this falls under. Via Kos: Tim Daly from Clarendon got a call saying that [...]

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Guess who’s making a comeback.

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Just in case you haven’t seen it mentioned: It only takes a simple majority vote in the House of Representatives [...]

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